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.
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Publications
Williams, Dilys (2024) Fashion Otherwise. International Journal Film and Media Arts, 9 (1). pp. 69-84. ISSN 2183-9271
Wallace, Niki and Mazé, Ramia and Williams, Dilys and Landin, Domenica (2024) Universities Undergoing Climate Transition: Developing MLP tools from a context- specific and critical standpoint. In: DRS2024, 24-28 June, Boston, US.
Wallace, Niki and Mazé, Ramia and Williams, Dilys and Landin, Domenica and Ng, Natascha (2024) UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Facilitation guide and toolkit. Project Report. University of the Arts London, London.
Wallace, Niki and Mazé, Ramia and Williams, Dilys and Landin, Domenica and Tuft, Niamh and Ng, Natascha (2024) UAL Climate Systems Mapping: Report on the pilot research project. Project Report. University of the Arts London, London.
Williams, Dilys (2024) Fashion, the City, and the Spectacle: Expanding the Role of the Designer. In: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design 2nd Edition. Routledge. ISBN 9781003365433
Williams, Dilys (2024) Mindsets of Possibility. In: Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design 2nd Edition. Routledge. ISBN 9781003365433
Williams, Dilys and Burcikova, Mila and Tuft, Niamh (2023) Mapping trends and best practice in climate action and sustainability in the arts. Technical Report. British Council & University of the Arts London.