TED Lecture Impact Lectures 3

The End of the Life Cycle

reuse, recycle, restore

maximum conservation of resources:

1. avoidance and minimization buy nothing day on 27th November 2010
2. reuse ebay and charity
3. recycle repair, refurbish
4. recovery incineration and composting
5. disposal

cases studies: ask more about them at the TED department.some are names of things I liked but need to

• trigema biodegradable cotton T-shirt
• Korea, use of rice husks to create bricks for houses
• Slow fashion/ Fast fashion TYVEK
• grow fabric
• the un-cooled recycled extrude
• Holy McQuillan Blog
• Timorisannen Blog
• Local wisdom Project, stories of garment

Holly Berry

www.redesign.com

hollyberryideadesign.blogspot.com

re-think

re-create

re-design

re-educate

recycle

fast fashion: there is no point making textile that will last foreverif we are throwing it away.

the paper dress the invention

Albert Einstein
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.

TED Lecture Impact Lectures 2

The Middle of the Life Cycle

• Consumer use, emotionally durable design.
• Life cycle of a T- shirt:

• disposable paper dress, great response to through away fashion and over consumption, short life but can be recycled and re designed!
• replace the need to consume: make emotionally durable design, co-design
• promoting a cause, choose an issue to battle and promote your concept

artists and books:

Junky styling

Crowd Sourcing; catwalk genius

the uniform project

Katherine May

• use peoples old clothes to co-design quilts
• she works with three other designers sharing a studio- bricolage
• she used her groing up storie, her love with human cointact and interactions in her business, she created emotionally durable quilts
• Jonathan Chapman writings inspired her in doing something sustainable
• she got her idea already at university but only collected thing for it, and she looked at her old sketch book for her actual work
• recycling factory, in Italy she went and get off cuts
• during one exhibition the bricolage group were knitting and attracted a lot of attention, people want to talk to you when they see you doing something
• her inspiration: nine lives project and Becky Early, wedding dress project - up cycling

Digital Design:

BonBon Kakku sell your ideas

Spoon Flower design and print your own fabric

• computer art
• facilitator
• digital print as a bespoke

Digital print:

30% less water

45% less electricity

overall dye wastage

www.makeitdigital.blogspot.com