Towards A Ch’ixi Fashion: Building Sustainable Futures In The Present
Bibliographic record
Abstract
<p>In this major research project I explore the transformative potential of fashion in implementing sustainable alternatives in the present. Through the use of a ch’ixi framework, the study employs a transformative arts-based approach integrated with a conversational methodology, and is broken up into three parts. In the first section, I put ideas borne out of a decolonial stance in conversation with notions of sustainability and circularity as found in fashion studies. In the second, I outline the work that went into creating QISU, a brand proposal where I explore upcycling as a sustainable design alternative positioned around ideas of respectful coexistence based on indigenous spiritual knowledge. In the last section, I discuss the prototypes created for QISU and explain how these can be considered as a prototype for building sustainable futures in the present. The import of this study is that it aims to contest a long history of colonial erasure by directly engaging indigenous perspectives around issues pertinent to scholars or practitioners interested in sustainability and in contributing to larger positive social change. </p>
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".