ABSTRACT
During the courses of Textile and Fashion Design (directed by Prof. M.A. Sbordone), a team of students in collaboration with companies belonging to different territories (Kiton Donna and Cesare Attolini, Campania, South Italy; and Lanificio Leo, Calabria, South Italy) developed a creative ecosystem, where the phases of research and design alternated with those of knowledge, and analysis of possibilities of productive interaction between training and manufacturing systems. The criteria of environmental sustainability and valorisation of local productions were decisive; the choice of working on wool fabrics made with traditional techniques favoured the connection between production chains of inter-regional manufactures.
