Milly Harvey

The clothes Bristol buys become the city’s responsibility; dealing with our own textile waste to create new products or art, and educating, earning and connecting to one another in the process. The scheme encourages care, repair and re-wear. When this is no longer viable, poor quality textiles are gathered and repurposed, manufactured into carpet underlay and sent to Bristol Carpet Manufacturers Ltd This circular economy is fed by Bristol textile quarter and involves both industry and community. The re/fabrication centre becomes a physical, tangible demonstration of the process of production, use, repair and repurposing. Meanwhile it invites individuals to rethink the part they play in this process, and the processes of unsustainable consumption and globalisation. The textile industry has the second most water intensive processes, but not here. Becoming an asset to the river Frome on whose course we sit. The scheme cleans the river and is returned through the sunken garden to its course. This gives the community an opportunity to connect with the river and appreciate the role it plays in production.

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