IMASUS
NEW EUROPEAN BAUHAUS FESTIVAL · 2026 Imagineering Sustainability — Erasmus+
The Challenge Cards

Ten Challenges

The real tensions facing the textile sector — drawn from research with industry, educators and practitioners across Europe. Each workshop team takes one.

How might we…
Material
Design
System
Business
C1Material
How might we reduce virgin-material use in textile production?
Substituting, reducing or rethinking the primary material inputs — from fibre cultivation to yarn and fabric.
C2Material
How might we recover value from post-industrial textile waste?
Capturing the value of off-cuts, selvedges and yarn waste before it becomes post-consumer waste.
C3Design
How might we design garments for longer use phases?
Construction, repairability and attachment as design levers for a longer active life.
C4Design
How might we design for modular repair and adaptation?
Separable parts and standard interfaces that let a garment evolve with its wearer.
C5Design
How might we design for end-of-life disassembly and recyclability?
Material selection and joining techniques that enable mono-material streams at end-of-life.
C6System
How might we close textile material loops at a regional scale?
Collection, sorting and reprocessing — the actors, flows and coordination a working loop requires.
C7System
How might we improve traceability across textile supply chains?
Making material and social conditions visible to downstream actors across long, fragmented chains.
C8Business
How might we build business models around longevity, not volume?
Services, repair, second-hand — value capture that doesn't depend on selling ever-more new units.
C9Business
How might we make sustainable options accessible across price points?
Cost, distribution and access that make lower-impact choices the default rather than the luxury.
C10Business
How might we align practice with upcoming EU regulation?
Competitive, compliant practice under ESPR, the Digital Product Passport and the Waste Framework Directive.
Funded by the European Union Erasmus+ KA220-VET project “IMASUS: Imagineering Sustainable Fashion”
Grant Agreement No.: 2024-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000257495
Funded by the European Union
Project partnersMunkun · Lottozero · ECHN · INMA
Project websitewww.imasus.eu