REDESIGNING WASTE: POCKET POLITICS
SUN 3 MAR 3:00PM
Coates Community Arts, Melbourne
WORKSHOP
Be guided through the process of creating your own Future Archive attachable pocket bag from a fresh selection of the finest textile trash. Learn introductory sewing machine skills to take home and make your own wardrobe interventions.
Light refreshments and all materials provided. Each participant will take home their completed pocket, a Future Archive attachable pocket pattern to make further pockets, and sewing skills to continue making. Pockets not completed during the workshop can be left for completion and collected 1-2 weeks later.
Sunday 3 March: 3:00 - 6:00pm
Tickets from $60
**This event is independently produced by Future Archive and forms part of our Independent Programme.
ABOUT THE ORGANISERS
Future Archive is the research-based fashion practice of RMIT Fashion Design (Honours) graduate Melanie Read. Through the act of archiving discarded fashion items, Future Archive challenges consumer culture and explores opportunities to keep textile waste in circulation. This practice looks to history to relentlessly question why things are the way they are — to speculate how design might be approached differently. The project can be divided into parts — research, collecting, documenting, and archiving — all of which then come together to inform a process of redesigning waste to create new outcomes. Using this framework notions of circular production, product stewardship, waste mitigation, and value are explored.
EVENT DETAILS
ACCESSIBILITY
For accessibility enquiries, please contact the venue:
hello@coatescommunityarts.com
EVENT CONTACT
For event enquiries, please contact the event organiser:
hello@futurearchive.info
0427 199 201
LOCATION
Coates Community Arts
Suite 6, Level 4/20 Collins St
Melbourne VIC 3000