29 augustus 2024
Tales of a t-shirt - Videos
The video's are part of the book Tales of a t-shirt. This book is the outcome of an experimental research and teaching project, aimed at rethinking how the garments we wear create relationships between producers, designers and wearers. The project has researched these relationships centered on the production of a dedicated t-shirt, designed, produced and put to use by the project partners, who are located in the Netherlands and India. This book provides an overview of the project trajectory, focusing on how the project has facilitated students from the vocational training colleges in Rotterdam (Netherlands) and Erode (India) to engage in co-creation, and encourage conversations on design, materials, labour, social inequality (caste), gender and value. The book is a resource for students and educators working in fashion-related fields at high-school, vocational training and early bachelor degree levels. Integral to the book are a number of short video clips, dedicated to the crucial phases of the process. This book will be a resource for college students and educators who are concerned with the production and use of textiles, particularly in relation to fair trade, circularity and sustainability in the garment industry. It aims to elucidate the textile value network that supports the production of cotton garments, illustrating the processes (designing, farming, ginning, spinning, weaving, dyeing, printing, cut-make-trim, and shipping as well as wearing, customizing, and discarding). It does this by following the production of a long-sleeved, unisex t-shirt co-designed by students in the Netherlands and India. Through videos and photos, as well as texts, the book aims to make this process accessible and engaging to fashion and design students. With the book we aim to raise the awareness of future students in relation to the production of garments by enabling them to follow their peers and colleagues as they participate in the production processes. Moreover, by enabling the students to engage with the stories connected to the diverse people who are involved in the production process and to learn about the challenges they face, we aim to empower the students to become more socially and environmentally conscious fashion designers. 1.1 VIDEO Project presentation at Zadkine.mp4: Leonie Sterenborg introduces the project to Zadkine College students in Rotterdam (production: LGGB team). 1.2 VIDEO Zadkine students visit Museum Rotterdam.mp4: Students of Zadkine College participate in a workshop at the Museum Rotterdam’s depot (production: LGGB team). 1.3 VIDEO Pitch of Alissety and Larisa.mp4: Alissety and Larisa’s winning pitch for the project T-shirt (production: Alissety Hirschfeld and Larisa Ramirez). 1.13 VIDEO Time lapse collaborative design.mov: Time-lapse impression of the collaborative design process (video: Gautam Muralidharan). 1.17 VIDEO Co-creation of the T-shirt.mp4: Jaswantee and Rasigapriya show the project T-shirt to Costume Design and Fashion students at ECAS (production: LGGB team). 2.3 VIDEO Gangayya_farmer.mp4: Meet Mr. Neeli Gangayya, cotton farmer from Pachipenta Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, who has been working with Raddis Cotton (production: Raddis Cotton). 2.4 VIDEO Ramalakshmi_farmer.mp4: Mrs. Ramalaksi, a 25 year old farmer, shares her experiences of regenerative organic cotton farming (production: Raddis Cotton). 2.5 VIDEO Seethamma_farmer.mp4: Mrs. Machala Seethamma of Pachipenta Mandal, Andhra Pradesh, shares her experiences of growing regenerative organic cotton (production: Raddis Cotton). 2.6 VIDEO Shyamala_farmer.mp4: Mrs Shyamala explains how growing regenerative organic cotton is sustainable, and provides her with good returns (production: Raddis Cotton). 2.7 VIDEO Ginner.mp4: Listen to Kannan, the manager of the Prathu ginning mill, who specializes in separating cotton seeds from fibers in the ginning process (production: Raddis Cotton). 2.13 VIDEO Spinning machines.mov: In Tamil Nadu’s factories, spinning is a highly automated process (video: Rachel Lee) 2.14 VIDEO Spinner.mp4: Varun Subramaniam, director of a spinning and knitting mill in Tamil Nadu talks about the need to make the garment industry more sustainable (video: Raddis Cotton). 2.15 VIDEO Knitting machine.MOV: Knitting machines automatically knit cotton thread into cloth (video: Erik de Maaker). 2.18 VIDEO Washing fabric.MOV: Cloth is washed in preparation for dyeing in industrial washing machines (video: Erik de Maaker). 2.25 VIDEO Sewing crew.mp4: Garment workers reflect on stitching the project T-shirt (production: Raddis Cotton). 2.28 VIDEO Workshop conducted at READ.mp4: The LGGB project team conducted several workshops with employees of the NGO READ, discussing the dilemmas faced by the garment industry and its workers (production: LGGB-team). 2.29 VIDEO Interview READ staff_1.mp4: READ employees interview each other about caste-related inequality in the garment industry (production: LGGB-team). 2.30 VIDEO Interview READ staff_2.mp4: READ employees interview each other about the working conditions in the garment industry, and possible solutions they envisage (production: LGGB-team). 3.2 VIDEO Introducing ECAS.mp4: A visual introduction to the Erode College of Arts and Sciences programme Costume, Design and Fashion (production: LGGB project team)." 3.4 VIDEO Handing out and dilemmas.mp4: Handing out of the project T-shirts to the students at ECAS (production: LGGB project team). 3.5 VIDEO Zadkine T-shirt customizing.mov: At Zadkine College in Rotterdam, students are making the project T-shirt their own (production: LGGB project team). 3.7 VIDEO ECAS customizing T-shirt.mp4: ECAS students went all-out in customizing their project T-shirts (production: LGGB project team). 3.8 VIDEO ECAS fashion show.mp4: At ECAS the students concluded the workshop with a fashion show (production: LGGB project team). 4.3 VIDEO Zadkine students formulate questions.mov: Zadkine College students formulate questions for the students in Erode (production: LGGB team). 4.6 VIDEO Zadkine students garment dilemmas.mov: Zadkine College students discuss the dilemmas created by today's garment industry (production: LGGB team). 4.9 VIDEO ECAS students respond.mp4: Students at ECAS engage with the questions formulated by the Zadkine College students (production: LGGB team). 4.10 VIDEO Zadkine students respond.mov: Discussing questions at Zadkine College that were posed by ECAS students (production: LGGB team).