Consider your brief or project aims. How could you concept and design to increase pattern efficiency (nested, square/geometric) and minimize pattern printing?

What prototype approaches are you planning to use? Can you use alternative approaches that avoid waste (E.g. digital samples, reducing/repurposing samples and prototypes)?

How could you leverage additive manufacturing (3D printing) to reduce prototype waste?

How could post-industrial scrap be integrated (aligned with brief, aesthetic and consumer needs/ desires)?

How could you adjust your business model to avoid waste (E.g. Made to Order quantities)?