Xiaohui Li

Xiaohui is a product/service designer based in Shanghai, China. Always passionate to bring personal thinking and unique ideas on design to the teams she collaborates with. Her creativity and sensitivity in product/service design expands horizontally to works which include graphic design and photography. She firmly believes that design is an approach to improve human life in both tangible and intangible ways. #LOVELIFE&DESIGN.

Mjuktong. Upcycling textile waste transformation process for DIY material design.

Material Driven Design is playing an increasingly prominent role in the product design for innovation. More and more projects are focusing on transforming waste material into novel materials, in an upcycling manner. In the European Union, the amount of textile waste is estimated to be 5.8 million tons annually, the predominant treatments are incineration and landfill along with Municipal Solid Waste, which release a large amount of greenhouse gases. In this case, the problem of how to make reuse of textile waste appears. This paper has introduced a new material transformed from textile rags and egg packages – Mjuktong, as well as one possible upcycling system – Texcreting Process by the means of Do-It-Yourself (DIY) material design. The process is an individual self-production practice happening in the Mjuktong Craftsmanship Store.