Recycling, Recrafting and Redesign
摘要
The act of redesignRedesign and to ‘recraft’ something lends itself to sustainabilitySustainability when a pre-owned garmentPre-owned garmentsGarments gets a new shape and a new ownerMaker Patron/Owner instead of a new garmentGarments being produced and new raw materialRaw materials extracted. RecraftingRecrafting eventsEvent that bring people together into a group setting is one way to explore how learning through craftsCraft(s) may encourage collaborativeCollaborative approaches on a grassroots level that could contribute to reducing the negative impact from the industry through targeting the growing mountain of second-hand garmentsGarments. The crafting process of redesigning and rejuvenating second-hand garmentsGarments when combined with a large untapped and inherently skilled and resourceful population, may change the way we perceive and revaluate both the materials and the making process behind them. This revaluationMaterial revaluation of roles and materials could have an impact on the way people choose to continue to engage in fashionFashion as they may either move away from the habit of buying new materials or begin to create affordable fashionFashion from what already exists.