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Upcycled Sajada: Creating Sustainable Prayer Mats

Tika Pratiwi Sufyan

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Tikablah (a.k.a Tika Pratiwi Sufyan) is a London-based Design Manager and a part-time photographer who is actively engaging on producing creative projects.

Graduated from Architecture school, Tika chose a turning road. She has shifted into a copywriter and graphic designer. Tika has experienced in creative project management, community engagement, visual campaigns, creative writing, and producing creative content for social media.

As an MA Design Management candidate at London College of Communication, the University of the Arts London, Tika is keen on learning about end-to-end design process, as well as content curation and delivery through story-telling. Furthermore, she is highly interested in collaboration and social-driven projects.

In her spare time, she stays active capturing other people’s moments through photography and cook her favourite Indonesian soul food. 

Tikablah (a.k.a Tika Pratiwi Sufyan) is a London-based Design Manager and a part-time photographe...

Salah, or a prayer, is deeply intertwined with spiritual fulfilment and cultural identity for practising muslims. Muslims usually use prayer mats for daily prayers. However, daily rituals relying on manufactured prayer mats raise sustainability concerns amid issues around material waste from production.

This project explored sustainable prayer mat design opportunities reflecting islamic environmental ethics to address textile waste while meeting Gen Z and younger Millennial muslims’ needs in the UK.

Please see all creative process here.

Final work

Problem Definition

Problem Definition

Diagram of how existing prayer mat production is contradictive with the concept of sustainability. The linear process (left side) is the combination of the process from 3 Muslim product brands (based on the researcher’s interviews) and standard fashion design process model from PLATE conference 2015 (Han et al., 2015).

Outcome using four characters of design process (from Systematic Design Framework - Design Council)

Outcome

Four categories of design outputs based on Systemic Design Framework (Design Council, 2021). 

  • Workshop 1
  • Workshop 2
  • Workshop 3

Research and process

  • Stakeholder mapping
  • Research Framework
  • Triple Diamond Framework

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Upcycled Sajada: Creating Sustainable Prayer Mats

Salah, or a prayer, is deeply intertwined with spiritual fulfilment and cultural identity for practising muslims. Muslims usually use prayer mats for daily prayers. However, daily rituals relying on manufactured prayer mats raise sustainability concerns amid issues around mate...

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