Innovative Fashion

Challenging youth to design garments or accessories that are creative, ethical & sustainable!

Coming In January!

Join us, January 10th, 2023, for this creative design challenge! The Innovative Fashion Innovation Challenge will inspire youth to discover, create and innovate fashion.

Youth will create fashion projects by learning more about sustainable and responsive materials. Get ready to design actuated garments and accessories that change form, while combining craft and technology to create textiles with new behaviors. Discover e-textiles, biofabrication, hybrid-body craft and so much more. Your challenge will be to rethink the fashion industry: making it more creative, more ethical and more conscious.

Teacher & Student Challenge Resources

The Innovative Fashion Innovation Challenge (January 10th – April 14, 2023) will give Teachers & Students hands-on learning tools, Brilliant Labs’ Project Specialist support, synchronous/asynchronous about, how to & design thinking workshops with kits, invitation to an exclusive Brilliant Labs guest speaker talk, a challenge showcase finale with six teams advancing to the Atlantic School MakerFaire with all expenses paid and more. Learn more!

Registration

Let’s connect and get ready to dive into the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals #1; No Poverty, #:5: Gender Equality, #6: Clean Water & Sanitation, #8: Decent Work & Economic Growth, #11: Sustainable Cities/Communities, #12: Sustainable Consumption & Production Patterns to name a few. Together we can design and create innovative products that will sustain healthy communities, people, wildlife and our planet. Questions?

Let’s Define Innovative Fashion

Welcome to the Innovative Fashion Innovation Challenge! Are you ready to innovate and design sustainable fashion practices and materials?

Fast-fashion is a serious problem. Fashion trends change quickly. There are seasonal trends, and now even shorter micro-trends because of Tik-Tok and celebrity influencers. With fast fashion, clothing and accessories are mass produced quickly and cheaply to keep up with the dizzying demand.

What if you could design products or clothes with materials you grow from nature? This concept is a part of Innovation Fashion movement. Meaning, the search for sustainable practices, materials and culture is needed to lower CO2 emissions, chemical waste, landfills and create zero unsafe and unfair labor conditions.

Challenge Highlights

Students: Combine craft and tech and create textiles with new behaviors. Discover e-textiles, biofabrication, hybrid-body craft and more to reframe the fashion industry, making it more creative, more ethical and more conscious.

Teachers: The main focus of the Innovation Fashion Innovation Challenge will be to design a learning environment that students need to succeed in designing and creating their projects. Your questions will guide their learning process and ensure learning outcomes are reached. Once you register you will access all the teacher resources and professional learning needed to meet your outcome goals.

Explore with Biomaking: Design with biomaterials.

Explore the world of Robotics: Make changing fashion projects using pneumatics and/or nitinol wire. (Pneumatic Fashion: Make dynamic garments and accessories triggered by air pressure.)

Explore Coding: Design Nature inspired computational patterns, try computational embroidery.

Explore Computer Aided Design: Design 3D printed living jewelry with planters.

Explore Fashion: Create your own Algae knits. Make your own wearable using sustainable materials or reuse old clothes.

Fashion Recycled: Materials found or rescued. Upcycle and design easy wear. (Example may be chip bags.)

Become A Social Entrepreneur: Find ways to recycle fibers.

Ready-Set-Show! April 17-21 2023, students will be required to produce a 5 minute video to explain their project, what they learned and how it will help during the Circular Making Innovation Challenge Showcase Finale. Register to get resources and rubric.

Brilliant Labs will choose one project per category (7) will be chosen from all Circular Making Projects. Winning *teams will travel to the Atlantic School MakerFaire, May 2023, to exhibit their projects.

*Travel and in-person School MakerFaires will adhere to any provincial health regulations.

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Sponsorship Opportunities

Is your organization looking for a fun way to support Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, & Mathematics (STEAM) education? Brilliant Labs is a registered charity dedicated to empowering youth to help solve real world problems today, while inspiring the careers of tomorrow.

We have four Innovation Challenges, summer camps, after school programs, teacher professional development and hundreds of student led projects that are funded each year. Let’s connect and find the right fit and marketing mix for your organization!

Thank You To Our Funders

Special thanks to our funders for supporting Brilliant Labs. Together we are empowering youth to create sustainable innovations now and in the future.

INNOVATION CHALLENGES AND OTHER YOUTH PROGRAMS ARE MADE POSSIBLE BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU. YOUR GIFT WILL HELP US CONTINUE TO OFFER FREE YOUTH PROGRAMS AND TEACHER SUPPORT. THANK-YOU!

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