vision
At the first lockdown, seamstresses wanted to help and masks were missing everywhere. Résistance connected them — volunteer sewing, fabric donations, requests — at the scale of a city.
In a crisis, coordination speed matters more than technology: connecting volunteer seamstresses, fabric donations and mask requests — a collective able to produce physically at scale, built on no-code tools in a few days.
at a glance
maturity · stopped, 2020
targets
technologies
shutdown
Born from a unique window — collective mask-making during COVID. Once the crisis passed and the workshops closed, the model lost its reason to exist: a voluntary stop, mission accomplished. A project can succeed and end.
legacy
Proof that a collective can produce physically at scale and coordinate via crowdsourcing — and the lesson that event-driven momentum doesn't make a scalable model.
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