Commission from Client Earth
This quilt was co-designed in close collaboration with lead project researcher Sam Hunter Jones and Apolline Roger, head of ClientEarth’s Innovation Lab and with the participation of ClientEarth’s staff. Chronicling the research journey and its generous contributors, the quilt narrates between initial and revised research questions - from exploring “How might ClientEarth help the UK clothing system shift to a model based on care and repair?”, towards “How can ClientEarth help to make the alternative UK clothing system based on care and repair more visible and accessible?”. Key elements of the quilt are designed to be interacted with, and iterated on; the centrepiece holds a removable and reversible speculative collage, while detachable “Postcards from the future” orbit the circular composition. The materiality and production of the quilt was carefully considered. Working with 100% upcycled materials, imagery was co-created with the ClientEarth team through workshops delivered in their London offices. Scrap materials were also sourced from stakeholders engaged, including wool from organisations promoting ‘soil-to-soil’ clothing and textile systems in the UK.
The composition moves radially through layered lines of enquiry; from systems thinking (pink), to stakeholders engaged (white), to case studies (red). Quotes from interviewees (white) and anecdotes from ClientEarth Staff (green) provide warm data to this research journey.
Key elements of the quilt are designed to be interacted with, and iterated on; the centrepiece holds a removable and reversible speculative collage, showing the current high street landscape versus how that image might be transformed in moving towards a clothing system based on care and repair. “Postcards from the future” orbit the circular composition, which are detachable and moveable vignettes of existing models aligned with the project.
The materiality and production of the quilt was carefully considered. Working with 100% upcycled materials, imagery was co-created with the ClientEarth team through workshops delivered in their London offices. Scrap materials were also sourced from stakeholders engaged, including wool from organisations promoting ‘soil-to-soil’ clothing and textile systems in the UK.
