‘Wear & Care’ Activation Kit

As part of RMIT PlaceLab’s ‘Wear & Care’ Research Project, this activation kit is a collection of insights, ideas and inspirations from the Research Project to activate fashion rewilding practices within your home or local community.

‘Wear & Care’ considered Brunswick’s future as a creative fashion district by exploring methods of fashion “rewilding” accessible to the community.

The Research Project included a series of community repair workshops, a research survey on “rewilding” fashion for the community, a student second-hand clothing redesign display, a research survey for Brunswick-based second-hand clothing retailers, several garment-led group conversations, a community forum in collaboration with RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles, and finally a ‘Wear & Care’ Exhibition.

This Kit forms part of a collection of outputs and resources emerging out of ‘Wear & Care’ and focuses on sharing learnings from the Project to guide local fashion rewilding practices.

We aim to share it with our community, local place-making partners like Merri-bek City Council, the Brunswick Design District (BDD), and beyond!

‘Wear & Care’ Activation Kit Folder.

What is included in the Activation Kit:

  • 1x ‘Wear & Care’ Activation Kit Folder (A4)
  • 1x Community Clothing Repair Guide Booklet (A4)
  • 1x Clothing Repair Decision Tree Poster (A3 folded)
  • 3x Community Initiative Flyers (A5)
  • 10x Activation Cards (A6)

 

Unravel Community Clothing Repair – A Guide

This compilation from our ‘Wear & Care’ Research Project is designed to help you activate clothing repair in your community. It is not a definitive guide, but rather a collection of our insights to help empower you to bring your community on a repair journey too.

> Download Community Clothing Repair Guide Booklet

Community Clothing Repair Guide Booklet.

Clothing Repair Decision Tree Poster

We created this ‘decision tree chart’ based on the community’s vote at our ‘Wear & Care’ Community Forum. Among the three options to vote from, ‘How to Engage in Clothing Repair’ was determined by the community to be the most useful to add to the collection in our Activation Kit.

> Download Clothing Repair Decision Tree Poster

Clothing Repair Decision Tree Poster (A3 folded).

Community Initiative Flyers

This set of three Community Initiative Flyers reflects some of the passionate organisations, community activities and solo practices we learnt about throughout the ‘Wear & Care’ Research Project. We hope this will inspire you to create and participate in your own local community initiatives.

> Download Community Initiative Flyers

Community Initiative Flyers.

Activation Cards

The RMIT PlaceLab ‘Wear & Care’ Research Project has gathered ‘everyday’ practices that support a local response to “rewilding” fashion.

This Activation Card collection is inspired by the local actions and insights we’ve learnt from our community of wearers, repairers, creators and retailers.

Use these cards to build your own methods and mindsets around how to better wear and care for clothes in your wardrobe, home and neighbourhood.

> Download Activation Card Collection

Activation Cards Collection.

‘Wear & Care’ Activation Kit. Photos: Vanessa Duque.

Alternatively, Download All Our Activation Kit Files in a Zip Folder!

The Team behind the Activation Kit

Our RMIT PlaceLab team, project contributors and collaborating researchers involved in the creation of this Activation Kit include Hayley Thompson, Nhu Bui, Julia English, Louise Godwin, Frances Gordon, Kiri Delly and Brock Hogan.

With many thanks to our collaborating researchers Dr. Georgia McCorkill and Dr. Rebecca Van Amber from RMIT’s School of Fashion & Textiles and ‘Repair Cafe at RMIT’, contributing repair and alterations workshop facilitators Tamara Russell and Sang Thai and our wonderful Community Collaborators and attendees across the ‘Wear & Care’ Research Project activities, with special mentions to Paula Hanasz, Michelle Loft and Arky Ryall who’s words appear in the Activation Kit.