Upcycling clothes with embroidered emoji
This page on Creating Upcycling clothes with embroidered emoji describes a product development case.
To plus your Upcycling of clothes
Before detailing the steps that we will follow in the launch of this project.
It should be pointed out that a similar project had already been launched. Indeed, on Thursday 11 to Friday 12 November 2021 between 10am and 6pm at the FacLab of the University of Geneva, was launched upcycling workshops with emoji embroidery, see https://faclab.ch/node/76 . Workshops that aimed to upcycle clothes by embroidering emojis on them.
This project had rather satisfying results. Indeed, 20 designs were made for the 16 participants. But only 4 participants asked to upcycle but all expressed a future interest in saving their textiles through embroidery. In general participants were pleased with the results and most also expressed a desire to learn more.
2. Create a plan for interview
Interview
We should start by asking engaging questions. In relation with the service we want to offer such as:
- Would you like a way to bring your used clothing back to life?
- Do you know what upcycling is?
Or in relation to their willingness to reduce their clothing waste/ find a way to be more sustanaible :
- Would you be willing to pay for a service that offers you the opportunity to keep your clothes and reduce your waste ?
We can also ask them questions about their management of their used clothing and if they are facing any constraints regarding the management of their clothing:
- What do you do with your used clothes or damaged clothes? Do you throw them away ? do they resell them? do they give them away?
- Do you ever have problems while managing your clothes? Is it hard for you to discard old clothing?
Then it would be important to present our service, explain its purpose, how it achieves this goal. Ideally show how it can solve some of the concerns raised in the interview.
After that, it would be important to present an example of upcycling clothing. Show pictures of the garment before the transformation and then show the final result to highlight the difference. Finally we could also consider a more practical example that would give the interviewees the opportunity to see how the upcycling process is done: from the selection of the motif, scanning, testing, reshaping and the final embroidery on the clothing.
https://edutechwiki.unige.ch/fr/Liste_des_emojis_%C3%A0_broder
- early product testing (procédure, prix, choix de motifs, etc.)