The global textile industry consumes a tremendous amount of resources followed by an equal load of waste in disposal. Exploitative principles of production are not only harming the livelihoods of people in the global south, but also endangering small local businesses, benefitting only a few multinational corporations. Transitory Yarn suggests a more conscious approach towards the use of materials in garment fabrication, using a knitting technology and. a prototypical process that enables circularity in garment production. By unraveling and reknitting unused items, the original resource will sustain through several life cycles of a product. With a “Design for Disassembly” philosophy, the project proposes a new standard for the fabrication of clothing; a counter-proposal to the concept of planned obsolescence.
Alexandra Fruhstorfer, Max Scheidl, Anna Neumerkel
For the JDW 2022 textile designer Mijal Bubis joins the team in a site specific collaboration.