Prototypical Repair Strategies, 2021, 30 x 30cm each, Repurposed calico, wool fleece, cotton thread, silk thread..
The Prototypical Repair Strategies explore approaches of technical design strategy to slow and close the life cycle loop of post-consumer bedlinen waste. The objectives of this stage of sampling was to engage with speculative and artisanal repair strategies within a limited framework of materials and colour, to provoke new lines of enquiry for iterative sampling. Traditional techniques such as darming, stitch, knit and felting were reconsidered to generate poetic reparations and reinforcements. The tactile experience of the repair site reveals itself as a significant experience of repair.
Prototypical Repair Strategies are part of my ongoing PhD research ‘Designing new circular economy pathways for post-consumer textile waste in the bedlinen industry.’
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