The interdisciplinary "semester topic" of Prof. Dr. Marina-Elena Wachs, on "sketching and greening the (design) future", asks for a greater consumer responsibility, in trade and handling with packaging options and morals: wrapping, wrapping mail that is reused, for Textile, fashion design and packaging design! Likewise landscapes (cf. Christo art action) and buildings evoke a rethinking in the question of "packaging", of smart sustainable covering - a change of the a change in the way we deal with objects and media, for the sake of the (surrounding) world and for the sake of us humans.
An ethically sustainable "material - and cultural behavior" looks at our resources of the future: this semester with focus on water, water shortage, water consumption, processes and rituals with water in the everyday and at holidays. Thus, textile engineering is to lead into the next technical, material, feasible level, when we should avoid organic cotton, for example, and reach for material alternatives. "It's a book about a grassroots movement addressing the global water crisis. [...] In March 2018, the UN Water marked the release of its annual World Water Report with a dire warning: if we don't change our habits, five billion people could face severe water shortages in thirty years. Already today, 3.6 million people live in areas where water is scarce at least one month a year. [...] In addition to water shortages, in many areas of the world people do not have access to clean water." (Maude Barlow, 2020, p. 9 f.)
Meaningful resource and media management (including materials) in the 21st century challenges us as individuals and as a society, in search of future, social, sustainable design solutions. This is a question of identity; the cultural identity of each of us, within a particular culture that asks about origins: our origins are shaped by traditions, rituals, anchored in "cultural memory" (cf.: Jan Assmann). Aleida Assmann also describes how to learn from history. We have to ask ourselves how new smart sustainable processes of action can be designed, new rituals we create.... smart sustainable couple solution are the challenges in design and textile engineering... here next to come during the years 2021/22 by BA- and MA -students...
Interdisciplinary project Prof. Dr. Wachs 2021/22 – WATER RESISTANT
