CDinD: `Ethics and a socially responsible designer

Essentialist clothing, New York, N.Y.

Designer: Natalia Allen

World Economic Forum Young Global Leader and fashion designer Natalia Allen is challenging the fashion industry with a new line of clothing made in the USA by robots and designed to outlast a single season. Catering to the “slow purposeful shopper” each piece is crafted without seams from a single piece of sustainable, high-performance yarn.

Idea&Company

“Everything in excess is opposed by nature.” ― Hippocrates

They are purists and also artists and scientists. They obsess about perfectly proportioned clothes, beautiful textiles and great fit. They purposefully create clothes that combine our minimalist style, human-centric values and playful personality. Company make precise clothes from robots. The robots they use make each product seamlessly. The streamline process saves lots of fuel and textile waste, which is pretty neat. There clothes are simple because team think simplicity is powerful. They believe one well-made dress worn a thousand ways is modern and liberating.

Dattner Architects, New York, N.Y.

Dattner Architects’ foundation is civic architecture

Their diverse practice includes the planning and design of schools, offices, housing, healthcare, transportation, recreation and infrastructure for wide range of communities and clients. 

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Company believes that each project must belong to its place and time, tread lightly on the environment and inspire its users – and they have consistently sought to articulate these core values in all our work. Through their iterative design process the essential elements of a project are explored, articulated and defined. With each commission, they seek to push beyond conventional standards for sustainability, innovating high-performance approaches that align with each building program, site and resources.

Dattner Architects was commissioned to develop a conceptual design for a new Net Zero school, which on an annual basis would use no more energy than is provided by on-site renewable energy. A successful Net Zero design strategy prioritizes demand reduction through a systematic evaluation of building features beginning with the highest energy impact and lowest cost decisions.