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Circular Open Source Fashion

Objective

What is Modular Fashion? What is Tesselation? In Order to know what i wanted to do in this module i had to became familiar with what is Modular Fashion? What it consists of?

Imagem- What is Modular fashion / Tesselation

What attracts me about Modular Design is the way is shortens so much the clothing production process and, consequently, the waste produced.

Apart form the sustainable aspect of this type of process, i'm interested in the way we can take shapes/sillhuettes and decostruct them, giving us endless possibilities for creating different identities.

Inspirations and Research

I began by drawing inspiration from the slides presented in this module. I sought inspiration from a visual and aesthetic perspective, as I naturally incorporate my own creative vision into the projects I produce. I also explored different approaches to construction by researching artists whose work centres on modular systems of this kind.

One of the artists who particularly fascinated me was Matija Čop, a Croatian-born fashion designer based in England.

1.Matija Cop

Imagem da uma das peças

Matija Čop is a fashion designer whose work seeks to deconstruct Romantic silhouettes through technology. By reshaping the fragmented body into a harmonious system, he explores the tension between chaos and order.

His formative years, spent amid the Croatian War of Independence and the broader interethnic conflicts in the Balkans, made him acutely aware of the power and potential of identity, as well as its advantages and limitations, within a society where identity can also become a source of conflict.

In my view, the modular construction of his deconstructed silhouettes allows him to generate countless new "identities."

MOODBOARD - Algumas imagens das peças

ref: artista, local onde a arte esta a ser exibida

2.Deborah Turbville

Moodboard imagens fotografias

Deborah Turbeville was an American fashion photographer whose work challenged the established conventions of fashion imagery. Her photographs strick me because rather than presenting fashion through polished and idealised representations, she adopted a more vulnerable, raw, and psychologically complex approach. Her photographs convey a distinctive form of deconstructed elegance, often positioning models within spaces traditionally associated with refinement and grandeur while portraying these environments as dark, deteriorated, and melancholic. Through this contrast, Turbeville was able to explore themes of fragility, isolation, and decay.

3.Iris Van harpen

For my final source of inspiration, I explored the silhouettes created by Iris van Herpen. She is a recurring reference throughout my creative practice because of the way she approaches the relationship between clothing and the human body. Rather than using garments to restrict or conceal the body, she treats them as extensions of its form and movement. This approach results in fluid, dynamic silhouettes that interact with and enhance the body instead of constraining it.

MOODBOARD designs iris van harpen

ex: Anemone dress- "Micro collection" henosis dress- roots of rebirth magnetosphere and Empyrean dress-Earth rise collection

Inicial Process

"Foto caderno ideias" "imagem procreate"

For the form of my modular design, I drew inspiration from elements of nature, aiming to represent both its cyclical processes and the broader cycle of life. In particular, I focused on the roses growing in my garden. Each stage of their development embodies a distinct form of beauty. I was especially interested in the juxtaposition between the elegance and fragility of the petals and the rigidity and sharpness of the thorns.

etapas vida de uma flor video

I began by sketching the flower in Procreate to better visualise how the individual pieces would connect. I aimed to incorporate the petals into the design, while using the remaining areas of the modular structure to form the thorns.

Imagem sketch procreate peça Imagens da minha flor

Prototype Design

After making some quick sketches to define my concept, I created a grid on a sheet of white paper and drew the petal form according to specific measurements. I began with a geometric shape and gradually introduced curved lines to achieve a more organic form.

Fotos dos desenhos a papel - lapis e tesoura fotos do modulo em papel

then i cut it and started to interlock the paper pieces experimenting with different ways of interlocked. I then cut out the shapes and began interlocking the paper pieces, experimenting with different configurations and connection methods.

Digital Prototype

I Design the module using Adobe Illustrator to prepare the file digitally.

Fotos do desenho illustrator

Then i printed the drawing and interlocked the modules to make sure they had the right mesaurements.

2.1 Quick how-tos

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Uploading images

  1. Remember to credit/reference all your images to their authors. Open source helps us create change faster together, but we all deserve recognition for what we make, design, think, develop. Use the caption and reference system examples you see in the template.

  2. Resize and optimize all your images. Images are optimised in size with resolution 72dpi, a good max width for full screen is 800px and passed through tinypng for final optimisation.

  3. Remove tips when you don't need them anymore!

How-to use footnotes for references or fabrication files

  1. Fabrication files are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the fabrication files at the bottom of the page and link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using 1 (without spaces, as shown in Step 1 & 2, and referenced as you see at the bottom of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page.

  2. Referenced footnotes are important for crediting work of others, within your documentation.

  3. If you are using footnotes for both, make sure to not mix them up, work with the numbering to keep things organised

How-to compress a PDF BEFORE uploading it:

Use a compressor when uploading a PDF, you can use online tools such as ilovepdf or smallpdf

How-to encode a VIDEO BEFORE uploading it:

Use a video encoder when uploading a video it needs to be well compressed, you can download tools such as Handbrake or online tools such as this Video Converter

How-to ZIP/compress a large Fabrication file:

To zip a file on Windows, right-click the file or folder, select "Show more options," choose "Send to," then "Compressed (zipped) folder." watch On a Mac, select the file or folder and choose "Compress" from the context menu. watch

get inspired!

Check out and research alumni pages to betetr understand how to document and get inspired

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  • Video references: Vimeo (only when not yours)
  • Video references: Youtube (only when not yours)

3. Tools

4. Process and workflow

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How-to use footnotes for fabrication files

Fabrication files are a necessary element for evaluation. You can add the fabrication files at the bottom of the page and link them as a footnote. This was your work stays organised and files will be all together at the bottom of the page. Footnotes are created using 1 (without spaces, as shown in Step 1 & 2, and referenced as you see at the bottom of this page) You can reference the fabrication files to multiple places on your page.

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5. Results

Results & documentation
  • Don’t forget to document the outcome including:
  • Upload the photos & files on oscircularfashion
  • Final result
  • Photos from different stages
  • Videos of movement or interaction, show how a material moves, something was assembled or the interaction
  • Include measurements or a reference object to give a sense of scale
  • Describe the (material) properties of what you made
  • Comparison between attempts, if you did multiple experiments or generated multiple files before fabricating / deploying. You can use a table as shown in week 4

6. Weekly reflection & critical thinking

  • What did I learn? What did I personally find interesting or surprised me?
  • What would I do differently? If something "failed" do I know how else to tackle it now?"
  • How does this connect to my final project or my learning trajectory?
  • What are implications and possible applications, think also from the ethical or environmental aspect, how it could connect to your practice and project?


NuEval — final step

Go to NuEval and fill in the checklist, when not complete notify your instructor.

7. Fabrication files & References

  1. File: Modules ↩↩

  2. File: Laser cut sheets ↩

  3. Reference: Author; Title; Source; year ↩