Peiyuan Dong, offcuts awards

“What you consider as waste can be a resource” — Orsola de Castro

Fabric manufacturing waste is a big problem in the fashion industry. 400 billion square meters of garments will be produced for the clothing industry in 2015 and of which 60 billion square meters of fabric may be wasted in the making process. Fashion generates 4% of the world’s waste each year, 92 million tons, which is more than toxic e-waste. A lot of that comes from off-cuts from the production process. But completely eradicating any form of waste is impossible. The aim of this project is to make fashion sustainable by providing a solution to encourage fashion student to reuse fabric manufacturing waste.

Peiyuan Dong, offcuts awards log in system, introduce to the awards, and application guide

Reuse offcuts materials before they get recycled is able to reduce energy discharge. The fashion created by designers has inadvertently caused fashion waste, so designers need to play an important role in reducing or eliminating fashion waste. Design clothes by using offcuts materials can be the new fashion.

Carrying the aim of the capstone project is to make fashion sustainable by providing a solution to encourage fashion student to reuse fabric manufacturing waste.

Offcuts awards is a fashion competition designed for China’s leading fashion brand Urban Revivo. The fashion competition is open to every fashion design student. Student needs to verify identity and use the materials provided by Urban Revivo and submit the design work to offcuts awards. There will be 3 winners selected by award judges and each winner will receive rewards of $5000 scholarship from Urban Revivo and work as part of the design team at Urban Revivo.

Website is the perfect choice for this project, it allows students upload documents and modify it more easily than mobile apps.

Peiyuan Dong, offcuts awards judges, about this awards, account details and application forms

Peiyuan Dong, NGV Friday Nights

The aim of this project is to build a public space intervention at the main entrance of NGV to enhance the user experience. NGV is a perfect place for people to discover because of its rich collection, pleasant exhibition and exclusive culture atmosphere.

After interviewed 16 NGV visitors from the different cultural background and different age group. From the information of people we interviewed, the average age is 43 and it is in the age group of 40-59. Some Interviewee is from Melbourne and some of them from other cities of Australia and the rest of them are international students. Exhibitions are the most attractive for them to visit NGV. They enjoy the cultural atmosphere in here also the environment is good for them to spend weekend time with their families.

Interactive screen installed at the main entrance of NGV every Friday night will draw more attention from pedestrians pass by NGV and enhance the user experience of NGV visitors. NGV visitors can easily upload the images they took from the exhibition to the cloud by NGV Friday Nights app. The interactive screen will display images from the cloud, every image has 30s. Photos will change when users doing certain bodily gestures related to certain visual elements on displayed artworks. Playability and ease of play stimulate each user to actively use or play. While the AR feature provides more accessibility for NGV visitors to explore, experience and collect NGV exhibits whether on-site and everywhere.

Peiyuan Dong, NGV Friday Nights interactive screen

Use guide of the interactive screen, photos will change when users doing certain bodily gestures related to certain visual elements on displayed artworks. Playability and ease of play stimulate each user to actively use or play.

Peiyuan Dong, NGV Friday Nights AR

Use AR technology to combine real-world and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects. The AR feature provides more accessibility for NGV visitors to explore, experience and collect NGV exhibits whether on-site and everywhere.

Object feature:
AR provides an opportunity to take photos of limited KAWS sculptures. Allows you to take the limited KAWS sculpture home without having to pay for it or go to the art gallery exhibition.

Try on feature:
AR gives an opportunity to add a third dimension to artworks, bringing objects or scenes to life. Letting users virtually become some of the NGV artworks, they can do a certain bodily gesture related to certain visual elements on displayed artworks and the camera will detect them, the AR model will cover their body.