HANDS ON – Action in the Chaos of Consumption
How does a boring chore turn into ultimate flow?
HANDS ON is social innovation in action – a project that doesn’t lecture young people, but encourages and empowers them. Instead of preaching sacrifice, we promote a shift in values: new skills are learned, and saying “no” becomes a powerful choice through active participation.
Together with the project team, young people co-develop an ongoing workshop format to be offered to school classes at MAISON SHIFT. They are empowered in the long term to break consumption patterns and get excited about alternatives like repair and reuse. Co-creative, participatory, and refreshingly different.
With HANDS ON, we want to show young people that sustainable consumption isn’t about giving things up, it’s about opening up new creative paths and feeling empowered.
HANDS ON is social innovation in action – a project that doesn’t lecture young people, but encourages and empowers them. Instead of preaching sacrifice, we promote a shift in values: new skills are learned, and saying “no” becomes a powerful choice through active participation.
Together with the project team, young people co-develop an ongoing workshop format to be offered to school classes at MAISON SHIFT. They are empowered in the long term to break consumption patterns and get excited about alternatives like repair and reuse. Co-creative, participatory, and refreshingly different.
With HANDS ON, we want to show young people that sustainable consumption isn’t about giving things up, it’s about opening up new creative paths and feeling empowered.
How does a boring chore turn into ultimate flow?
We join forces to question and rethink consumer values.
From knowledge comes action, from sacrifice comes empowerment.
The shift in values begins with your own hands.
Young people become agents of change, revolutionizing their own consumption habits.
We can make material life more humane if we understand better the processes by which things are made. (Richard Sennett: The Craftsman, Yale University Press, New Haven & London, 2008)
Partners:
MAISON SHIFT, Fashion Revolution Fachrichtung
Trends & Identity, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Funded by:
Innovation Booster Future Urban Society Zürich
Re-Source, Dossier Nachhaltigkeit, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste
Project managers:
Corinna Mattner
Henriette-Friederike Herm