Excerpt from interview with Otto von Busch, Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design, for Fashion Projects’ ‘Fashion + Sustainability – Lines of Research’ series. Von Busch is the author of selfpassage.info. > Mae Colburn,“Interview with Otto von Busch: Fashion + Sustainability—Lines of Research Series.” Fashion Projects, May 31, 2012.
> Cookbook by Otto von Busch
“It comes down to basic freedoms: if I know how to fix my bike, I have a choice that I didn’t have before. Knowing how to do something also produces another attendance to the world, another attention, another awareness. If I, as a designer, teach people to reclaim the sewing machine, they can also learn to see the complexity of the details of clothing – they can recognize good craftsmanship, and that’s an agency of empowerment, I think.”
