This prototype is from World 159, in which clothing designers and suppliers must be licenced. You will see a blue-print for an App or Website that would be accessible on individual digital devices, as well as on tablets in the Co-Design Studios / Cafés, where customers can co-design a limited number of new garments, and re-create an unlimited number of worn, used, upcycled, and swapped garments. The Studio / Café spaces have a body scanner, 3D printers, and other technical equipment, regular sewing machines and tools, as well as a mending lab, textile care spaces, exhibition spaces for prototypes and innovative materials, and different community spaces and co-working spaces.
This Exploration was contributed by Kat Sark and Ana Sophie Mueller (located in Germany), developed from a World written by Spenninger Melissa, Belina Lim Fang Ci, Chin Meei, Alcina, Indira Varma, Hyesoo Im and Mannat Nurpuri (located in Singapore, India and Korea), 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 authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
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