Prof Dilys Williams
Director, Centre for Sustainable Fashion and Professor of Fashion Design for Sustainability
Dilys' research, design and teaching practice explores participatory and transformation design to realise fashion as sustainability in action.
Dilys is the founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion. Dilys' research and teaching practice draws on long-held design practices that connect fashion’s relational ecological, social, economic and cultural dimensions.
Engaging participatory and transformation design practices, her work shapes and contributes to the field of Fashion Design for Sustainability.
Current projects
Publications
Williams, Dilys (2018) Fashioned from Nature 1990 - Present. In: Fashioned from Nature. V&A Publishing, pp. 149-173.
Williams, Dilys (2018) Fashion Design as a Means to Recognize and Build Communities-in-Place. She-ji: The Journal of Design, Economics and Innovation. ISSN 2405-8726
Williams, Dilys (2017) Fashion, the city, and the spectacle. In: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design. Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, pp. 281-294. ISBN 978-1-138-65017-6
Williams, Dilys (2015) Fashion Design. In: Routledge Handbook of Sustainability and Fashion. Routledge, Oxon, UK, pp. 234-242. ISBN 0415828597
Williams, Dilys and Toth-Fejel, Katelyn (2017) The Will and the Skill in Education for Sustainability. In: Handbook of Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in Higher Education. Springer, pp. 79-94. ISBN 978-3-319-47876-0