midterm update
The one-year ‘Designing Shape Changing Textiles’ project has hit its halfway point. With a consortium bringing in social, ecological, technical and design perspectives, we’re learning to surpass the anthropocentric and are creating material samples and speculative scenarios inspired by symbiosis and principles of ecomimicry.
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New Materialism, Rhizomatic Structures and Fungi
On January 11, 2023, Daniëlle Bruggeman, Hanka van der Voet and Chet Bugter gave a lecture as part of the ArtEZ Honours Lab track on 'Speculative Futures'.
... read moreThe online portions of the conference are now available for replay on APRIA. Rewatch the exciting and stimulating discussion that happened during the 11 online events, which were curated by 11 fashion platforms and collectives.
... read moreThe SPRONG-research community 'New Ecosystems in Textile' focuses on a systemic approach to developing more sustainable, circular, and regenerative value chains in textile - with a central role for design.
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visiting fellowship at ArtEZ
new KIEM GoCI project
On November 17, we kicked off our new KIEM Go Ci project 'Designing Shape Changing Textiles'.
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In this essay, Hanka van der Voet and Chet Bugter write about the possibility of a new model for fashion (education), drawing inspiration from the distributed networks of mycorrhizal fungi, as well as the symbioses of lichen.
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looking back
We are looking back at a wonderful and insightful conference ‘Ways of Caring – Practicing Solidarity’!
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