Dr Mila Burcikova
Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Research Development Lead, Centre for Sustainable Fashion
Mila’s research investigates alternatives to the current fashion system. Her current projects focus on the connections between fashion and agriculture, rural fashion systems, and the role of time and cyclical patterns in sustainable living. In addition, through her continuing ethnographic research on emotional durability of clothing, Mila develops her concept of ‘mundane fashion’. Mundane Fashion serves as a metaphor for a holistic understanding of how fashion’s deeply personal, cultural, social, and environmental implications are experienced in people's everyday lives.
Current projects
Future Fashion Landscapes
Publications
Burcikova, M. (2024). I Like It Because It's Been Worn Before: The Sensory Longevity of Worn Clothing. In. Niinimäki, K. (Ed.). Recycling and Lifetime Management in the Textile and Fashion Sector. CRC Press/Taylor&Francis, pp. 47-64.
Williams, D., Burcikova, M., Tuft, N. (2023). Mapping trends and best practice in climate action and sustainability in the arts. British Council & University of the Arts London, 45 pages.
Williams D., Burcikova, Buchan-Ng, M. (2021) Fashion as Sustainability in Action: A Guide for Fostering Sustainable Prosperity in Micro and Small Fashion Businesses, 199 pages.
Burcikova, Mila (2020). Mundane Fashion: Women, Clothes and Emotional Durability. PhD thesis, School of Art, Design and Architecture, University of Huddersfield, 573 pages.
Burcikova, M. (2019). One Dress: Shaping Fashion Futures through Utopian Thinking. Fashion Practice: The Journal of Design, Creative Process & the Fashion Industry, 11 (3). pp. 328-345.
Exhibitions
Burcikova, M., Turnbull, K. (2023). Colours of Seasons. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford and University of Oxford, The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. 29 November 2023 – 28 January 2024.
Burcikova, M. (2023). Life in Clothes. British Textile Biennial, Super Slow Way. Haworth Art Gallery, Accrington, Lancashire, 29 September 2023 – 29 October 2023.