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:

Friday 2nd June - Introduction to the project

Monday 5th June – Design and 3D printing session at Wainman Design workshop

Tuesday 6th June – Design Session at the Plastic Shed

Wednesday 7th June – Design workshop

Monday 12th June – Design Workshop

Friday 16th June – Finale and showcase at the Midsummer Sustainability Festival

Find out more about the Team

The Plastic Shed

Wainman Design   

Queen Bayard

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