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Fantastic Plastic Fashion Drag Show Design Challenge
This project is a design challenge asking you to use your skills and creativity to build garments to meet a brief posed by Queen Bayard. No prior experience is needed, you can come along and learn new skills in fashion design! The challenge stems from creating these items from recycled and recovered plastic, provided by the Plastic Shed, a social enterprise based in Stockport.
You will be given a design brief and material and the rest is over to you! This is a fantastic opportunity to explore design through new and different materials that aren’t usually incorporated into fashion. This will pose challenges but by overcoming these you will gain unique skills and first-hand, practical experience in working with these materials.
Support from designers at the Plastic Shed and practitioner Jamie-Lee Wainman will help you to get to grips with these materials and the opportunity to explore the use of 3D printing in fashion design. You will also have the chance to visit these designers’ studios and hear their stories of how they used their experience at Manchester Metropolitan to launch themselves into the world of design!
The schedule for this project is as follows, location details will follow.
Friday 2nd June 10 am- 4 pm – Introduction to the project – Cavendish Workshop Man Met
Monday 5th June 10 am- 4 pm – Design and 3D printing session at Wainman Design workshop
Tuesday 6th June 10 am- 4 pm – Design Session at the Plastic Shed
Wednesday 7th June 10 am- 4 pm – Design workshop Cavendish Workshop Man Met
Monday 12th June 10 am- 4 pm – Design Workshop Cavendish Workshop Man Met
Friday 16th June 10 am- 4 pm – Finale and showcase at the Midsummer Sustainability Festival Business School Man Met
For access to the Cavendish teaching workshops enter the Righton building then head up to the first floor to find the workshops.
Find out more about the Team
In A Nutshell...
- Design and create ... sustainable fashion garments from recycled and reused plastic
- Discover ... how new materials and technologies can fight the negative impacts of fast fashion
- Upskill ... with hands-on practical fashion design and garment creation
- Express ... your creativity and make your vision become a reality
- Showcase ... your ideas as part of the fantastic plastic drag show
- Earn up to 200 Rise points ... which can be recognised within your degree.
Schedule
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10:00 to 16:00 on 02/06/23 - Cavendish Building First Floor Workshop
Project Introduction Welcome to the project and the design challenge -
10:00 to 16:00 on 05/06/23 - Islington Mill 1 James Street Salford M3 5HW
Design and 3D printing session at Wainman Design Workshop Discover the role of 3D printing in sustainable fashion design -
10:00 to 16:00 on 06/06/23 - 6 Deanery Way, Stockport, SK1 1PP https://www.plasticshed.org/contact
Design Session at the Plastic Shed Discover how waste plastic can be reshaped and reused in a safe and sustainable manner -
10:00 to 16:00 on 07/06/23 - Cavendish Building Workshops - First Floor
Design Workshop Workshop time to build your garments -
10:00 to 16:00 on 12/06/23 - Cavendish workshop, Cavendish Building First Floor
Design Workshop Cavendish Workshop Man Met Workshop time to work on your garments -
10:00 to 18:00 on 16/06/23 - Business School Atrium
Plastic Fashion Dragshow at the Mid-Summer Sustainability Festival Showcase your work at the Mid-Summer Sustainability Festival and in the drag show by Queen Bayard