In World 101, garments have to be designed, personalised, produced and packaged in front of consumers by Asian designers to create interaction and awareness. The origins of this culture can be traced back to the golden age of department stores in 1796 when Harding, Howell & Co. first opened its doors and pushed for consumer interaction, experience and informed buying decisions.
What if …
garments had to be designed, personalised, produced and packaged in front of consumers by Asian designers to create interaction and awareness?
Issue targeted:
retail apocalypse, over-consumerism
Inspiration:
Being Hear documentary with Gordon Hempton, sound recordist & ecologist; Present & Absent by John Bathos, photographer; Black Earth by Fazil Say; department stores like Le Bon Marche, Harding Howell
This World was contributed by Adeline Biancha Gunawan, Jamie Lee Jie Yi, Teo Jia Xuan and Devon Kusuma (located in Singapore and Indonesia) using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the author and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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