CONCEPT¶

Since the beginning of my Fabricademy journey, my goal was to apply 3D design to bio-compost materials to create simple designs, merging different approaches, like traditional and ancient craftsmanship with digital fabrication. I found a wide range of possibilities, many new ideas, new tools, new materials and new technologies that I wanted to apply in my final project.

The combination of the word “sustainability” and the fashion field is increasingly present and the sources of inspiration that led me to believe in the possibility of creating something positively impacting, are increasingly numerous. We live in an era where normality has a such negative effect on the resources that the environment offers us, so the need for alternatives leads to the advent of concepts such as fashion disruption, anti-consumerism, anti-fashion, or initiatives such as the virtuous Precious Plastic by Dave Hakkens, as well as subversive studies like that of the materials innovator Sanne Visser.

In light of these sources of inspiration, the desire to be able to do more, to deepen and learn about means and dynamics, increase my knowledge on fashion and sustainability, materializes. Curiosity and experimentation are not enough, therefore I look for the missing and fundamental piece that can make me touch aspects of fashion design that interest me: BIO materials and sustainability, Arduino, 3D modeling and printing, natural dyeing and prints, wearable, interconnections between nature and technology.

eco_Shaman[t]_Garde starts from a conceptual division of the human being in 2 defined parts.

the Natural and Tradionalistic One & the Technologic and Futuristic One.

inner self, internal body, connection, spiritual, ancestral, soil, ground refer to ANCIENT SHAMANISM

outer self, external body, armour/shell, material, futurism, concrete, new kind refer to NEO SHAMANISM

The Research of the Natural Connection between HUMAN and NATURE_ is MERGING with

Fight against the WRONG application of TECHNOLOGY at the expense of Nature

CREATING ->

eco_Shaman[t]_Garde [ecologic + shamanism + avantgarde] =

HEALING the EARTH, from men's weakness of growing against Nature
HACKING the SYSTEM, protecting the human from its weakness with an armour

INSPIRATIONS¶

“Art is a form of communication that has the ability to promote the challenges concerning climate change. Providing an aesthetic message can often convey awareness or understanding against sometimes over-complicated statistics or articles. Visual art also transcends the barrier of language, making both the work and message able to be viewed by a global audience. If art has the power to encourage the public to act, to move them emotionally, or at the very least take notice, then this surely must mean art is a vital element in creating impact regarding climate change.”

MANDY BARKER

ONE ARMY | DAVE HAKKENS

SANNNE VISSER

Charles Freger | Wilder-Mann

Hardiness Zone Map

Shamanism

Syntropic Materials