Imagining Sustainable Textile Futures
A 60-minute workshop · New European Bauhaus Festival · Brussels
1
Discover the Open Toolkit
Resources, tools and a shared method — all open.
What we will do
One hour, five moves.
2
Meet the challenge
One real industry tension, shared by the whole room.
3
Map the system around it
Actors, forces and leverage points.
4
Reframe it into a direction
A Name, a Promise, a Principle.
5
Leave with one resource
A concrete next step to explore after today.
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A starting point
What would help the textile industry move from scattered good intentions to shared, usable change?
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In one sentence
IMASUS is an open learning and workshop toolkit for people working on sustainable textile futures.
It connects material knowledge, sustainable design strategies, challenge framing and collaborative workshop methods — for designers, educators, researchers, industry and policy.
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Three simple tensions
Good work exists. It doesn't travel.
01 · Research
Hard to use
Material research exists — but it is often locked in technical language and paywalled journals.
02 · Design
Hard to apply
Sustainable design principles exist — but they are hard to apply across whole systems.
03 · People
Hard to align
Many actors care — but they work from different languages, incentives and constraints.
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Sustainable design strategies
Four open modules for sustainable textile design.
A
Zero Waste Design
Patterning, cutting and constructing without leftovers.
B
Design for Recyclability
Materials and seams that can be unmade and reborn.
C
Design for Modularity
Garments that adapt, repair and grow with their wearer.
D
Design for Longevity
Pieces designed to last, age well, and stay loved.
imasus.eu/training-modules
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Behind the modules
A reusable publishing tool, not only an IMASUS output.
A Bridgetown-based ebook generator: web reading, PDF and EPUB export, and reusable source formats — ready to publish adaptable learning materials for any project.
github.com/Munkun-Estudio
Materials Library
From the lab bench to the design studio.
A searchable library of sustainable and innovative textile materials — translated from technical research into accessible educational language.
app.imasus.eu/materials
app.imasus.eu/materials
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app.imasus.eu/materials
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Where to start
Ten challenges drawn from real industry tensions.
Material
C1
How might we reduce virgin-material use in production?
Material
C2
How might we recover value from post-industrial waste?
Design
C3
How might we design garments for longer use phases?
Design
C4
How might we design for modular repair and adaptation?
Design
C5
How might we design for end-of-life disassembly?
System
C6
How might we close material loops at a regional scale?
System
C7
How might we improve traceability across supply chains?
Business
C8
How might we build models around longevity, not volume?
Business
C9
How might we make sustainable options accessible across price points?
System
C10
How might we align practice with upcoming EU regulation?
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The Imagineering framework
The Loom
A framework for exploring complex challenges, mapping the system around them, reframing possibilities, and shaping first actionable concepts.
Appreciating · Breathing · Creating · Developing
The creative move
Not a problem statement. Not a solution.
A direction that gives people energy and pulls action toward change — written in three parts.
01
Name
A phrase people remember.
02
Promise
What becomes possible.
03
Principle
A simple rule for decisions.
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The connective tissue
One app that weaves it all together.
A workshop management and participant journey app for complex innovation. In IMASUS it connects materials, training modules, challenge cards and workshop journeys — open-source, free to use, free to fork.
app.imasus.eu · github.com/Munkun-Estudio/imasus-app
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Take it home
Four ways to use it tomorrow.
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Explore
Search materials for a design or policy question.
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Teach
Use an open module in your class or training.
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Facilitate
Start a workshop from a single Challenge Card.
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Fork
Adapt the open-source app or ebook generator for another topic.
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How might we recover value from post-industrial waste?
Off-cuts, selvedges, yarn waste, and rejected lots produced during manufacturing — how can their material value be captured before it becomes post-consumer waste?
Worksheet · side A
Your turn · 6 minutes
Map the system around it.
01 · Actors
Who is involved?
Makers, users, suppliers, regulators, educators — who touches this challenge?
02 · Forces
What keeps it in place?
Habits, incentives, costs, rules — the forces holding the challenge steady.
03 · Leverage
Where could a small shift matter?
One place where a modest change could ripple through the system.
Worksheet · side A
Your turn · 8 minutes
Write a Name, a Promise, a Principle.
Use provisional language. It does not need to be perfect.
01
Name
A phrase people remember.
02
Promise
What becomes possible.
03
Principle
A simple rule for decisions.
Worksheet · side B
Your turn · 5 minutes
Test it through one lens.
What does this lens reveal, strengthen, or challenge in your direction?
A
Zero Waste
What would change if nothing could be thrown away?
B
Recyclability
Could it be unmade as easily as it was made?
C
Modularity
What if parts could adapt, repair and be replaced?
D
Longevity
What helps it last, age well and stay loved?
Worksheet · side B
Take it further
Keep pulling
the thread.
Keep the worksheet as a beginning. The next step is to research one resource, one material, or one actor that could make your direction more real.
App — app.imasus.eu
Training — imasus.eu/training-modules
Source — github.com/Munkun-Estudio/imasus-app
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Made together by
A consortium across design, research and education.
Munkun
Design studio leading toolkit, app and visual language.
Lottozero
Textile research centre — Prato, Italy.
ECHN
European Creative Hubs Network — community & reach.
INMA
Aragón Institute of Materials Science — CSIC & Universidad de Zaragoza.
Erasmus+ KA220-VET project "IMASUS: Imagineering Sustainable Fashion". Grant Agreement No. 2024-1-ES01-KA220-VET-000257495. Funded by the European Union. Views expressed are those of the authors only.
imasus.eu/partners
Optional · two or three voices
One phrase worth taking with you.
If one phrase from your worksheet feels worth saying aloud — we have time for a few voices. No pitches, no explanations.
Thank you · imasus.eu