Virtual Maker Exhibition
120+ min
Ages 11+
What Will You Learn?
Can’t have a live runway show? Why not host a virtual experience?
About This Adventure
Today, fashion designers are not limited to fabrics in their designs. Technology has become part of our story and is much more accessible. Young designers can use tech such as lights, sensors, and microcontrollers to tell their stories.
In this adventure, you will experience and experiment as we go through the MakeFashion Edu process to support campers as they:
learn – about the elements of fashion and circuits
design – a story and the wearable
construct – a fashion tech piece using recyclable materials and lights
exhibit – be seen! Our favorite medium is the runway.
You will be able to support your designers as they find their voices and tell their own stories through fashion pieces they create and share.
This adventure is divided into several sections, each with its own projects. The bolded project denotes the page you are on. The arrows mark the section you are in.
Hosting a Virtual Experience
During this past year our students and teachers were creative in finding other methods to showcase designs and tell the stories. We have used YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and other social media sites. We have found Virtual Reality is of the most interactive and successful methods of presenting the work remotely. Hubs by Mozilla is a free, accessible, and safe way to do so. In the virtual space, participants can view designs, move about at will, talk to other participants and meet the designers. Students who play video games are particularly adept at maneuvering around the space and can often help other students, as well as teachers, learn how to move and even create in the virtual space.
About MakeFashion
MakeFashion Edu is an international non-profit working to promote learning through fashion and tech. Through hosting workshops, reach-out and push-in activities, and larger events, MakeFashion Edu sees providing access for young designers to go to industry and project-based learning as one way to pull local communities together.
SteamHead makerspace is a network of people, spaces, and events who collaborate to improve equity in education as the path forward. We believe that by embracing design thinking and a maker-mindset, education can be more engaging and meaningful, and with that more effective in preparing students for success. Check their website for their courses.
