Universität Für Angewandte Kunst, Wien
Elisabeth Fröhlich
Students had to develop a new method to produce clothes, inspired by ‘Join Collective Clothes. This is a modular system inviting people to create clothes together. An open-source manual explains how to make the four different shapes that together create a complete outfit. Each person can modulate the clothes they wear and have a completed outfit. Each shape can be made by someone else; everyone can join.
Students who participate in ‘Join Collective Clothes’ also collaborate with primary schools. It is important that they develop many models together. This method is mainly focused on communication, as collaborative design processes usually do. One the one hand, there is a ‘loss’ of the traditional authorship role, but collectively, a new collaborative authorship emerges.