Niki Marathia
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Material value
Week 5 of 6
Team
Design a way for textile waste to reveal its hidden value. Textiles are subject to complex processes of production, use, and disposal. Across various sectors such as fashion, hospitality, and entertainment, huge volumes of textiles are discarded, often before they have fulfilled their purpose. These include textiles such as offcuts, excess stock, worn linens, fabrics used in the entertainment industry, and textiles that have become damaged.

Project partner: FibreLab
Luis Winkelbrandt
Shuairuge Shu
Molly Wensley
Mohammed Maheen
Vanashree Chowdhury
Niki Marathia
Merrin O'Connor
Jaime Santos Guerrero
Yihan Zhong
Crazy eights

Frankentowel




Towel as interface




The life of a towel




 Towel chair


Prototyping






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    Workshop

    a stained hotel towel isn't discarded because it has stopped functioning, but because society has judged the stain as dirt, and that judgement has overridden its material value. Simmel and Douglas together explain exactly why.




















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