Sharing the work of the MakeFashion Edu designers is paramount to the process. Young designers have the opportunity to tell their story with their designs to a public audience. This encourages and motivates designers to improve and adjust their work. Our three favorite methods to share stories and fashion tech pieces are:
STEAM Runway
The Gallery
For a more traditional student exhibit, students can arrange their design work leading to their pieces on a poster board or trifold, and then either wear the outfit or display it on a mannequin. Attendees can move among the displays and talk to the student designers directly!
Virtual Exhibition
During the pandemic, teachers and students came together to showcase their projects in an online space that worked like a video game with live conferencing.
Early in 2020 we took the opportunity to explore new ways of exhibiting and collaborating, and found new mediums for interacting in familiar ways. Using Mozilla Hubs, students created their own worlds and exhibition spaces for their real-life creations, linked together in a network of portals. Teachers without time to build a space could submit content on behalf of their classes, and volunteers placed it in a virtual world.
Mozilla ended its Hubs service in 2024. The videos below show how the virtual exhibitions worked.
Getting started with Mozilla Labs
Virtual Maker Exhibition (Teacher Tour)
“MakeFashion Edu is fun, it gets the students engaged, and everyone is really excited about the runway show!”
— M. Thatcher, Primary School Art Teacher
“The program introduces young students to technology who started out only interested in art. It brings the two together in a way that makes students imagine big things!”
— Aisling Yue, Makerspace Manager