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Solve is an award winning multi-disciplinary social innovation studio in design and sustainability. We create products & services that we wish existed, as we believe that design has an added value to the world, apart from aesthetics.
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WORK WITH CRISTINA: WORKSHOPS, LECTURES, KEYNOTES
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Cristina continuously challenges people to think differently about designing our world, trough workshops, lectures or keynotes that are based on her experience and work through SOLVE, her social innovation studio in design and sustainability. She is the perfect public speaker to inspire your audience and stimulate their imagination in order to design a sustainable future.
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REFASHION CIRCULAR DESIGN STRATEGY
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CIRCULAR FASHION DESIGN
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CO-DESIGNING OUR WORLD: CIRCULAR DESIGN
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Tailored lectures, workshops and keynotes can be developed according to your needs. Please reach out via the form at the end of this page to discuss more.
"Design has an added value to the world, apart from aesthetics." |
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Cristina is a pioneer contextual fashion designer, researcher, lecturer and social entrepreneur with a strong vision on the circular clothing of tomorrow and the added value it will bring to our everyday lives. She was trained at VIA Design University in Denmark, has an MA in Leadership for Sustainability from Malmö University in Sweden, with a background also in circular economy and biomimicry.
In 2014, she started a new life phase in design, as she wished to develop her work based on design thinking and circular economy principles, with an interdisciplinary approach. The goal was to establish a new design process that would bring more value to the user and the environment; it would address not only aesthetics but key environmental and societal needs as well. The unique mix of skills in leadership, design thinking, circular economy and biomimicry has led her to create a more conscious and sustainable design, as she believes that design has an added value to the world apart from aesthetics. The manifestation of this is SOLVE, the social innovation studio in design and sustainability, of which Cristina is the founder of. In 2016 she designed the world's first circular and multifunctional fashion collection - Omdanne. Her work has been published multiple times in international publications such as Forbes or Designboom, and in 2019 she was awarded the Silver A' Design Award in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Category by the International Design Academy in Italy. Cristina is always looking to scale the impact of her knowledge and help create new agents of change. She is a guest lecturer at VIA Design University in Denmark and Malmö University in Sweden, and has collaborated with other universities in Scandinavia. Among other projects, she is one of the founders of the Sustainable Business Design & Entrepreneurship HUB, a learning hub for sustainable innovations within the fashion & lifestyle industry dedicated to students and teachers at VIA Design University. Form follows feeling. |
Publications
Dan, C., Ciortea, A., Mayer, S. (2022). The Refashion Circular Design Strategy — Changing the Way We Design and Manufacture Clothes. Manuscript in preparation.
Dan, C. (SOLVE). in Vezzoli, C., Conti, G. M., Macrì, L., & Motta, M. (2022). Designing Sustainable Clothing Systems. Politecnico di Milano. Franco Angeli.
Dan, C. in Global Solutions - The World Policy Forum (2022). Intersecting. Bending the Linear Economy on Global Value Chains.
Dan, C. and Østergaard, T. (2021). Circular fashion: The New Roles of Designers in Organizations Transitioning to a Circular Economy. The Design Journal, DOI:10.1080/14606925.2021.1936748
Dan, C. and Østergaard, T. (2021). Circling Round Circular Change. Paper presented at the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Denmark.
Dan, C. (SOLVE) in Blum, P. (2021). Circular Fashion. Laurence King Publishers.
Chapter Dan, C. and Østergaard, T. (in press). From vision to practice in Design Educations for Sustainable Development and Circular Economy. In R. T. Clausen & A. L. Bang (Eds.). Building Better Business – Designing New Futures: New Sustainable Path in Design and Business Education. Denmark: Frydenlund Academic.
Dan, C. in A’ Design Award & Competition (2019). Winner Designs 2018-2019, Award Winning Product Design. Designer Press.
Dan, C. (2017). Clothing that creates zero-waste while discouraging consumption through user-participatory design: Omdanne. Paper presented at Circular Economy International Conference, Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus BSS University, Herning, Denmark.
Dan, C. (SOLVE). in Vezzoli, C., Conti, G. M., Macrì, L., & Motta, M. (2022). Designing Sustainable Clothing Systems. Politecnico di Milano. Franco Angeli.
Dan, C. in Global Solutions - The World Policy Forum (2022). Intersecting. Bending the Linear Economy on Global Value Chains.
