TED Group helps me to
develop my thoughts in about sustainability design and explore the TED-Ten
strategies with the Research Reading Group. For my own research project, i want to explore and develop
areas which are in the main-filed of design to minimise waste and Replace the
Need to Consume, as well as understanding the others design strategies.
What was ‘wasted’ in the past and still is,
also relates to art and design historic information useful for fashion and
textiles. I am going to reduce, reuse and eliminate waste for fashion and
textiles products. I will also be rethink recycled textiles and materials and
explore some technologies for a ‘second life’ products in my study practice. My practice is concerned
with our throwaway attitude and question how we can solve this situation by
making long-lasting products for consumer needs.
Perhaps
we should pay more attention to where materials end-up, choosing materials and
manufacturing methods that generate a more circular flow. We should really
consider about design process and materials used, and also understanding what
does consumer exactly wanted and needed? My aims are to use historical arts and
crafts as inspiration as well as using contemporary textile technologies with fabrics
in good condition and reusable materials to produce a good range of long
lasting products.
Looking
at Edwardian times, I am borrowing the idea of detachable collars and cuffs to
inform with our fast changing behaviour. If people keep jewellery pieces and pass them
on as antiques, why not use collars and cuffs in the contemporary context? Can
they be a long life objects, same as the preservation of traditional crafts –a
collection box of easily-removed, long-lasting garment based-accessories. (Which come with matching clothing, and with
different outfits in a package, to include caring, replacing and repairing
services)
Then, my focus is to reuse
post-industrial and post consumer textiles, and give value through another
life. I would like to widen the choices of the materials for the new range of collars
and cuffs as adornments so that people can keep them for a long time and
express their own sense of fashion.
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