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To Andy: Emotional Design Manifesto response

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To Andy: Emotional Design Manifesto response

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hi Andy,   thank you for sharing your Emotional Design Manifesto video. Your research and thinking is excellent and the examples you found communicate your thoughts eloquently.  Phenomenology is a subject I also been interested in for sometime.  Perhaps you might be familiar with the book The Eyes of the Skin by Juhani Pallaasma? https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/rtf-fresh-perspectives/a1431-book-reviews-the-eyes-of-the-skin-by-juhani-pallasmaa/

You might also like this concept:  https://www.designboom.com/design/torafu-architects-gold-wedding-ring/

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Print out of a piece torn off from our currency

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Print out of a piece torn off from our currency

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Textile pattern production and what i used

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Textile pattern production and what i used

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abstract using acrylics

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This is a project that my mother did few years ago (I helped her with cutting and sticking) using plastic bottles that we collected over the years at home. This is an artistic way of upcycling that can be applied in my future projects.

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material choice (Andy)

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Tag information drawing ideas

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I have these scarves hanging around for many years. I barely wear them, I just find them interesting and how there is a clash in texture, prints, sizes and colors. So it would be interesting if I could experiment in combining these textures into one piece. Since I already explored in denim items, under a main title "minimalism". So I think it would be interesting to get into a world of a variety of textiles. It would also be interesting if the zero waste is applied as a technique. Because while upcycling the denim items I had to remove some of the fabric.

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So I started by creating a slit in the paper for the neckline. Then I started to play around with the folding to wrap it around the body. I then I thought about the slits for the arms to pass through.

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I printed it on a yellow A4 paper

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When I was young I used to always do origami with my mother, so it was really interesting using this technique to make garments out of it.
I did this coat out of a square and I cut it in the middle for the head and neck, and from the back there's like a hood.
FRONT                                         BACK

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This Second one was a bit less random, I tried creating somewhat of a coat, and I created slits for the arms to fit in.
I also did try making a bottom piece but it wasn't so successful..

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This first one was a bit random, but I did think of how I can fit my 2D miniature mannequin in my dress.
I used an A6 rectangle of paper to create the collage without cutting off anything except creating slits to fit the mannequin.

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I believe in creating a service, because if you want to incite change and reach higher audience, we should create a service where the customer is as interactive with the surroundings as possible. Not to mention, the inclusivity and the non-bias treatment of the user. So by that service, we could engage in exchanging pieces with one another. (just like this modular designed). Different garment composition (sleeve, collar, buttoning tab, half front, half back...) where the users will be able to mix and match and play around with the garment as a puzzle piece . As for the picture, it is a reference of how the service would be, as if I'm sharing part of my self with others, just like these half-heart necklaces.

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A Modular Anrealage Silhouette Through Blocks.

“For the Autumn-Winter 2020 collection from Anrealage, the initial spark was blocks. Colorful, modular, and endlessly ready to be rearranged and played with.”

This approach ultimately expands the life cycle of the garment. Where it is modular and the user can have multi-functional outcomes and thereby reducing the mass consumption due to the variety within one garment.

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Ever since I was a little girl, Biology was my favorite subject at School. Growing up I would always say "I want to study Biology in University and pursue a career related to Biology." However, look where I am now majoring Fashion Design; thus, discovering BioCouture was very intriguing as it is an experiment that is related to Biology. Finding such an innovation really inspired me to experiment with it in my future designs. As it is not only very light and sensitive to the eye but also sustainable and biodegradable.

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Material Choice:

SUZANNE LEE’s garment – which uses these growing textiles – is the ‘biocouture’ jacket made from cellulose. Instead of coming from plants, the cellulose is produced by millions of tiny bacteria grown in bathtubs of sweet green tea

"The cradle to grave concept looks at something we use and considers every step of production and disposal; mining or farming raw materials, the processes used to convert raw materials into something that can be used, transportation costs, carbon footprint and the ease of disposal. Looking at the entire life cycle of a substance gives us a complete picture of its sustainability, disposability and total environmental impact.

For the textiles industry, this is illuminating. Cotton is a natural product but it uses vast amounts of water to grow and process it. So although it is a natural product its use has a huge negative impact on our environment. Man-made, synthetic fabrics like polyester, come from fossil fuels and are one of the biggest sources of microplastic pollution. Their manufacture and the fact they don’t degrade mean their environmental impact is significant and negative.

These facts are what is driving the biocouture movement. What if we could grow our fabrics in a small vat rather than use vast fields for cotton or mine petrochemicals? What if there was virtually no processing needed at all – no bleaching, chemical processes or washing? What if they could be produced where they are needed without being transported halfway across the globe? What if after we had finished with the clothes we could simply compost them into 100% non-toxic organic matter we can simply add to our veg patch?"

