Making Fashion Last 2024 - 2025 | Residency Program

OpenDot is thrilled to announce the launch of "Making Fashion Last - Residency program"! 

The program is dedicated to empower 4 talents to rethink and reshape our relationship with clothes by fostering innovation, sustainability and inclusiveness. 

The residency focuses on 3 pivotal themes, each addressing critical aspects to mitigate and tackle the impact of the fashion industry : Repurposing and Upcycling, Transformational Design and Fashion as a Mean. 

The call is open to Fashion Designers and Innovators, Researchers and Academics, Artists and Activists, Technologists and Engineers, Students and Recent Graduates.

You can find all the information about the program in the dedicated handbook.

During the residency the talents will work on a project focused on one of the three challenges:

#1 Repurposing and upcycling: from Fashion to … and vice versa

#2 Transformational design for adaptive fashion

#3 Dress the change: fashion as a means for climate activism

6 weeks residency programme (5 week development - 1 week setup + exhibition):

• Material budget: 500€ pr. Project
• 3 selectable digital fabrication training along the processes and machines available in the laboratory, the train will be aligned with the Residency program.
• 6 weeks free membership in Opendot
• Fully access equipped workshop and prototype facility
• Access to tools, repositories and resources developed by the DDP Consortium
• Networking and community building opportunities
• Creative talent profile on DDP website and online exhibition
• Mentorship from specialists within DDP network

• The residency can focus either on research and test of a process or machine or on a product development. 
• The output of the residencies must include the creation of a small set of samples or the development of clothes or accessories. 
• Develop, document and share! Resources for distributing your design elsewhere (repository, parts list, assembly manual, CAD files and similar) - must be uploaded to your google drive folder, WikiFactory and/or GitHub - CC licence (open source)
  
  

The proposal for the making fashion last residencies program must be submitted online in two phases!

First phase (from July 5th 2024 to October 11th) present your application through this form:

• Abstract of your proposal idea (max 1000 characters including spaces)
• Portfolio
• Curriculum vitae
• Motivational letter

October 17th: announcement of projects that go to second phase.

Second phase (in case the first phase is passed - from ⁠October 17th to November 18th)

• Context
• Problem/opportunity
• Why it is relevant to you
• Case studies
• Draft proposals (expand abstract)

⁠November 14th: final announcement of the selected projects for the Residency program.

Making Fashion Last is a project designed and curated by OpenDot within the Distributed Design project, funded by Creative Europe.