How to use fashion waste & repair techniques in your work
SELF-PACED, TWO-MODULE COURSE PLUS TWO MAKING WORKSHOPS
WHEN
WHERE
TIME
COST
Immediate start
Online
4 x 60-90 min sessions
£360
£432 inc. VAT if payable
YOU CAN REDEFINE WASTE AS AN EXCITING NEW RAW MATERIAL.
If you’re feeling guilty about putting yet more “stuff” into the work, this course will show you how to work with the waste generated by the fashion and textile industries to create exciting new products.
Does this sound like you?
You used to feel proud and excited about being a designer-maker, but have started to feel a creeping sense of guilt about putting more 'stuff' out into the world.
Maybe the idea of sustainability has started to feel heavy and you wish you could you engage with it in a way that feels more light, playful and creative, without dodging the issue.
You would rather give new life to things that already exist than create demand for virgin materials, but you're not sure where to start.
You might be excited about the possibilities of experimenting with new materials and what that might mean for your practice.
You're interested in the creative potential of repair and mending within your textiles practice.
You'd like to see other people exploring similar ideas so you feel less like you're swimming against the tide.
A TWO-MODULE, SELF-PACED, PROGRAMME WITH MAKING WORKSHOPS THAT WILL HELP YOU TO:
WHAT’S INCLUDED
4 x videos that were recorded with a live audience to give you a sense of energy and camaraderie
Hands-on making and mending workshops with Isobel Fletcher and Alice Burnhope
We will start with a powerful introduction to the concept of working with waste. You will be given exclusive access to the keynote speech Waste: A Category Not a Fact that I gave for San Francisco Museum of Craft and Design followed by an insightful Q&A with renowned craft writer and critic, Glenn Adamson
A ‘Read/Watch/Listen’ list of resources to explore for those who want to go deeper – kind of like the reading lists you largely ignored at art school or university, but more accessible for different learning styles and hopefully a whole lot more engaging
Interviews designers and manufacturers Virginie de Man, Simone Post and co-founder of Really, Wickie Meier Engström, who are already working with textiles waste about what their biggest challenges were, how they overcame them and the advice they have for you
Meet your instructor
Katie Treggiden
I once told a business mentor that my mission was to “inspire, educate and empower designer-makers to join the circular economy.”
He told me he didn’t think I was doing that. “What?!” I said. “I’ve written books, I’ve got a podcast, I give talks on the world’s stages, I write for everybody from The Guardian to Crafts Magazine – what more can I do?!” I responded, slightly affronted.
“Oh, you’re inspiring them, for sure,” he said. “But what about the educate and empower part? What about the ‘how’?”
He was right of course and in that moment Making Design Circular was born.
I have since interviewed hundreds of designers, makers, artists and craftspeople about their sustainability journeys and beta-tested everything in the membership, short courses and 1:1 nature-informed coaching offer with brave souls who saw me embark on my own “progress over perfection” journey.
I have seen first-hand the transformation this work has had for those who have joined so far – and I want that for you too.
YOUR INVESTMENT
One-time payment
£360 one-off payment
£432 inc. VAT if payable
3-part payment plan
3 x £120 (p/m)
3 x £144 inc. VAT if payable
