Gathering stitches - a blue TARP - red stickers - subversive post it moves. As a means of shifting the apparel sector’s unsustainable trajectory towards more resilient and responsible practices Emily Carr University’s Textile Adaptations Research Program (TARP) seeks to explore adaptive relations and processes applicable to cloth. Our aim is to identify novel modes for engaging with cloth-based products that are inclusive of change while maintaining responsible relations pertaining to the environment and society.3 themes drive our work:Disturbance and Interplay, seeking a means to contribute to new artifacts with an emphasis on exploring appropriate mechanisms for the conservation and provision of additive narrativesRenewal/Regeneration, looking to new applications of used and unused resources through material regenerationRe-organization, the development of scalable hybrid modelsSEE ALSO: https://materialmatters.ecuad.ca/aboutv