AFTER 2 ROUNDS OF 9 CO-CREATION MONTHS
MIXING ART & TECH The combination of technicians and artists gave a unique point of view for the projects developed during this nine-month co-creation period. From Care Applications we accompanied four artists from the Hub: “From linear to sustainable circular system” on their journey to …
A New Kind of Blue
The prototypes are finished. The only thing left is to put in zippers and buttons. We are getting ready for dissemination – preparing and planning what events to go, which prototypes and samples to show where, and how we are going to have the last …
Final treatments on New Blue
The month started off with the finalization of patterns and tailoring of the remaining garments. 1 boilersuit, 2 five panel hats, 2 jackets, 1 pair of pants, 2 shorts, and a fanny bag. Produced in 3 different New Blue materials: New Blue Industry, New Blue …
Prototyping and other endeavors
In the last post we mentioned how we collaborated with different subcontractors in order to go from samples to garments. The fashion designer, pattern maker and tailor helped us immensely in this undertaking, and made it a reality to have some final garment pieces ready …
From Samples to Garments
In May we came back to our studio in Berlin. We had just been spending 5 exciting and challenging weeks in the Re-FREAM Hub in Alcoy, Spain, together with our partners, Aitex and Care Applications. Now being back in Berlin we were to begin the …
Mid term presentation of New Blue
On the 12th of April we had the mid term presentation! We arrived two weeks before in Spain with all our material we developed and had to work hard in order to show our work done here in the research institute. We presented our project …
We arrived at our HUB in Alcoy, Spain!
Hola! After a few stressful weeks in Germany, preparing and finishing all the base material (New Blue Craft and New Blue industry), we arrived in the beautiful city of Alcoy, Spain. Here our HUB is situated in an old monumental building in the middle of …
New Blue. Novel material of recycled denim – first steps in the collaboration with Re-Fream.
Material and product designer Tim van der Loo and techno-anthropologist Sandra Nicoline Nielsen entered the ReFREAM collaboration based on a very simple idea. The co-research idea is to build on an existing fabric created as part of the circular garment project New Blue, further developing …
