Katherine Soucie

Reuse Education Community Engagement Workshops + Masterclasses

2025 Workshop - On the Cards with Green Grads, Heal’s, Upcycling Workshop, London, UK.

Material Research: UK sock manufacturing waste, waste diversion, material activism, craft applications, DIY card making, reuse education, community engagement

Masterclass - Sustainable Design and Future Forecasting, Central Saint Martins, Hong Kong Design Institute, London, UK. Custom 5 day course.

Material Research: zero waste design, mending, repair, re-design and re-making, material activism, circular reuse strategies

2019 Artist in Residence, a(MEND), City of Vancouver, Yaletown/Roundhouse, Vancouver, Canada.

Community Engagement Workshop - 6 weekly Workshop Series exploring re-making, repair and co-creation through waste. Material Research: waste textiles, zero waste, mending applications, craft as social practice, community outreach, co-creative/collaborative production, reuse education, material activism, sustainability 

2018 AIR Solid Waste and Recycling Art Residency, Solid Waste and Recycling Residency, City of New Westminster Art Services and Engineering Department.

Community Engagement Workshop- 2 day Workshop Series - Detritus Printing: Zero Waste Printing with Waste for adults and children. Material Research: post-consumer waste, waste diversion, waste printing, DIY materials, reuse education, material activism, circular economy 

2016 Artist In Residence, Scrap Exchange: Centre for Creative Use and Reuse, Durham, NC, USA.

Masterclass - 2 days - Zero Waste Dyeing: The Sequential Method + Acid Dyes

Material Research: pre consumer waste, zero waste dyeing, waste diversion, material activism, craft applications, resource preservation, reuse education, community engagement 

TILT Artist in Residence, HCMA Architecture + Design, Vancouver, Canada.

Community Engagement Workshop - Cast ON//Cast OFF: 3D Knitting Workshop for Architects.

Material Research: pre consumer waste hosiery, obsolete technology, craft applications, knitting, circular knitting, remanufacturing, material development, reuse design thinking

Row 1 - HCMA, Cast ON//Cast OFF, DIY Loom Knitting, Vancouver

Row 2 - Solid Waste Residency, Detritus Printing, New Westminster, Canada

Row 3 - Masterclass - Sustainable Design and Future Forecasting, Central Saint Martins, Hong Kong Design Institute, London

Row 4 - Heal’s, On the Cards, Green Grads, Sock Upcycling, London

Zero Waste Dyeing: The Sequential Method + Acid Dyes Masterclass Scrap Exchange, Durham, North Carolina, USA, 2016

This masterclass introduced participants to a circular approach to colour design through zero waste dyeing with acid dyes. Using the Sequential Dye Method, students learned how to design a dyeing process that reuses dye baths in sequence, creating a cohesive colour palette while conserving water and materials.

The course began with the preparation of acid dye stock solutions, establishing a foundational understanding of dye strength, saturation, and behaviour. Students explored how different hues within the acid dye family vary in their chemical performance—such as the relative weakness of primary yellow compared with the higher strength and heat sensitivity of turquoise—and how these properties can guide sustainable colour planning.

Through guided demonstrations and hands-on experimentation, participants developed colour categories and swatches based on recipes they create during the session. The sequential method encourages mindful observation of dyes as they exhaust and transform, revealing how subtle shifts in tone can inform new design directions, recipes and strategies.

By the end of the masterclass, students will have produced a set of dyed fabric samples, detailed recipes, and a replicable zero waste dyeing strategy that integrates creative reuse and material stewardship into their own textile practice. This course applies circular design thinking to dye processes, showing how resource efficiency can become a source of creative innovation.

Mend + Transform + Renew Masterclass Edith Cowen University, Perth Australia, 2016

This 2-day intensive workshop frames at Visible Mending as form of Fashion + Textile Praxis and research method.

This workshop aided in the regeneration of materials and methods, addressing innovative reuse, restoration and preventative approaches within fashion and textile practices. It investigates creative process and textile waste transformation through mending and repair applications -- resulting in outcomes that are guaranteed to inspire new design ideas, methods and applications.

This thought provoking workshop was designed to create opportunities to address failure in the creative design process, explore materials and transform design methods and decisions. Visible Mending is more that just a visual act of mending and repair, it is a method of practice designed to expand our skillsets and creativity.

Waste Interview Tracing Method and Re-enforcement Design Development