Shaping Fashion Futures
2024
This exhibition explored the future of fashion technologies, speculating about a future world where fabric is rationed and all polyester clothing is recycled in a closed-loop system. Using found materials, textile production and artificial intelligence to imagine an end-to-end chemical recycling system, Coldrey calculated the impact new sustainable fashion models could have on social norms, governance, and environmental impacts such as landfill and water. This project was co-designed with young people from Bendigo, who learnt skills in AI pattern design, draping, sustainable fashion and urban planning.
This project was generously supported by Bendigo Tech School.
Speculative Dress #1
Beige Landfill
Speculative System for Chemical Polyester Recycling
Motion Gown Prototype
Speculative Dress #3
Speculative Dress #2
Student work
Student work
The Bendigo Times - Fashioning a sustainable future of clothing
“The main idea around the series was trying to imagine a more sustainable vision for the fashion industry, but using technology, science, and engineering to project what that system could look like on a large scale.”
The Bendigo Times - Local students inspired to design for solutions