My Ugly Fleece Friend (MUFF) - Sustainable Production / SDG12

MUFF is a short-term project at the Carlo Schmid Oberschule about sustainable and creative use of recycled pieces of fabric. 16 students in the age of 14-16 years learn how to design, create and sew various objects, only by using their proper hands and simple instruments like scissors, needles, threads and buttons. The students also learn basic technics of working with felt material. They can either create a Classical Muff-“Monster’ or bring their own fantasies into the process, as they can define every step and detail of the process, i.e. colors, forms, designs, threads and buttons. Since we're only working with leftovers of polar fleece and other materials to create our new fancy MUFF, our objects are produced in a fully sustainable way. At the end of our project, we're trying to give our new creative MUFFs a “personality and life’. We will be writing short fictitious texts about our fancy objects, as we might want them to get “familiar” with us — ugly or not ☺︎. Some of the students might even ‘play’ short theatre-dialogues with the MUFFS, giving them “real” thoughts, feelings and/or different voices. For our final presentation we will develop a short quiz about sustainable production conditions, asking visitors of our MUFF-exhibition questions, while discovering our “beautiful-ugly friends’ in our show-room. We think, this project is a great chance to get students interested for sustainable production (SDG 12).