Mira Musank (she/her) is an interdisciplinary textile upcycling artist who transforms textile waste into custom garments, focusing on the intersection of slow fashion practices, sustainability solutions, and climate activism. A community-taught artist, she creates one-of-a-kind pieces from discarded textiles and second-hand clothes, with circularity as a counteract to overconsumption central to both her artistic expression and community engagements.

Through Fafafoom Studio, she has recirculated over 350 pounds of textiles. Her signature Gathered Cloths project—made from 100% sewing remnants—has gained international recognition. In 2025, she launched Rethink the Runway with 7 community events during SF Climate Week, exploring intersections of fashion, sustainability, and environmental consciousness.

Musank frequently collaborates across disciplines and cultures, creating work that spans from virtual reality installations to in-person community experiences. Her work has been featured in global publications including Cleanline (USA), Simply Sewing (UK), and Elle (Canada).

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Gathered Cloths: The Immersive Experience of Fashioning Textile Waste

Gathered Cloths: The Immersive Experience of Fashioning Textile Waste addresses the global textile waste crisis by mobilizing communities to transform their relationship with clothing consumption through immersive XR technology.

The experience empowers sustainable fashion enthusiasts who often feel paralyzed by ethical consumption complexity, converting anxiety into agency through virtual textile manipulation and personalized CO2e impact calculations. For climate activists and environmental workers, it provides a powerful educational tool that translates overwhelming statistics into visceral, embodied understanding through interactive storytelling. Technology communities discover meaningful applications for immersive media beyond entertainment, expanding climate activism's demographic reach.

The project creates digital-to-physical pathways connecting participants to local tailors, repair cafés, and upcycling workshops, strengthening neighborhood economies while reducing waste streams. Individual interactions generate cumulative environmental impact data, creating community-scale visualizations that transform the paralyzing complexity of global textile waste into achievable, shareable progress—bridging virtual experience with tangible local action.

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In collaboration with Agog