CO-LAB

Co-Lab is a collaborative research and development initiative exploring how industrial remade infrastructure for fashion and textiles could operate in practice.

The initiative builds on earlier development work carried out with collaborators across software, production engineering, and modular process design.

Current Focus

At its current stage, Co-Lab focuses on research, pilot development, and partnership building.

Current research focuses on three questions:

• Which garments are technically and economically feasible for remade production?
• How must products be designed to enable future remanufacturing?
• What infrastructure would allow industrial remade systems to operate at scale?

Current Exploration — Hospitality Textile Systems

As part of the co-lab, we are currently exploring hospitality textile systems through an applied pilot using hotel slippers as an entry product.

The project investigates how post-use textile materials and hospitality waste streams could move through future remade infrastructures between reuse and recycling.

Rather than treating hotel slippers as an isolated product issue, the exploration uses them as a practical system test to examine broader questions around:

• material recovery and remade production
• repairability and product responsibility
• textile waste infrastructure
• documentation and traceability (EPR / DPP)
• circular hospitality systems

The current visuals and concepts are part of an early speculative and applied research exploration combining design, material systems thinking and circular infrastructure questions.

We are currently interested in connecting with hospitality, textile, recycling and research partners interested in future circular textile systems and applied pilot collaborations.

Research Approach

Insights from advisory work and studio remade feasibility studies feed into the long-term development of shared infrastructure models.

Long-Term Aim

The long-term aim is to support industrial remade systems that extend the life of garments and textiles before fibre-to-fibre recycling becomes the final step.

The initiative also examines how remade systems could respond to regions affected by global textile surplus, where repair, remade, and value recovery already play an important role.

Co-Lab is currently open to research partnerships, applied pilot collaborations and institutional exchange around future remade systems and circular textile infrastructure.