Project description DEENESFRITPL Tailor-made and fashionable garments of the future Over the last century, many of the processes in clothing manufacturing and retail have remained the same despite the emergence of new technologies. There is a real need for change in how clothes are designed, made and delivered – such a change that will bring added value, quality and environmental benefits. Contributing to this, the EU-funded MYCLOTH project aims to develop the next-generation computer-aided design tools for professionals in the textile and garment industry. The project's work will lead to algorithms and software that will aid the transition from mass-produced clothing in standardised sizes to custom-tailored garments that will optimally fit an individual's body measurement. Show the project objective Hide the project objective Objective Clothing is a fundamental and indispensable part of human existence, and dressing people has tremendous societal, economical, and environmental impact. The digital technological revolution has not yet achieved its full potential in the garment manufacturing and retail domain, where many of the processes remain essentially unchanged for a century. In addition, the “fast fashion” approach of selling large volumes of garments at very low prices and changing collections very frequently leads to significant waste of natural and human resources: according to recent research nearly 50% of all manufactured garments are imminently destined for landfill or incineration. A fundamental, radical change is required to the way clothes are designed, manufactured and delivered to consumers, generating value and attachment via quality instead of quantity and curbing toxic overproduction. The goal of this project is to bring transformative technological advances in geometric modeling and optimization of personalized, custom-fitted and fabricable garments in order to crucially support this change. To reach our goals, we must break away from traditional shape representations and modeling pipelines and develop a dedicated mathematical and algorithmic foundation for digital cloth and garment modeling. Our envisioned theoretical basis of the digital garment shape space will on the one hand facilitate a novel interactive modeling framework to support apparel designers in the creative task of template garment design in a reality-faithful manner, and on the other hand serve as the enabling foundation for automated, algorithmic garment personalization to perfectly fit any human body model. In stark contrast to current practice of standardized confection sizes, our framework will enable on-demand fabrication of custom-tailored clothing while being inclusive of the full diversity range of human shapes, and anticipate the proliferation of digital garment fabrication technology. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutionsengineering and technologymaterials engineeringtextilesengineering and technologyenvironmental engineeringwaste managementwaste treatment processes Programme(s) H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme Topic(s) ERC-2020-COG - ERC CONSOLIDATOR GRANTS Call for proposal ERC-2020-COG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme ERC-COG - Consolidator Grant Coordinator EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Net EU contribution € 2 000 000,00 Address Raemistrasse 101 8092 Zuerich Switzerland See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00 Beneficiaries (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by Net EU contribution Expand all Collapse all EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH Switzerland Net EU contribution € 2 000 000,00 Address Raemistrasse 101 8092 Zuerich See on map Region Schweiz/Suisse/Svizzera Zürich Zürich Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Participation in EU R&I programmes Opens in new window HORIZON collaboration network Opens in new window Other funding € 0,00
