Reuse of clean waste from the fashion industry in sustainable design development with a focus on social responsibility

Abstract

The present article relates the concept of design in the social sustainability focusing on the environmental issues in vogue, threatened under an excessive generation of clean solid wastes during the mass production of products from existing industries, textiles and footwear, towards the consume of today's societies. The search for imminent solutions face to this problem are centralized on the sustainable design, aiming essentially the co-design based on upcycling principles and the methods of modular design, between designers and young adults with intellectual or physical disabilities, with intention to make creative proposals for new fashion products more sustainable, differentiated and with added value. In this mode, comes up the importance of a more social and ethical design, giving the participatory opportunity between amateurs and professionals to minimize the resources and production processes, and optimizing the life cycle of the product.