We went on a trip, not knowing really what to expect. There was very little information about the innovation camp, but thankfully it all cleared once we started the course. There were students from arounf five schools around northern europe: from Denmark, Estonia and ofcourse from Finland (us form Lahti and students from University of Lapland)
The course was an introduction to a ecological and ethical fashion that we, future designers could practice in our design and concepts.
The idea was to divide into groups and design and produce in full scale or ½ scale a collection based on a given premise. My group had an assigment to design outfits using zero-waste technique and preproduction rollends. The whole class went on a trip to various estonian factories and manufacturers to get the leftover fabric for the project. It was beautiful.
We left early in the morning from the center of Tallinn by bus. Just half an hour at the city limit we were surrounded by fields of frozen arable crops.
On weekend, I had an opportunity to drag myself around the city. Even though the city is really familiar to me, it was fun just to go around aimlessly from one part of it to another or scout for new places with my classmates. One of the surprising places was Lennusadam. There was a Titanic
exhibition going on, which was actually very well built. It had everything from replicas of the cabins in the ship to huge ice walls. The ticket was great, each ticket had a name of pasengers of Titanic and
a short story, why they were traveling and at the end of the exhibition you could search for the passenger from a list to find out if they survived or not.
The course ended with a presentation of our concept and samples of what we had created.
Our concept evolved into a japanese styled futuristic zerowaste collection. Our main look was hakama shorts and a padded vest as well as a couple of ½ scale designs.
