REUSE
RECYCLE
REDESIGN
SO WHAT EVEN IS FUTURE FURNISHINGS?
Future Furnishings is a partnership project between the School of Art and Creative Technologies at University of Bolton, Bolton Council and Bolton at Home with the aim of developing sustainable communities.
The project involves a series of collaborative design and making workshops using textile waste and identifying ways that a products life can be extended. It is developing new ways for local organisations to work with local residents to reuse and repurpose household items in collaboration with design students at University of Bolton.
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The project aims to address social, economic and environmental sustainability with the help of residents and organisations in the town through workshops and events around material consumption. Central to this will be developing knowledge and skills that aim to address inequalities in society through sustainable living.
PROJECT ROADMAP
MAY
Students and community members go on multiple educational trips together and continue to share their knowledge and skills while creating their projects.
JUNE
Students and clients finish their pieces and prepare for the exhibition!
MARCH
Students receive the project brief and begin to develop their skills and learn about household textiles waste.
APRIL
Students meet their community clients for the first time and develop ideas together!
Sustainability
Community Collaboration
Reducing Household Textiles Waste
Exchanging Knowledge and Skills
“We are incredibly excited to share the creative outputs from this project with the wider community of Bolton – students and participants have demonstrated their commitment to the key issues that we face around textiles waste and the negative impacts on the environment, locally and globally, and this has made the whole project really worthwhile. Students and participants feel confident in sharing their experience and their knowledge and that is thrilling!”
Leanne Lewis, Future Furnishings Staff Lead
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