The New Clothes engages consumers in constructing new meaning, value, and potential from worn clothing. It is a framework for participation consisting of a replicable maker-space event and an online open-source platform. Users are facilitated through a series of design activities in which they deconstruct a piece of their own clothing and reconstruct a new transformed garment. We tried to approach sustainability with joyful, social, and transparent design; enabling proximity of...
Ellen Russell
work
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2013The Canoe Residency is a collaborative effort with Erich Stussi, in which we are creating an ongoing artist residency in a canoe, and arranging for a series of ‘explorations’ through a range of both physical and conceptual spaces.
We are interested in facilitating creativity, trust and community through new relationships and experiences. Local artists are brought aboard for unique expeditions in which they...
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2013This video was made for the use of the David Suzuki Foundation and became part of the Rewilding Vancouver Exhibit on now at the Museum of Vancouver.