10. Open Source Hardware - From Fibers to Fabric¶
Day 1¶
For this week, we have been to Arles to visit Atelier Luma's workshop, where a conference of The Herewear Project was taking place. Their work is mainly to empower local, circular & bio-based textiles. The conference was about manufacture of cellulose yarn, from rice straw to wet spinning : very technical aspects of the production system. If I am honest, I felt a bit lost facing this, because anything industrially created at a large scale doesn't speak to me at all. I saluted the very professional persons who were there to share their knowledge and speculations, but it was too difficult to me to relate.
We had a fantastic lunch at Luma's restaurant, where a lot of materials are bio-based, to the coffee cup!
During the afternoon, we separated into different groups/workshops within the working space. I was with the group " " with different professional from the field. Honestly I have been more an observer as I didn't know much about the subject.
Finally we had also the chance to visit the LUMA museum, where bio-based materials are used for the architecture. I particularly appreciated the walls made of salt crystals that could be found in the lift hall.
I also felt strong emotions in front of the artwork of Cyprien Gaillard and the one's of Konstantin Grcic. There were other fabulous artists but, we did'nt have time left to see everything.
Day 2¶
As part of the European Week for Waste Reduction in partnership with the Village des Créateurs and the Chambre des Métiers de l'Artisanat; We (textile lab) met around the workshop. The discussion was opened with speeches by Justine Byrka from Ecohé and Tristan Vuillet from Feat Coop, in the presence of Solène Doubliez, textile project manager at the Metropole of Lyon. The Textile Lab then welcomed everyone in its workshop nearby, for a demonstration of the fabric shredder and a quick vue on biomaterials.
Inspired by these testimonies, we started to imagine a way to recycle fabric scraps. But above all, plastic fabric scraps, as they are the most difficult to recycle. We selected plastic fabrics from the textile lab waste, which we then sorted, with the aim of melting them together using a heat press, and recreating an agglomerate plate of melted fabrics.
Day 3¶
I was actually sick to I didn't follow the end of the project unfortunately.