Its that time again. Another project coming to close. I can’t believe that three weeks have flown by just like that! Here are my reflections on this project. How have you applied your research to the concept? I have applied my concept to the research in a variety of ways. The main research that applies…
Category: Rethinking/Redesigning
Remaking
Last week, I finally got round to making my blanket. I decided to only use fusing and sewing techniques as the weaving and knitting were too time consuming and were difficult to do. So one Friday morning and me in my pjs, decided to embark on the mammoth task. During the making of the final…
The Crisp Bag Project
Last week, I emailed the original Crisp Bag Project in Hastings about potentially sending my finished single use plastic quilt to them to use in their bivi bags . Their founder, Pen Huston, got back to me and has agreed to take my creation once I have created it! I have attached their Facebook page…
Just Keep Swimming?
From watching War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita, I have been more aware about my use of single use plastics. What I didn’t know, was the extent of plastics in the sea and how they are entering our food chain. The Guardian have written a very interesting article on How Plastic Got into our…
Collaboration with Grace
A Saturday afternoon, some plastics and some scraps of fabrics. Or the perfect afternoon for a collaboration with Grace. We set ourselves an hour to experiment with our scraps from our projects. Our projects actually interlinked together quite well, with Grace looking at the amount of textile waste, especially synthetic fabrics. This linked into my…
Testing Plastic Techniques
It has been a wild week of testing out plastic techniques in my room. Maybe its fumes, but I am actually really enjoying working with plastics. It has definitely got me out of my comfort zone but, also I feel really good about it too. Funky times. The research behind this project is about how…
Idea Update
My idea for this project is a quilt made out of the single use plastics that myself and my flatmates have collected in a week. It will be like a visual food diary. From watching the War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita, I have become more aware about my plastic consumption. I have become more…
Our War on Plastic
From collecting mine and my flatmates single use plastics in a week I discovered that we accumulated a lot of plastics. We collected 73 pieces of single use plastics per week. That’s 18.25 pieces per person. I sorted out all of these plastics in my room, and I was surrounded by them, as you will see below….
Plastic Textile Techniques
I am back with a new blog post furthering my project of Rethinking/Redesigning. This is the second post in the series, so make sure you look at the first one, of which you can find here, which just gives you the background research for this. So for this project, we have to research a technique,…
My War on Plastics
I would like to say that I am now a single-use plastic expert. Over these last few days I have been researching about how single-use plastics are having a real impact on the environment. Of course, there is still so much yet to know about the impact that plastics will actually have on the world…
To Rethink or Redesign?
Finally we have something to do! It is a little strange to be back at university but not really back. My room has become the studio and our flat has become the art school. However, I am so glad to be back in Edinburgh and starting my third year. How crazy! The first project of…
Layla Priya Chauhan 