Project title:
- Adapt Able Shirt
- Ergo-adaptable shirt
1) Read the following article “Designer Tom Dixon Unveils His ‘Secret’ Project With Ikea (Links to an external site.)Links to an external site. and write a reflection on how it connects with the themes of our class. How does it relate to your work this semester? Do you aspire towards similar practices in your final project? Does it change how you think about mass produced designs?
The article relates with the themes of our class about climate change and resiliency. The way Ikea furniture is design based on making each item relisient to change and to the need of its user. Besides it is an affordable brand, their goal is not to make something disposable but adaptable to change and thinking carefully all the elements like materials, manufacturing and the way the user will use that piece. Therefore, by making things that can turn into something else, like a bed into a desk, is creating items that are able to be use for different things and change depending on what the user need.
The way it relates with my project for this semester is instead of creating and getting into the “fast consumption” into long life design and long life usage. For example, for my final project I am designin a shirt that I can use for the next 50 years. Therefore, the way I design is based on change and relisiency just like how Ikea furniture can be adaptable, resilient and able to change over time. In this way, instead of encouraging the user to dispose the furniture and buy a new one, it empowers to use it and change it as we want over time. I think that the philosophy and my approach of my project is similar to how Ikea designers conceive their ideas, by considering not only if the product is affordable but how the user will use it, for how long and the role of the materials.
Definitely Ikea changes my thoughts about produced designs and even it relates to fast fashion. While I was reading, I thought about how Ikea manage to be affordable but durable, not disposable and relisient. Therefore, if they can, I believe that the same approach and idea can be use in the fashion industry, creating simple and durable designs that can be use for many years and being able to be resilient to the changes of the user, for example the size. For this reason, I think that the reason of fast fashion is because the focus is on making money, instead of the design itself. If they would prioritize the use of the design and its impact on user, I believe the whole system will change. For me is just a matter of what we give importance and value to.
2) Upload a link to your LP that shares a draft of your systems map and your resiliency/repair story (see Final Project brief for full description of eachPreview the documentView in a new window). Also, what is the working title/name for your project? Label this post “System Maps and Repair/Resiliency draft.”
for the resiliency Story I need to add my statement and a brief explanation on how the shirt is resilient to 50 years.
