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Textile waste is a large contributor to global environmental pollution. The Institute of Positive Fashion states that community, environment, and craftmanship are the principles required to reduce the damage of textile waste.
The project utilises these principles to create a space for waste that allows the Deptford community to consider waste as part of their environmental experience, introducing a Fabric-Waste-Depository. Zero-waste design methods are explored and tested to emphasise the conscious rejection of harmful waste of both material and space. The dichotomy of material, movement and space are essential to the discussion of the waste experience.
The fabric can react directly with the creek to create a harmonious experience. An architectural garment is created for Deptford Creek for the cohabitation of movement, site and waste form.
The depository is in constant flux with the changing tide, opening and closing, expanding and contracting as a garment to the environment. It may never look the same as any previous moment, a reminder of constant evolution.
The depository redresses an experience of waste and cohabits with the environment. Communicating like garments with the body, its movements are shared, mimicked and explored in unison as a performative expression of mutual experience.
This concept patchwork was made as an expression of shared waste, stitched together to create a product that unites a community through its waste, making use of typically discarded material.
This project utilises the shifting tidal environment of the creek to connect the environment to the program of waste experience.