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Untold Stories of Overseen Materials
From May, 2024A collaborative creative practice that interrogates our relationship with everyday garments and the poetic potential of overlooked materials in daily life. Through a series of experimental workshops designed to invite playfulness and curiosity into creative practice, using humour, chance, and randomness to uncover the magic in the everyday and rethink the meaning we assign to ordinary objects. These experimental activities aim to reveal untold stories of unseen materials, extend the value of garments, and celebrate the democratic form of creativity in which participants becomes part of the design process. This hands-on approach aims to enhance our understanding of how objects influence our perceptions and interactions with the world.
The workshops are part of developing a manual as an open-source guide, created in collaboration with the creative community to foster a circular way of thinking through clothing reappreciation prompts and activities. The manual encourages shared values and diverse experiences, critiquing consumption in our material world and using ordinary materials to make meaningful contributions to fashion design.
Clothing Reappreciation Manual
Prepress sample #1
Presented at Melbourne Design Week 2024 at BETA By STH BNK.
Participants engaged in activating the first manual. Following activities such as creating glitter from an old woollen jumper, developing a new typography directory from industrial care labels, or noticing through simple movements.
1 Open source manual / zine loose pages
2 Melbourne Design Week documentation
Bending and noticing sequence ‘Jumper arm circles’
Clothing intervention ‘Making sense of nonsense’
Instructions for Care ‘Caring Label’
