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11. Implications and applications

This week has been totally incredible.

While we had been woking in team those last days, this was a long journey with myself!!!

I didn't know nor even expected that there would be all this bends, turn-arounds and questionings about which way to go !!

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But that is the Fabricademy's trip I guess, and I can say that it's really rich of learnings !

So I must admit that it was not the easisest or even funniest - I felt like being in a shaker (or shredder ?) during those days - but I guess it is the way you progress the most!

So thank you for that !!!

My trip to my tripes

Let me share with you the different steps I've been going through during this weird week, my up and down states of mind that ponctuated the beginning of this journey to my final's project idea !

This week is happening just after the "Textile as Scaffold" and the "Open Source Hardware" one, during which I really loved working about wastes and buidling machine. Thus, it came out quite naturally that I thought about building a machine to deal with textile wastes, designed for an individual use. I was really inspired by Precious Plastic who I discovered also his week. They're doing a wonderful job with plastic wastes, based on a strong community and communication.

This was the first idea I shared with the Lyon Textile Lab team the wednesday. Here it is, on the Miroboard we built altogether :

I really loved this project's idea since it brought a concrete and meaningfull solution to the critical issue of wastes I'm dealing with as a sewer for several years. I also looked at Dominique's work (Fabricademy 2019-2020) on textile wastes who developed a composite with Denim's wastes, which was very inspiring as well. My wish was to manage, with a machine (or several) to spin a new thread with those wastes. After many research on that subject, I felt I wasn't sure about the professionnal goal of it : was it really what I was aiming to do after Fabricademy was the crucial point.

On thursday, I realised something wasn't completely corresponding to my initial goals. Something really important for me was missing, which was related to the occupationnal retraining I started a few years as a tailor-made sewer.

A bit lost, I listened to Theresa van Twuijver's recitation about storytelling , which really helped me to focus on what I really wanted to dig in during this project.

Some key points about it :

  • Why this project is so important to YOU ans so close to your heart ?

  • Why are you here basically at Fabricademy ?

  • The story is the WHAT + WHY + EMOTIONS of your engagement with your project

  • A storytelling is a vitrine in which you showcase your project.

Design and construct it carefully :

✗ describing a problem

✗ introducing a hero

✗ the hero finding a solution for this problem

✗ arranging all of the above in a persuasive and attractive way

Extracts of the recitation by Theresa

As I felt completely lost in space, and quite stressed I decided to make a first big brainstorming, writing everything that I thought important to me, to set down my ideas and try to clear my mind ...

Then a second, smaller...

At that point, I thought that building a link between Nature and Textile was quite interesting : I guess that people who live in big cities have been all suffering from being far from nature, especially during lockdown. To me, children really lack of this contact, and that it is essential to our mental and physical health.

So I've had the idea of creating a kind of "Nature bubble", like a hanging chair, in which anyone could isolate and find piece when needed.

This is the second project I presented during friday's afternoon visio.

But my mind wasn't really clear about it, and many questions remained, like about the technics and materials : The "how" was really fuzzy...I felt it was really far from what I made from now on, and that it would be difficult in 3 months to give birth to that kind of project even if I loved it as well !!!

Came back to the departure point...lost again...aaarrrrgghhhhhh

STAY CALM, MEDITATION, BREATHING...STAY CALM, MEDITATION, BREATHING...STAY CALM, MEDITATION, BREATHING...STAY CALM, MEDITATION, BREATHING...

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Friday evening : Really tired with all this reflexion, I decided to just let bake for a while and see if something appears more clearly in my head 😌

During the week-end, I avoided to think to much, but took notes of all the ideas that came to me, without paying to much attention at the processes behind. I wrote pages, had really many ideas, and found most of them pretty cool !!

I love dreaming, which is cool, but then I have to come back to reality and make choices !!!

Sunday evening : the revelation, at last

I came to the conclusion that, as a sewer, I wanted to make a garment. Then I had to find the "WHY" : Why this garment, find a reason to do it, find its usefulness, FOR WHO, and with what kind of technology.

This is exactly like making a puzzle, you may prefer begin to make the frame until you come to the last final piece !!

If you're longing to know what is the last piece of my puzzle, then have a look on this below !

....In fact, this is absolutely not the last piece, it is maybe one of the central pieces.....

Presentation

Inspiration

  • Emma Harriet, E-Textile, Touch, natural dying and fibers

  • Vivian Leigh, Gone With the Wind

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Researches

The bridal trousseau French tradition

Extract from this website

Every bridal trousseau is certainly different, but there are some similarities that shine through. “A trousseau could include everything from pottery to jewelry, dresses, family heirlooms, quilted bedding, money, and other items to prepare for a new home,” says Aleah and Nick Valley. You’ve heard the saying "something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, and a silver sixpence in her shoe," right? Your bridal trousseau is the ideal place to keep all of those treasured items, with the addition of the sixpence (or a penny) for good luck, as well as your getting-ready attire and undergarments as you prepare for your wedding day, honeymoon, and married life.

The social aspect of a garment

  • Pierre Bourdieu, Sociologie de la Mode, 1980
  • Roland Barthes, Sémiologie du vêtement et de la Mode
  • Georg Simmel,between imitation and distinction, (1998)
Last update: 2022-01-24