Hi I'm Rachel Wood and I worked with the Boroondara community to make universally repaired.

Your wardrobe is just one sort of little thing but it's something that

you have a lot of control over. Fast fashion has just become more convenient. It's just the norm when we buy fast fashion we're not really thinking about what happens to the item of clothing afterwards. Everything happens really quickly. You buy it fast. It's often made quite cheaply, so even if you do wear it and love it it's probably not going to

have the longest lifespan. Ultimately it'll probably go into landfill.

I'm really passionate about educating people on how to repair clothing themselves and how to go back to that make mend do mentality.

we conducted a series of workshops throughout Boroondara. we went

into schools neighborhood houses um markets. we asked the community for donations and we took those items and we taught the people in those groups how to make a loom out of a found object like a milk bottle.

Usually something in the recycling bin can act as a loom. we taught people the construction methods of weaving so on the little plastic loom

we created little repair patches and we taught people how fabric is made and from that each little piece was sewn together into the shape of an item of cloth clothing and that clothing is what's represented behind me.

each of the community artworks has been stitched together using soft plastic um to come up with my representation of the ozone layer. I chose the ozone layer as a way to represent fast fashion because the ozone layer, the hole in the ozone layer, is something that we need to band together as a group to repair. I thought that was significant because it's like having holes in our clothing and if we're all learning how to close the holes in our clothing that's going to contribute to also repairing the ozone layer. I was given pieces that were created by someone as young as 3 years old and someone in their 80s and it's been such a beautiful way to bring people together collectively to work on something and to talk about the issues that we're facing and and how it affects everyone really differently. It's just been really great to collectively come up with a way to find Solutions and create a circular economy