Zero-waste with Loomstate
This weekend The New York Times wrote about an exciting collaboration between Parsons and Loomstate, where Loomstate is partnering with an elective course, Zero Waste Garment. There are a couple of spaces left in the course so get in quickly if you would like to take part. The course details are:
Zero Waste Garment – 7133 – PUFD 2100 – A
This course presents a new way of exploiting and building upon the students’ existing design and technical skills with focus on sustainability in fashion design. It introduces the students to designing a garment without creating fabric waste in the process. In designing and producing a zero-waste garment, the students will develop a deeper understanding of the relationships between cloth, fashion design, patternmaking and draping, and in a broader sense, the connections between material, design process and final product. On completion the students will be able to utilize patternmaking and draping as tools for innovative, sustainable fashion design. In this course sustainability provides a tool for the students to examine their design practices in a critical light.
The course is open to BFA Fashion Design Juniors and Seniors, AAS Fashion Design and BFA Integrated Design Program students. For AAS FD and BFA IDP, the prerequisite to register for the course is Construction Design 1: Patternmaking, Draping & Sewing.
If you have any questions about the course, please contact Assistant Professor of Fashion Design and Sustainability Timo Rissanen on rissanet at newschool.edu
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Aug 30, 2010 @ 6:27 pm
Melissa O'Donovan
I am a fashion student undertaking a bachelor of design in fashion design in Canberra, Australia and I was wondering if there are any opportunities for students such as myself? perhaps you could consider running a course or seminar in Australia if you could generate enough numbers. I myself cannot afford to fly to NYC to take up this amazing opportunitie at this time however I know that myself and many of my peers here in Australia would be VERY greatful for the oppertunitie to learn more about zero waste garment production.
Sep 12, 2010 @ 2:57 am
Timo Rissanen
Dear Melissa,
Thanks for your comment, and a big hello to my former home Australia! I’d recommend trying to do work experience with Materialbyproduct in Melbourne; many of their garments are zero-waste. I’d also suggest simply giving it a go yourself; pretty much all designers who’ve worked with zero-waste to date have simply just got into it, made mistakes and learned from them.
I can email you more resources; you can find my email from here: http://newschool.edu/directory/dirname.html
All the best,
Timo
Sep 12, 2010 @ 8:24 am
Zoe
Hi,
I just wanted to say how exciting this sounds! I wish i was in NYC to come to it.
Hope it goes really well.
Fantastic work!
Best wishes,
Zoe
Nov 15, 2011 @ 7:38 pm