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THE FASHION KITCHEN
Abstract
A showcase of student work and bio material “cookbook”.
This booklet showcases the work of students at the Dubai Institute of Design & Innovation (DIDI) and aims to inspire educators, students and fashion designers to explore the potential of cooking up your own materials.
Curated by Noorin Khamisani and Vanessa Gate.
December 2021.
... As we were so inspired by our students' work, in early 2022 we created a showcase booklet or "cookbook" compiling the students' recipes, imagery and our own reflections as educators, this PDF has been made available via ResearchGate and shared on various online platforms (Linked In, Twitter, and Instagram) (Khamisani and Gate, 2022). The booklet was aimed at students, educators, and designers, essentially to encourage others to explore some of these materials in their own practice, so we combined recipes with inspirational process imagery, sketches, and photographs of final garments. ...
The environmental impact of the fashion industry is unsustainable; therefore, we cannot educate fashion designers to follow a broken fashion system. The use of plastic materials derived from fossil fuels is highly problematic throughout the whole manufacturing cycle. Creating biomaterials offers students a potentially more sustainable alternative.
We asked how we could combine the tools we use to make alternative fashion, with circular design principles to help us find innovative and sustainable fashion design solutions.
A case study methodology is adopted to analyse the outcomes of student work and their implications for fashion and design education, at a new design university in the United Arab Emirates. The students began by creating hybrid materials. As they explored the possibility of ‘cooking’ their own materials they started to embed materiality as an integral part of their design process, rather than a secondary consideration. Their mindsets as designers shifted to thinking and designing for alternative and varied life cycles. By reflecting on the impact of integrating biomaterials into fashion education, this study asserts this approach as an essential stimulus for practically addressing sustainability and its challenges within design education.
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