Join a Community

Team-working for climate resilience

We need to help each other in this time of great challenges. Becky loves nothing better than energetic engagement with international communities, to achieve meaningful impact with new ideas & approaches, in alignment with the specific challenges being faced. Currently Becky is active in several very exciting communities which she would love you to join or simply follow.

  • World Circular Textiles Day 2050 (WCTD2050)

    On 8 October every year the WCTD community celebrates progress. Become a signatory, enter a case study on our Knowledge Hub or host your own event.

  • Textile & Clothing Business Labs (TCBL)

    The TCBL community brings people together; labs all across Europe meet regularly & members carry out research on core themes, often through EU-funded projects.

  • EcoSystex

    Join the EcoSystex community of cutting-edge initiatives that define the future of biobased textile sustainability and circularity. Find out more via their live events and reports.

  • Circular by Design Innovation Festival, Ireland

    The Circular by Design Innovation Festival is part of Design Week Ireland & the CFA programme. It was set up primarily for the Irish textile & fashion design community.

  • Global Change Award, H&M Foundation

    If you have an idea you want to develop into a commercial reality, there are now lots of places you can apply for support. The GCA has an annual application round.

  • Climate Emergency Network (UAL)

    If you are staff or a student at UAL you can be part of this vibrant community of changemakers. We develop campaigns, actions & activities to show that the arts can, & must, respond to the climate & ecological emergency.

  • Design Research Society (DRS)

    The Design Research Society (DRS) is a learned society committed to promoting and developing design research. Designing Journal is the place where members publish.

  • The Design Journal & European Design Academy

    The Design Journal is a leading international peer-reviewed journal covering all aspects of design & its interdisciplinary practices. It is aligned to the European Academy of Design.

ADVISORY ROLES

Becky advises many organisations on a range of subjects. Click here to see her client list.

Industry Projects

  • Filippa K, Sweden (2016-2018)

  • Global Change Award (2015 - 2019)

  • Euracat, Spain (2019)

  • FIT Industry Summer School, New York (2016)

  • Garment Redesign Workshops

  • Sustainable Fashion Academy, Denmark (2012)

  • H&M (2011 - 2014)

Panels & Chairing

  • Chair: G7 panel on circular textile design (2025)

  • Chair: Herewear, project results, Bikini Berlin (2024)

  • Panel: Design, Materials & Making (2023)

  • Panel: Material Matters, London Design Festival (2024)

  • Panel: Berlin Fashion Week (2022)

  • Panel: Animate Materials, Royal Academy (2021)

  • Chair: CharioCity Project, online (2021-22)

  • Panel: Launch of the Mikaela Loach film, ReDress the Future (2021)

  • Panel: Global Change Awards, launch event (2015)

  • Panel: The Eco Sessions: Conscious Closet (2019)

  • Panel: Global Change Awards, Stockholm (2015)

  • Panel: Redress Forum, Hong Kong (2014)

  • Panel: Hybrid Talks, Stockholm School of Economics (2015)

  • Panel: Material Matters, London Design Festival (2023)

  • Chair: WCTD2020-2024

  • Chair: Circular Cultures, British Council (2020)

  • Chair: Ever & Again, Rethinking Recycled Textiles (2009)

Research Centre Leadership

  • Textiles Environment Design (TED) (1996 - 2017)

  • Textile Futures Research Centre (TFRC) (2010 - 2017)

  • Centre for Circular Design (CCD) (2017 - 2022)

20 years of TED

Between 1996 - 2016 Becky was lead researcher in a community of textile & material makers & researchers - Textiles Environment Design (TED) - at Chelsea, UAL. Watch the 5-minute highlights film by Sophie Politowicz to get a sense of the dynamism & vibrancy of this ideas-driven group.

Access Resources

Tools to support your ideas & actions

Becky’s goal here is to use her ideas & experience to inspire others to vision, ideate & act for climate emergency. Her ideas become actions & then become tools. You can now access her suite of tools and lessons for free. Be sure to watch the films in the methods & tools section. Then download the ones you need from here & get going!

  • How to BE

    A framework to help you reflect, project & plan as your whole, authentic, best self

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  • Cards: BIO TEN

    Design strategy cards to help you when designing biobased, local & circular clothing

    Click here

  • Cards: Circular Design

    Design strategy cards to help you think about circular materials, models & mindsets

    click here

  • Cards: The TEN

    Design strategy cards to help you consider sustainability from a holistic POV

    click here

  • Cards: Charity Shop Redesign

    Strategy cards to support educators when devising projects with charity shops

    click here

  • Cards: Mistra Future Fashion

    These ‘Outlook’ cards from Sweden highlight areas for future fashion research

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  • Cards: Green Values

    Cards developed by Dr Clara Vuletich that can be used to prompt solo & group reflection around big questions

    click here

  • Cards: Garment Cards

    These four garment cards can help focus your circular & sustainable thinking

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  • Worksheet: Garment Speedometer

    Use this fun worksheet to support discussion & ideation around time & wears

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  • Cards: Speeding Tickets

    Cards to help you do design thinking around product speeds

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  • Cards: Yes or No

    Print these off for your real life events to help the audience tell you what they think…

    click here

  • Worksheet: Storytelling Teamwork

    Use this worksheet to map out the key story telling moments & assign the team

    click here

  • Worksheet: Thinking Together

    A simple A4 to use during lectures and seminars to give your audience a moment to reflect

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  • Worksheet: Barriers to Opportunities

    How can you turn a barrier to progress into a creative opportunity?

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  • Worksheet: Garment Audit

    A worksheet to help you do a sustainability ‘audit’ on your existing textile product

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  • Product Canvas: Garment Redesign

    Use this sheet to plan your freshly redesigned textile product

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  • Worksheet: Redesign Score

    Use this list to ‘score’ as a team ideas you have thought of to make improvements

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  • Worksheet: Garment Lifecycle

    Use this simple lifecycle sheet to map out the essential elements to designing for circularity

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  • Worksheet: Garment Redesign

    A simple one pager to note the current textile item and list the changes to make

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  • Instructions: The Burn Test

    Learn this simple trick to find out whats in your textiles

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  • Instructions: Who Made My Uniform?

    Work in a school with the kids, parents and teachers to find out more about the uniform

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  • Instructions: Wardrobe Insights

    Use your own wardrobe to reflect on fashion and textiles that work well for you, and not so well.

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Contact Me…

Reach out using this form if you are interested in working with Becky on projects - ideation, planning, delivery & assessment - or if you want to find out more about a particular aspect of her practice.