Organization: Biodesign Challenge
Workshop: Future Fashion 2123 (Highschool)
Role: Curriculum development + Instructor
*** Workshop participants designed their own statement pieces (bucket hats), shared their views and walked the runway!
Do you think we’ll look back at the fashion of 2023 from the year 2123 the same way we now look at fashion in 1923? or will the gap feel even larger?
Join us for a 1-hour workshop as we take a quick tour of the history of fashion that led us to today and design the possible futures, where current sustainable and anti-fast fashion trends might take us.
We’ll survey the speculative worlds of science fiction stories and write our own narratives. We’ll debate if cyborgs are just the next step in human evolution, or if what we really need to be thinking about is biohacking and biocyborgs?
Will we be printing our wardrobes at home with biomaterials? Will we achieve the ultimate sustainable, regenerative material to product to end-of-life cycle? How will our relationship between the physical and digital world affect our fashion choices? Will your avatar be so much cooler than you could ever be that you won’t want anyone to know the real you?
How will our need to survive the environmental realities of the future dictate what we wear? Is your vision of the future of fashion, utopic or dystopic?