Montag, 14. Mai 2012

Making and sharing

Download and make :) After a successufl test-phase in the first workshop, I would like to share the pattern and instructions how to make your own tunic. 
The intention is, to research the possibilities of motivating consumer behaviour towards sustainability, by enabling the consumer with new skills to become active users and creators. The target group at the Recycling Fare was rather aware of the fact that there is plenty of material waste that needs to be reused, but the average participant did not think much about their possible impact. In fact, the half-way approach is not meant to be solely recycling design in the sense of using waste to generate new. In my opinion it is closer located in the area between customised clothing of the user, with partly design by designer and combined with the skills of the user. In this setting, all was produced locally in Helsinki, which was clarified in the small fill out-labels which I attached in the garments. The workshop and the half-way clothing item is designed to make it together. Either with the help of Designers, or with friends and family. This aspect I wish to emphasize by sharing pattern and instructions on this blog. For this reason I kindly ask everyone who is downloading the pattern to give me feedback and sends me an image of the process, or tunic variation they have completed. I would be very glad to see and hear your stories. Please email to al.hirscher(at)gmail.com

Of course there are several variations possible. Get some inspiration with the attached images and instructions. Also various levels of difficulty are included. For more info please download the Make{able} posters here:

 Or a booklet with photographs and very detailed explanations can be found when following this link:
 
The Pattern for the Tunic 02 can be found here: Tunic_02 download


Keine Kommentare:

Kommentar veröffentlichen