My research question
Can I increase student engagement with end-of-life textile considerations by taking them on an external visit to a textile collection and sorting facility and exposing them face-to-face to the reality of textile waste and to solutions to avoid wasting raw fibre?
Aim:
Establish deep knowledge of textile waste and applicable solutions of waste management and avoidance to be implemented in the student’s ongoing work for this knowledge to become embedded and shape to students’ practice and their ongoing careers.
Objectives:
- Establish knowledge of textile waste and solutions for prevention via primary research to raise awareness of their individual positioning
- Introduce the wider challenge of textile waste management during a tour of SATcol’s Textile Reprocessing Centre
- Run a textile sorting activity at the sorting facility that will introduce solutions within the students’ reach to avoid textile waste
- Evaluate data to measure success and record further unintended positive outcomes of the external visit.