From: https://www.thegirl.co.uk/what-is-biocouture/

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i would use cactus vegan leather in my designs as a contribution in saving animal biodiversity and reducing the impact of animal cruelty. Not only this , using the cactus vegan leather would contribute in different aspects of sustainibility since it is an organic material that would biodegrade if later it was disposed into nature and i would love if my designs could have a positive impact on nature and sustainability in a way or anoher.

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This Prada example could inspire a second trial for my design. Where I would search for similar textiles used that are eco-friendly in order to reproduce the same design quality with a sustainable approach

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cactus leather as material approach:

cactus leather is a newly developed fabric that is made up of organic leather in mexico by a brand named " Desserto". The leather is madeup of cactus which is an organic material that after harvesing it, it regenerates quickly. not to mention that the amount of cactus used does not affect the amount of cactus cultivated where only 3 leaves of cactus are used to create 1 whole meter of cactus leathe and the regrowth of these leaves does not take more than 5 to 6 months.
thus using cactus leather is considered to be sustainable since it helps in maintaining the animal biodiversity and saving the animals that are being killed to manufacture leather goods

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Material Approach:

I specifically chose this example since it is great to see this product being reproduced with a sustainable approach utilizing re-nylon. What is interesting about this Prada example is that the sustainable approach in manufacturing this material does NOT meddle with the quality of the design.

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SUS Lecture slides - from Lilia and Katelyn

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SUS Lecture slides - from Lilia and Katelyn

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It was lovely to meet you all today.  Here are the presentation slides.

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Write a written reflection about how you could learn from this example AND apply it to your own design work. Add this final post to the cluster of your posts.

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Research Links to get you started:
Bethany Williams https://www.notjustalabel.com/bethany-williams

Birdsong
https://birdsong.london/

Fashion Revolution discussion of fair trade fashion
https://www.fashionrevolution.org/why-we-wear-fair-trade/

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Research Links to get you started:
Centre for Circular Design https://circulardesign.org.uk/

Sarah Mower's Vogue review of Duran Lantink's AW2021RTW
https://www.vogue.com/fashion-shows/fall-2021-ready-to-wear/duran-lantink

Ellen Macarthur Foundation https://www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/

Think Lifecycle

https://www.thinklifecycle.com/index.html

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Research Links to get you started:
Common Objective

https://www.commonobjective.co/article/how-to-choose-the-most-eco-friendly-fabric-for-your-garment

The Sustainable Angle Future Fabrics Expo

https://thesustainableangle.org/future-fabrics/

Sustainable Fashion Collective

https://www.the-sustainable-fashion-collective.com/

Fashion for Good Resource Library

https://fashionforgood.com/news/resource-library

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Choose one of the 3 design approaches we've discussed and use the key words to do your own research. Find sustainable fashion examples that fit within this design approach. Add the link or image in a post and write about why you find it an interesting example. Move this post to the same area as your last two posts.

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Hello,
My Spring 2021 project was done out of one meter of fabric and just one geometric shape then drapped on the body in a way to have the minimum amount of stitches. i wanted through this project to see what can i create out of one geometric shape, or if a brush stroke was a garment what would that garment be?
This process made me not have to cut pattern that causes extra waste.
No fabric straps or waste was reduced out of this project.

Thank you!
Looking forward for this workshop

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I’ve recently worked on a couple of pieces for our design course that were made from an already existing scuba suit . I think this helps with sustainability since we are repurposing an already existing piece .

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Now aside from university work, My love for sewing pushes me to keep working and creating new garments at home.

Every time I sew something, I always save my scraps, in hope that I'll use them for something later on, rather than discarding them.

In addition, I never allowed any of my family members to throw out old/ damaged clothes, as I save them, deconstruct them, and use their fabric for my personal work.

I have some projects in mind but I still haven't had the time to work on these personal projects.

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Carla Abboud_ Fashioning Human Body Motion.

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Carla Abboud_ Fashioning Human Body Motion.

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This is my most recent work, which unfortunately has no direct relation to sustainability.
Although I am quite interested in sustainability , I never had the chance to really apply it in my work, as I felt that it would limit my creativity, especially that I was still in my first year.

In the work below, we were obliged to use denim and jersey as fabrics.
My take on that was "bringing dance into everyday life"
Taking the denim fabric as part of everyday life,  and the jersey fabric which is a stretchy material that works and moves with the body, and merging them together.

On a side note, I must mention that i did create a lining inside my jacket, mainly for comfort and to avoid irritation of the skin from the denim jacket.
I did not consider this earlier, and therefore I had no fabric for the lining, so I ended up deconstructing two t-shirts, and piecing them up to cover the whole pattern, in order to add my lining.

