Our group consists of myself, Ali and Hamad. We took a while to carefully think through the prompt in order to come up with a product that is both timeless and made from plastic. Our aim was to not only create a product but in the process to teach our grandchildren and further generations…
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Brainstorming for the final project. Maxim, Ari, Kevin.
We decided to build a shelf that combines two important things that we would like to pass on to our grandchildren: knowledge and life. When it comes to life, instead of throwing our plastic away and killing life gradually we can reuse plastic for our advantage since it is everlasting reviving life. As for books,…
Brainstorming to Implementation – Fanisi, Hannah and Ward
For the final project we made a note of the core guidelines that should direct our creative process: (1) The product must be something that we could hand down to our grandchildren. (2) It should be made out of recycled plastic and can be either aesthetic or functional (or both). However, in the brainstorming process…
Ali AlDhanhani – Heather Kaye
Heather Kaye’s talk was very insightful and eye-opening. Prior to her talk, I had never wondered what our clothes were made of. I think I blindly assumed that clothes were made of cotton or some other material, but I never expected it to be plastic. I think it’s due to the nature of the appearance…
Written Response – Plastic Fashion
I was aware of many of the topics discussed in the last lectures, but not the magnitude in which these problems were affecting us and how absurd were these measures being implemented. For instance, I never realised how many clothes were actually going to waste even before being useful, and how many of these were…
Plastic Clothing
I actually knew most clothes were made from ~not cotton but I came to know that in a strange way. Someone passed down a sweater to me a couple of years back and it was distinctly of low quality. Not because of age but it felt very plastic — I could see the individual threads…
The Fashionableness of Plastic
Today’s guest talk focused primarily on the prevalence of plastic in the clothing/fashion industry. The guest lecturer was Heather Kaye, one of the founder of Loop Swimwear. This lecture made me realize the extent of the use of plastic in our clothings, something that I was not aware of beforehand. I think the problem lies…
Hamad Bin Fahad, On Plastic Fashion
Before attending Heather’s presentation I genuinely did not know plastic was used in the making of clothes that we are able to wear. Till now this idea is a little mind-blowing to me, and for it to make sense in my mind will take some more time and research in the way these fabrics are…
Ward- Microfibres in clothes
When I read more about plastic in clothing I went into my closet to find a lot of my clothes are made of polyester or nylon and now I realized that not only our waste but now our clothes are part of the problem that we have going on. I read that most new fabrics…
Plastic Fashion
Learning that many of our clothing items consist mostly of plastic was shocking. I already knew that some materials used for clothes contained plastic, but I did not imagine the extent of it. I thought that some amount of plastic could be added to clothes in order to aid the material or add certain qualities…
Life in plastic.. it’s “fantastic” !
The talk by Heather Kaye was a very honest and informative overview on the fast fashion industry and how unsustainable it is. Prior to her presentation and my research I was aware that we had plastic in our clothes but I did not think it was this extreme. I would assume a garment was made…
Hilina Bayew: Guest Speaker – Heather Kaye
To start off I was extremely shocked to find out that the clothes we wear were in fact made out of various types of plastic. I simply assumed that polyester was just another type of fabric but it never crossed my mind that it could possibly mean a form of plastic. When this first came…