Textile Upcycling
Year
'21-2024
Client
Service
Textile Upcycling
The project explores how discarded garments and materials can be reactivated through design, generating new forms while preserving traces of their previous life, and was also developed under the name Offbeat District as a way to translate research into a tangible and distributed practice.
© Textile Upcycling
Context
This project brings together a series of works developed between 2021 and 2024, originating from a Master’s thesis on upcycling processes in the fashion and textile sector. It explores how discarded garments and materials can be reactivated through design, generating new forms while preserving traces of their previous life. The research was also developed under the name Offbeat District, an upcycling brand launched to translate experimentation into a tangible and distributed practice.
Outcome
Materials were collected through donations and word of mouth within a local community, making the project inherently participatory and collectively shaped. Its outcomes were shared and activated at a local level through workshops, features in independent magazines, and participation in second-hand markets, where the work was engaged with and reinterpreted by different audiences.
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Naebula—Julinko