DreamYard Prep

Natural Fashion

FINALIST PROJECT

Madison Ragster, Majohngbeh Konneh, Jassica Ampofo, Nevaeh Dawkins

Natural Fashion is a project exploring the use of natural pigments and materials as alternatives to synthetic dyes and inks. Over the semester, students experimented with dyeing fabric, creating hand-made paints and inks, and harnessing UV light to trigger chemical reactions. These hands-on investigations into natural coloring processes inspired the development of a DIY fashion kit prototype, allowing users to mix natural ingredients to design and color their own fabric. The kit's debut application is crafting custom doll clothes, making sustainable fashion accessible and creative. The project bridges scientific experimentation with personal expression, demonstrating the potential of nature-based materials in everyday design.

Satbir Multani is a dabbler, learner, and hacker-of-trades in many art forms, from doing henna, to digital design through code and graphics, to woodworking and fabrication the list goes on and on. She’s constantly trying to mix art and design to create things that are beautiful, functional, and shows others that they can do it too. Satbir received her B.A. in Philosophy from The City College of New York with minors in biology, chemistry, and education and her M.P.S. from NYU Tisch where she studied emerging technologies and how to make them accessible through science, engineering, and art. She currently facilitates opportunities for youth to be creative within engineering via interactive museum exhibitions, research, and artist residencies and she is the Exhibits Operations Manager at The New York Hall Of Science and a Teaching Artist at the DreamYard Project.