Dan, C. and Østergaard, T. (2021). Circular fashion: The New Roles of Designers in Organizations Transitioning to a Circular Economy. The Design Journal, DOI:10.1080/14606925.2021.1936748
Dan, C. and Østergaard, T. (2021). Circling Round Circular Change. Paper presented at the International Conference on Engineering and Product Design Education, Denmark.
Dan, C. (SOLVE) in Blum, P. (2021). Circular Fashion. Laurence King Publishers.
Chapter Dan, C. and Østergaard, T. (in press). From vision to practice in Design Educations for Sustainable Development and Circular Economy. In R. T. Clausen & A. L. Bang (Eds.). Building Better Business – Designing New Futures: New Sustainable Path in Design and Business Education. Denmark: Frydenlund Academic.
Dan, C. in A’ Design Award & Competition (2019). Winner Designs 2018-2019, Award Winning Product Design. Designer Press.
Dan, C. (2017). Clothing that creates zero-waste while discouraging consumption through user-participatory design: Omdanne. Paper presented at Circular Economy International Conference, Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus BSS University, Herning, Denmark.
Conferences, exhibitions & awards
2022 / Circular Talk / Speaker / Lund University, Circle Centre Lund; Collect and Affect / LUND, SWEDEN
2021 / Circular Fashion: Making the Fashion Industry Sustainable / Speaker / Fashion and Textile Museum / LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
2020 / International Good Design Exhibition / Exhibitor / Museo del Design MOOD / ITALY
2019 / A' Design Award / Silver in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Category / International Design Academy / COMO, ITALY
2019 / Changemakers in Retail Conference / Speaker / Retail Trends Media / UTRECHT , THE NETHERLANDS
2019 / FashionTech Works / Residency / 1 week / United Fashion EU, Creative Europe Programme; FlandersDCforFashion / ANTWERP, BELGIUM
2019 / Conscious Fashion Week / Speaker / AARHUS, DENMARK
2019 / Romanian Design Week / Exhibitor / Main Exhibition, BCR building / BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
2019 / Lund University - The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics / Speaker / LUND, SWEDEN
2019 / VIA Professors Circular Competency Course / Speaker / VIA University / HERNING, DENMARK
2018 / Future of Fashion & Technology / Exhibitor / MAS Museum Antwerp / With Jasna Rok, Marina Toeters, Maartje Dijkstra / ANTWERP, BELGIUM
2018 / Unleash Your Sustainable Thinking / Speaker / Storm / MALMÖ, SWEDEN
2017 / Circular Economy International Conference / Speaker / Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus University / DENMARK
2016 / Sylab / Residency / 12 months / IKAST, DENMARK
2016 / Sustainability in Fashion / Speaker / Dansk Mode & Textil / DENMARK
2016 / VIA University Teacher's Conference on Sustainability / Speaker / VIA University / DENMARK
2021 / Circular Fashion: Making the Fashion Industry Sustainable / Speaker / Fashion and Textile Museum / LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM
2020 / International Good Design Exhibition / Exhibitor / Museo del Design MOOD / ITALY
2019 / A' Design Award / Silver in Sustainable Products, Projects and Green Design Category / International Design Academy / COMO, ITALY
2019 / Changemakers in Retail Conference / Speaker / Retail Trends Media / UTRECHT , THE NETHERLANDS
2019 / FashionTech Works / Residency / 1 week / United Fashion EU, Creative Europe Programme; FlandersDCforFashion / ANTWERP, BELGIUM
2019 / Conscious Fashion Week / Speaker / AARHUS, DENMARK
2019 / Romanian Design Week / Exhibitor / Main Exhibition, BCR building / BUCHAREST, ROMANIA
2019 / Lund University - The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics / Speaker / LUND, SWEDEN
2019 / VIA Professors Circular Competency Course / Speaker / VIA University / HERNING, DENMARK
2018 / Future of Fashion & Technology / Exhibitor / MAS Museum Antwerp / With Jasna Rok, Marina Toeters, Maartje Dijkstra / ANTWERP, BELGIUM
2018 / Unleash Your Sustainable Thinking / Speaker / Storm / MALMÖ, SWEDEN
2017 / Circular Economy International Conference / Speaker / Department of Business Development and Technology at Aarhus University / DENMARK
2016 / Sylab / Residency / 12 months / IKAST, DENMARK
2016 / Sustainability in Fashion / Speaker / Dansk Mode & Textil / DENMARK
2016 / VIA University Teacher's Conference on Sustainability / Speaker / VIA University / DENMARK
In the press
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