Circular Open Source Fashion#

October 1th, 2024

Zoe Romano and Claudia Simonelli

In this class the lecture will outline the systems behind fashion and the textile industry, focusing on alternative systems such as circular fashion, agile fashion, open value chains.

The focus will be on creating modular elements, structures and connections that allow the user to change the shape of a garment, resize it or replace certain elements. Students will publish their creations on open source platforms and learn how to monitor and promote their creations in a distributed network.

Program outline#

Intro teacher
Circular fashion
Hacking the fashion system
Agile fashion
Modular elements
Modular seams
References
Tools/software

2D Drawing software#

illustrator, rhino3d & grasshopper
valentina project
openfitlab
laser cutter

Materials#

sealing textiles, synthetic textiles that melt and seal the edges of the cut outs vegetable tanned leather (chrome tanned leather is toxic when heated) felt, natural and synthetic (preferably pla or other biodegardable felts) neoprene (check for composition that no toxic particle/fumes will be released when heated)