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During the first semester of fashion which was last fall, my project was all about sustainability and had a story behind it which is : that a fishermen while performing his fishing task, most of the times catches and encounters plenty of litter daily in the ocean, so my idea was basically that these trash that the fisherman finds can turn to be something interesting, and why not make garments for them with them? So what I did was got some nylon and plastic bags and plenty of other food wrappings and some aluminium foils and ironed them on PVC fabric and waterproof fabric and created this interesting piece. I also hand knitted a styling piece which was the shown hat also using the same materials. In addition to the hand bag also made by pvc and the other mentioned materials!
I really enjoy ornamenting but through sustainability always !

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Hello!
So before we start the current semester, which was around 3 weeks ago, I was at the mall, and was wandering around and I was attracted by a shop that sells boho bags and garments. This I came and took a look at the clutches, and I examined them and directly went home, got a burlap Indian rice bag at home and I cut it and got some fabric scraps and a bit of ornaments I had at home and made one for me :)
Sustainable, and fun to make !

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Hello there!

The most recent work was in FD2. I decided to take the concept of abrasion. Rather than tearing up the fabric to show abrasion , i decided to take it into conceptually layers that are separated with the most minimal stitching.

I am interested in technology's way of aiding less waste so,  I decided to create a virtual museum for marketing my product which automatically creates less waste and makes it accessible to everyone.

Thank you,

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Hello, Nagham El Khoury here, and this is the closest worked project i have in relation to sustainablility. To keep it short and simple these series of THRIFTED flannel shirts were UPCYCLED into a bizarre looking dress. Now this is just the draped version of what it would look like, executed, as experimentation but I have not taken that path  afterall. Upon hypothetical execution, this dress was meant to serve a variety of finishings to be worn in through the inner workings and through pattermaking and sewing skills we have acquired so far, such as several arm holes for different results. This garment advocates to sustainablilty by extending the market life of 3 pieces and refurbishing its target audience. I would hope my future designs are extensively more sustainable than my current and I am willing to learn about all the nooks and crannies on how to get there.

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Hi,
For the Spring 2021 and in my Fashion design II course, we looked through the history of denim and jersey. What actually interested me through the history of denim and jersey, was the mass production and the over consumption of denim specifically . And after a great amount of research, I wanted to address the process of upcycling. I created flyers and shared the news on different media sources. I ended up with around 30 pairs of old, small, large... pairs of jeans.

This clearly depicts how much waste comes out of our garments that actually have a chance to be revived.
With one pair of jeans I was able to create a  Romper.

And with the other 2 white pairs I was able to create the dress.

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Hello!!
In Spring 2021 semester we had to work on two fabrics Denim and Jersey and to study their history. Thus, this led me to the relation between the lines and curves presented in the fabrics to the well-known Art Deco. I got inspired from the Art Deco movement which represents a style that is sleek, linear, and geometric. I tried to show the features of Art Deco style through my garments with a “streamlined” look. Moreover, in order to make denim and jersey stiff and give it this structural feel I did some fabric manipulation and experimented with gluing Denim and Jersey. The fabrics then became just like paper as shown in the below images.

Looking forward for the workshop! :)

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hellooo
i am fadia
for the spring semester and during my Fashion Design II course i tried to delve into utilitarian wear and as part of the research and inspiration i looked into armor wear and expanded from it to what you can see in the pictures
as part of the process i deconstructed a backpack inorder to ingrate the forms of the backpack in the design and the final product included a multi-use "armor" that can become a backpack that holds diffrent items of your choice and detachable sleeves of armor's undergarment that can also fit in the backpack   As part of fabric manipulation , i tried to make denim water proof by using diffrent layers of wax that provides denim with an insulating layer to water.

In parallel, i was working on creating a manifesto in my Fashion Studies course and my take on sustainibility was through creating simple cuts,using abstract patterns and having using zero waste garments.

thrilled to start the workshop !!!

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Hello!
through out the semester I was working on my manifesto and I was working on the importance of emotional design. I m still developing my manifesto constantly. the designs you see below are a close representation of my the way I would like to design, which is always linked to emotions.
as I was a kid, I suffered from scoliosis and used to wear a brace, I used to feel ashamed and wear multiple layers above it to try as much as possible to hide it. I try to recreate my medical corset into a sexy garment with it's utilitarian value. I chose to design a cape as an upper layer that covers everything and a complementary hood to the shape of corset.

in my manifesto, my take on sustainability is to create a garment that ages well with the choice of material. It leaves traces behind it and create a certain emotional connection with the user which won't throw it away easily :)
the idea is still to be developed.

so exited for the workshop!

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