Poster Campaign and Community Workshop
Australia
is addicted to the newness and cheapness of fast fashion. With the textile
industry being one of the largest contributors to the climate crisis consumers
feel that their actions are inconsequential to the scale of the problem. This
is not true. Consumers have the power to make their wardrobe sustainable.
This
project aims to build an emotional connection between consumers and their
clothing. Loving your clothes is a radical act of sustainability. To love your
clothes is to wear them more, keep them longer and mend them instead of buying
new.
This
project is a poster campaign and a three-hour workshop. The poster campaign
will provoke people, introducing them to the idea of love as an act of rebellion
and sustainability and introduce them to the workshop. The workshop will teach
basic hand sewing skills while facilitating a conversation and reflection on
the participants relationship with their clothes. The participants are
encouraged to bring an unloved piece of clothing they own to be upcycled into a
communal textile artwork. In the workshop the participants will all be
working together on the same cloth. The final design of the textiles artwork is
determined by the participants.