Future Eco Fashion
Transform waste materials and locally grown resources into sustainable fashion.
This collaborative digital portfolio is to help you plan and manage your design project and the gathering of evidence for each stage of learning
Design Challenge
Discover
Ideate
Develop
Showcase
Define
Refine
Deliver
Discuss
Investigating and defining
Generating and designing
Producing and implementing
Evaluating
Learning Experience Map
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| User-Centered Design Sustainability in Fashion Textile Science and Technologies Design Principles and Techniques Cultural and Ethical Fashion Global Fashion Supply Chains | Design Thinking Research and Analytical Skills Concept sketching Sewing and Garment Construction Collaboration Communication Research and Analytical Skills | Presentation Skills Time Management: Resource Management: Teamwork and Collaboration Ethical Reasoning Reflective Thinking Innovation and Risk-Taking | |
Design and Technologies: | Technologies and Society Materials and Technologies Specializations Investigating and Defining Generating and Designing Planning and Managing Evaluation |
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Science: | Investigate the properties of natural and synthetic fibers, including how they break down and their environmental impact. | |||
Mathematics: | Use measurement skills to design and create garment patterns, ensuring minimal waste in fabric cutting. | |||
Capabilities: | Critical and Creative Thinking: Ethical Capability: Personal and Social Capability: |
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Investigating and defining | Session 1 | Design Challenge Introduction Slow Fashion |
Session 2 | Waste Materials Brainstorm | |
Session 3 | Identify Local Organic Materials Share Research | |
Generating and designing | Session 4 | Morphological Matrix Design Options |
Session 5 | Design Brief Evaluation Criteria Share Design Brief and Criteria | |
Investigating and defining | Session 6 | Visual Design Research |
Generating and designing | Session 7 & 8 | Concept Development |
Planning and Managing | Session 9 | Production Planning Share Design Concept and Production Plan |
Producing and implementing | Session 10 - 14 | Prototyping |
Evaluation | Session 15 | Evaluation |
Suggested Timeline of Student Centred Activities
Investigating
and defining
Connect
Challenge
Extend
Watch the assigned video on slow fashion to deepen your understanding of sustainable and ethical practices in the fashion industry. After viewing, you will reflect on the content to identify:
Plastic
Bottles
Create Plastic
Thread
Waste Materials Brainstorm
Potential Waste
Collaborate with peers to identify up to four different types of waste materials and brainstorm up to three innovative ways each can be repurposed to create sustainable clothing.
Consider these types
Investigating
and defining
Use this page to focus only on one potential issue you have identified that may help your end user
Focus Area:____________________________________________________
How could assisting the user improve their lives?
Explain user need or want.
What could help the user with this need or want?
Research and explore your local area for potential organic materials.
Choose up to three organic materials from the list of options below and explore their potential for local availability or cultivation.
Examples:
Organic Materials | Local Availability | Basic Steps to Cultivate |
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Investigating
and defining
Identify Local Organic Materials
Share
What have you learned about fast and slow fashion?
What waste materials could be used for eco clothing?
What organic local materials could you potentially use in clothing?
Tech School Technologies
3D Printing
Laser Cutting
Microcontrollers
Sewing
End User | Type of Clothing | Type of Environment | Waste Materials | Local Organic Materials |
Adults | Tops/Shirts | Urban | Recycled Plastic Bottles (PET) | Wool (Sheep, Alpaca) |
Teenagers | Pants/Jeans | Rural | E-Waste Components (Wires, Circuit Boards) | Natural Dyes from Local Plants |
Children | Dresses/Skirts | Tropical | Discarded Fishing Nets (Nylon) | Mushroom Leather |
Outdoor Workers | Jackets/Coats | Cold/Arctic | Scrap Leather Goods | Nettle Fibers |
Pets | Accessories (Hats, Scarves, Bags) | Mixed Climate | Used Tires/Rubber | Leaf Fiber |
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Add to and use the morphological matrix as a creative tool to develop innovative, eco-friendly fashion designs options that you record on the next page.
Generating and designing
Morphological Matrix
Generating
You can use these templates to consider a range of possible Ecofusion Fashion designs .
You can further research and discuss these with your classmates.
You can also chose to focus on some areas and not others depending on the type of end user and environment you are focusing on.
EcoFusion Fashion Option 1 | |
End User | |
Type of Clothing | |
Type of Environment | |
Waste Materials | |
Local Organic Materials | |
EcoFusion Fashion Option 2 | |
End User | |
Type of Clothing | |
Type of Environment | |
Waste Materials | |
Local Organic Materials | |
EcoFusion Fashion Option 3 | |
End User | |
Type of Clothing | |
Type of Environment | |
Waste Materials | |
Local Organic Materials | |
Design Options
Define the specific problem you hope to solve:
Choose one of the issues your group investigated to solve and identify the specific problem you are trying to solve
What specific problem are you trying to raise awareness of?
Who are you trying to help?
When will this be used?
Where will it be used?
Why is it needed?
How could it help?
What is the specific problem?
Who will you be helping?
Where will this be used?
Why is it needed?
How could it help?
How can we transform waste materials and locally grown resources into sustainable fashion.
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Use this Design Brief Starburst template to identify specific things to focus on in your design project.
When will this be used?
Generating and designing
Generating
What do you want your solutions to do?
Agree on a set of evaluation criteria that you will use throughout the design process to evaluate your design concepts.
Use information from your research and design brief starburst to identify 4 more important requirements for your design concept.
You can use the following prompts to start your criteria.
It must …
It should…
It will…
It must be comfortable to wear
Share
Who and where are you designing for?
What type of clothing and why?
What materials will you try to use?
Why will your EcoFusion design be sustainable?
Investigating
Visual Design Research
Collect a broad range of images or screenshots of existing, past and future fashion that relate to the evaluation criteria you have developed.
Annotate each image to explain what you liked or didn’t like about the design.
Add as many pages as required.
Investigating
Visual Design Research
Collect a broad range of images or screenshots of existing, past and future fashion that relate to the evaluation criteria you have developed.
Annotate each image to explain what you liked or didn’t like about the design.
Add as many pages as required.
Generating
Generate as many sketches of your best ideas as you can!
Relate each of your concepts to the research you have previously conducted.
You can draw on paper and then scan pages or take pictures of them to import sketches to this page.
Annotate your concepts to indicate function, features and components where possible.
You can also generate ideas using AI image generation tools, ask your teacher for support with this approach.
Concept Sketching
Add as many pages as required.
Generating
Generate as many sketches of your best ideas as you can!
Relate each of your concepts to the research you have previously conducted.
You can draw on paper and then scan pages or take pictures of them to import sketches to this page.
Annotate your concepts to indicate function, features and components where possible.
You can also generate ideas using AI image generation tools, ask your teacher for support with this approach.
Concept Sketching
Add as many pages as required.
Planning and
Managing
Use this page to help plan production of your prototype, whatever you think will be most effective approach for creating your design concept.
List all materials and equipment you think may be used.
Production Planning
Production Step | Proposed Process | Materials And Equipment Required |
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Add pages as necessary.
Share
Producing and implementing
Delete this text and write a description of your final design prototype here…
Add annotated pictures of your prototype.
Your Final Design
Add pages as necessary.
Evaluating
Your Evaluation Criteria | Potential of Your Design | Possible Improvements |
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Use this page to evaluate the potential of your design against the criteria you specified earlier.
Where possible identify further improvements that could be made.
What should be the positive impacts of your design?
What could be potential negative impacts of your design?
Your Design Reflection