The 4th graders of Fashion Design from Sustainable Fashion subject went to ECOFIRA on November the 30th to present their project of Codesign and Upcycling, the result of an agreement with the company Texlimca and ASIRTEX (Iberian Association of Textile Recycling). In addition, within these conferences Professor Amparo Pardo Cuenca, co-director of the project, presented a paper entitled “Educate for sustainability: towards a sustainable, circular and collaborative design thinking”.
This project, which reuses second-hand clothes, is the materialization of the agreement signed with the company Texlimca and ASIRTEX, and which has been directed by professors (co-designers) Amparo Pardo and Patrik Baldan.
The objective of the proposal was to create a collection of clothes from solid fashion waste, that is, second-hand garments that end up in Texlimca landfills. The design methodology combined co-design methods with upcycling supra-recycling strategies.
The traceability of the design process is undoubtedly an essential feature in the field of sustainability, which is why our project is shown not only as a result that ends with the materialization of a new fashion piece, but above all as a success that challenges the fast fashion industry, taking advantage of the waste generated by it (through consumers) to turn them into pieces with a new value.
This fact has been decisive, both in the post-design phases and in the pre-design phases, where co-creation methods have been used to facilitate the processes of empathy between co-designers (facilitators, generators and developers) and fashion waste.
The fact of working in the post-design phase with fashion waste enhances the value of these, transforming them into new clothes. It was not only a matter of giving them a second life, but above all of knowing how to manage the end of their lives, projecting new fashion pieces, most of the time, better than the first ones, since their aesthetic-creative and narrative qualities (storytelling), which are detached from them, extol their value, not only as objects of design but also as artistic objects.
The co-designers students involved in this project were: Adrián Moreno, Zulema Payá, Belen Ramis, Moisés López, Diana Imbachi, Ana Caselles, Claudia Tomàs, Irene Vila, Paula Catalá, Mª José Román, Eugènia Giménez, Inés Gisbert and Montse Corbi. The photography has been in charge of Professors Patrik Baldan and Amparo Pardo and the modeling was performed by Belen Calvo.
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