Commoning Situated Knowledge: Co-Teaching-and-Learning the ‘Design-Led Upcycling’ of Waste Clothing

Introduction: Second-hand Cultures in Unsettled Times

“…Other work directs practical circular design interventions in other sectors, such as charity shops(Earley et al 2021). Others address how critical awareness of sustainability in second-hand, and concrete repair and reuse craft might be shared and taught: from school workshops to design education(Dunstan 2021;Igoe et al 2021) and accessible critical writing on fashion and pop culture, as in the magazine Dismantle(Bernstein and Chatelain 2022). These efforts to repair broken circuits and systems within second-hand also extend to the municipal, such as the FABSCRAP textile recycling and reuse store in New York City, or ReLondon's (2021; Carter 2021) 'Love Not Landfill' campaign, too(Romo Chavez 2021;Carter 2021).…”