GMU:Sustainable Aesthetics/Leandra Annekathrin Maretzky

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My first thoughts about sustainable aesthetics:

When I think of aesthetics, the first thing in my mind is the appearance/look of something. For me this is a visual experience. Now when we connect aesthetics to sustainability, I understand that as a change in the way of creating a design for a certain product. Sustainability means working together with my environment - not against it. I take the items it is offering me and create something new out of it. I don't need everything to be "brand-new" - I can make it look like it is way more new.


I am highly interested in fashion and the sustainable way of creating/purchasing clothes. For me it can be a way of showing personality in a visual appearance. While I researched about this topic I stumbled upon a certain culture in the fashion industry - "thrifting". It is about reusing "old" or thrown-away clothes to make some new ones or even other things out of them. I would like to try this out and make a research/comparison with self-made vs. purchased/shipped/mass-producted clothing.


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But why do I want to work with fabrics?

Fabric comes in all kind of forms, colours and textures. It is more durable than paper. It moves, flows and


Step 1: Searching for fabric/clothes which could be used

Starting point: Which fabric can I find at home?



Step 2: Searching for inspiration on how to work with textile

Artists: https://www.artmajeur.com/de/kunstler/textilkunstler

General forms of art I could include: Journaling/Sketchbooking

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Watercolour/Aquarell

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-> (Maybe I could use different kinds of fabric layers to create new colours like in watercolour drawings?)

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Of course making something fashion-related is kind of obvious when working with fabrics...

First Sketches

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...but why not approach it more like an artist and not a fashion-designer?


References

Microbial Fuel Cell