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CREATING SUSTAINABLE FASHION

3. FROM WASTE MATERIAL

As published on the IBO blog dated October 17, 2019.
https://blogs.ibo.org/blog/2019/10/17/creating-sustainable-fashion-from-waste-material/

IB Middle Years opportunities for teachers and worked together to develop
Programme (MYP) students to integrate skills and ways to reuse, recycle and
students from DPS take principled action through up-cycle waste through
International reflect on the units in various subjects. skillful, sensitive designs and
the opportunity to create performance.
sustainable clothing Focusing on the philosophy
and jewelry from waste of sustainable design as the The inquiry through
material. theme of the year for DPS brainstorming led budding
International, the design and designers of MYP Year 3
MYP studies provide performing arts department to think of designs which
would leave an impact on the
community, and materials that
are seen as trash could be up-
cycled. This supported the
unpacking of the statement
of inquiry; ‘Designers
have a responsibility to
consider sustainability when
consuming resources to
develop a solution’ and the
exploration of the global
context ‘Globalization and
sustainability’

MYP students undertook this
project as part of their unit of
product design and theatre,
to give a new lease of life to
the waste from the cafeteria,
garden, and hand-me-downs.
The student’s kick started
the project by organizing a
collection drive in the school
for waste material that was