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Day 4

Thursday 16

Summary

  • 09:00-09:30 Coffee & Cookies
  • 09:30-11:00 Open Source Circular Fashion
  • 11:00-12:00 Hands-on: Laser cutting
  • 12:00-13:00 Lunch Break
  • 13:00-18:00 Hands-on: Open Source Hardware, Making New Tools and Processes
  • 19:00-20:00 Project session

Location: Technical College Reykjavik

Activities

  • Open Source Circular Fashion

In the morning, together with Anastasia Pistofidou, we will explore different laser cutting techniques applications on textiles, talking about the systems behind fashion and the textile industry and focusing on alternative ones, such as circular fashion, agile fashion, open value chains.

  • Hands-on: Laser cutting

During the activity, participants will design and fabricate a modular reconfigurable or seamless garment and publish their designs on OS Circular Fashion Platform, attaching the list of materials used, pictures and assembly guidelines, learning how to monitor and promote their creations in a distributed network.

The focus will be on creating modular elements, structures and connections that allow the user to change the shape of a garment, resize it or replace certain elements; the soft connection can be designed to be implemented in the assembly of a garment, being applied on the seams or it can be designed as single elements that act as construction parts of a garment.

  • Hands-on: Open Source Hardware, Making New Tools and Processes

The activity explores the open source hardware field focusing on the techniques, tools and machines that create traditional fabrics. How to update obsolete machines for producing textile? How to take advantage of digital fabrication and open source technology to come up with an open source machine for knitting, weaving and invent new techniques. Participants will learn how to hack, both existing machines and tools, creating open source accessible machinery for a broader public.

Materials

  • Felt
  • Fabrics
  • Leather
  • Sealing textiles
  • Vegetable tanned leather
  • Neoprene
  • Electronics

Tools/Software

Recommendations

Suggested to bring with you:

  • Notebook and personal computer with Rhinoceros installed
  • Materials (leather, fabrics..) you want to try and that you are working with to experiment

Resources