International Upcycling Symposium 2020

Upcycling Advocate: Fostering Engagement and Empowerment Through an Upcycle Guidebook in Undergraduate Courses

As many researchers have stated, fast and mass fashion has created an overwhelming amount of consumption and waste in our world today. One way to reduce the amount of textile waste is to take garments that would otherwise be thrown away, and reuse, recycle and upcycle them. Education for younger generations regarding such issues and solutions is crucial as decisions for a sustainable future are tied to the knowledge that students of today have acquired during their studies and in the subsequent years. In this study, the students’ development of an Upcycle Guidebook was a way for them to explore new design ideas thinking about how garments could be made by basic sewing skills for upcycling while also testing the effectiveness of the book.

Cite article:

Chen, C., & Lapolla, K. (2021). Upcycling Advocate: Fostering Engagement and Empowerment Through an Upcycle Guidebook in Undergraduate Courses. In: Sung, K., Singh, J., Bridgens, B. (eds) State-of-the-Art Upcycling Research and Practice . Lecture Notes in Production Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-72640-9_18