Reusing and redesigning old-fashioned clothes, assembling a shelf for storing tools from jeans or configuring items from design from disposable care and hygiene items. This is the basis of the six projects presented by students from design of the University of Navarra Navarra in the activities that, on the occasion of the European Week for Waste Prevention, have been organized by the Office for Waste Prevention and Promotion of Circular Economics of the Government of Navarra. Two of these projects are included in the subject Circular Design, taught by Professor Silvia Pérez Bou, and have included garments donated by the association Madre Coraje. What goal pursued? Among others, to promote a sustainable consumption model , the Economics circular and, at the same time, to encourage creativity and the work of young entrepreneurs.

Under the name Nanacore, the students have sought to give a second life to used clothes, which we discard from our closets for not following trends but are still in good condition, decontextualizing their functionality and creating current and innovative garments. "This idea was born thanks to the NGO Madre Coraje that provides us with garments from its thrift store with the need to open up to a new audience and get rid of the stigma of dressing with second-hand clothes raising awareness in turn, of the benefits of this circular and sustainable action," explains student Juan Manuel Fernandez. "With this project we want to avoid continuing to buy large quantities of clothes that have negative consequences both in the way they are produced and their environmental impact after disposal". 

Marina Martínez, Judith Gahigiro and Idalia López have presented Denimstore, a project that proposes an original tool storage system for school students based on a pair of pants. "The idea arises from solving two needs: to prevent garments that are not in use from ending up in the environment and to offer the students of design a place to put their materials while they develop their projects in the workshop. It is a shelf made of denim and pants that adapts to the workshop's own chairs so that students can place their tools in a more orderly fashion and make it easier to locate them while they work," explains Marina Martínez.

The third project, carried out within the subject Design Studio, has been Endless Care, which consists of making pieces of design from disposable objects for care staff and hygiene. "The idea arises from a research on a area of interest: consumerism, which after a phase of exploration and deepening on the topic leads to the design of a collection of pieces of design giving a second use to an accumulation of disposable objects within the sector of care and hygiene with a result of a material and conceptual exploration", highlights the student Juan Manuel Fernandez.

Two other projects carried out by second-year students reinterpreted a regional costume from black clothes donated by the Traperos de Emaús collective; and finally, a project on resistant joints made from wine bottle corks was exhibited.