'Would You Mend?'

Sammanfattning

Motivated by the textile industry pollution and its responsiblity for 10% of the worlds CO2 emissions, the project set out to explore solutions to textile waste patterns from an industrial designers point of view. Through research, system design, user journey design, material mechanics innovation and product design - three outcomes were generated. 1. An imagined system solution that proposes textile mending stations at public spaces with tooling corresponding with the largest worn-textile issues. 2. An innovated method of rapidly stapling buttons onto textile that has had buttons missing. With an aluminium matte finish and backplate - it’s versatile and works within current sorting systems. 3. A prototyped tool for the previously developed method of attaching buttons. This tool along with the method creates an example of tools within the previously developed mending station system. The thesis as a whole achieved its goal of exploring solutions from the perspective of industrial design. The potential impact on textile waste is however unclear as it would need further testing outside of the scope for the project. If tested and proven, the implementation of primarily the first outcome could provide a solution yet to be tested in the market. One that meets the users, policy and businesses with effective textile waste prevention, thus keeping great waste hierarchy value.