Design for Recyclability Course
Expand your horizons on design choices you can make to lean into a circular business model, learn from professionals who are using this technique to drive out waste, and discover innovations and opportunities for embracing recyclability.
Design for Zero Waste Course
Deepen your understanding of zero-waste techniques, gain practical insights into effective pattern problem-solving, and explore innovative strategies for minimising waste.
Fibre Choices & Sustainability Course
Strengthen your general knowledge about fibres, enhance your ability to select fibres with less impact, hear from industry experts on the latest innovations and technologies to provide better possibilities for the future.
Conjoined, Spliced, and Pieced Techniques
In this activity, you will explore a variety of techniques to reconstruct post-consumer garments into innovative new shapes whilst striving for zero waste.
Our Jeans and the Planet
On this interactive website, ‘create’ your very own pair of jeans and see its environmental impact while learning about innovations that are transforming fashion sustainability.
DHL x Angus Tsui: case study
This case study explores how designer Angus Tsui, in collaboration with DHL and Redress, applied circular design techniques to remanufacture corporate textile waste, highlighting how cross-sector partnerships can drive change.
1. Overproduction and overconsumption
In this module, we’ll explore how overproduction and overconsumption causes environmental problems, and how fast fashion business models and modern marketing have encouraged unsustainable production patterns and consumption habits.
4. Fashion is eating up our land!
Land is needed to grow raw materials like cotton, trees, and wool necessary to make clothes. But the space taken and pollution created is a major threat to our land.
3. The truth of your ‘oily’ clothes
The fashion industry emits carbon around the world by using lots of energy. We generate energy by burning oil, which is non-renewable. Once it’s used up, it’ll be gone forever.
Zero-Waste
This guide provides an overview of the zero-waste design technique. You will learn different methods and approaches from planning the pattern to final execution.