MULCH, 2020

Keywords: wool, tufting, hydroponics, textiles, wearables

Looking into the future, based on a practice surrounding the merging of different textures and interdisciplinary backgrounds in textiles, “Mulch” focuses on the critical concept of “what if our clothes grew?” Researching hydroponics with wool as a growing medium to reflect on how we live with our garments, and encouraging a deepening of our connection with our textiles. An idea that can allow us to think about our objects in a different way.

“mulch”

m- making

u- unity

l- local

c- community

h- home

Looking at our personal wardrobes to encourage a change in how we approach and think of our textile artifacts, through a critical lens of enlightening the fact that the fabrics that we touch to our skin are either synthetic polymers that are detrimental to or stem from a natural fiber that grew in the soil. The latter is the area this project “stems” from.