Clothes: Reduce, Reuse, Redux
Course Description
Summary
A sustainable design process with found clothing
Every year, roughly 92 million tons of clothing end up in landfills. This course seeks to support students rescuing our cast-offs by upcycling fast fashion. Students will explore how to deconstruct garments, rethink their intention, and reconstruct them anew.
In an effort to reduce waste, students will ideate with their found materials and draw this redux collection with thoughtful intentionality toward a concise wardrobe. They will then build these designs, and the course will culminate with a showing of work at the end of class.
Materials will be provided to ensure accessibility/equibility to the course, but students are welcome and encouraged to bring items they are excited to reconceptualize.
NOTE: Students should be comfortable sewing by hand, and familiarity with sewing machines and sergers is encouraged.
Learning Outcomes
- Refine Design skills
- Dimensional problem solving
- Explore bodies in clothing and how to support dressing the body
- Challenge and grow sewing skills
- Greater understanding of materials
Cross List
- Drama