Field notes, interviews, event recaps, videos and press coverage from the global remanufacturing community.
Iro Iro
I don't think there is an absolute solution. We need to try everything, and we need to have, like the small and the big and the weird and the ordinary and the extraordinary come together. It has to be diverse, and it has to be a tapestry of diversity, and it cannot be a homogenized.
The Shared Bag
I think sewing and upcycling, it seems like it's like a single person is doing it alone. That people are doing it on their own. But it's a big community, and we want to bring people together.
Glass Textile & The Shared Bag
To industrialise upcycling, you need to turn a 'one-of-a-kind' piece into a 'ten-thousand-of-a-kind' process.
Kantamanto Market
We have to embrace upcycling and sustainability as a way of life
Kantamanto Market
When we open the bale, it is just not enough. You would find out some of the clothes torn, … some stained by paint, some just looked like they were used to clean in a warehouse and such things were all lumped into one bale and sent to us. All this was causing me to run at a loss. Money I had saved up over some number of years began to get exhausted.
