ENTANGLED FUTURES: Weaving our ecological path

Together we will explore the human & the more-than-human as social & ecological threads in repairing the fabric of an earth-centred future

About this event

When: 8th March 2022, 5:30pm GMT

A hybrid event taking place in person at Central Saint Martins and live streamed via Zoom.

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This final lecture aims to expose the socio-environmental impacts of fast fashion and to explore ways to rethink the textile production through diverse examples of speculative design that emphasise on the cultural shift needed to reinvent our way of producing and consuming.

The lecture will follow from the projects led by the Centre for Sustainable Fashion presented by its director Dilys Williams, to the explanation of how speculative design can be a starting point to re-create our imaginary, promoted by Lorna Powell and Georgia Vincent, both alumni from London College of Communication.

We will discuss the Earth Logic Plan, a manifesto that urges to place ‘Earth before profit, before everything’ with one of its authors: Mathilda Tham and three postgraduate students. Migle Radzunaite (MA Fashion Futures), Vishal Tolombia, (MA Fashion Futures) and Hana Komanova (MA Biodesign), who will introduce their practices that embed, in very different ways, the 6 Landscapes of research implemented by this text.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES:

Professor Dilys Williams (FRSA is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion, which she established in 2008)

Guiding the centre’s exploration of fashion and sustainability, her work contributes to the study of fashion as a life well lived within ecological boundaries and practices of human equity. Through design practice, this is applied to new forms of education, business, public and political dialogue.

Mathilda Tham (Professor in Design at Linnaeus University, Sweden. She is a member of the board of Mistra, the Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, Sweden)

Dr Mathilda Tham’s work sits in a positive, creative and activist space between design, futures studies and sustainability. Originally a fashion designer, today Mathilda’s work is concerned with the design of futures scenarios for new ways of engaging with fashion, the design of processes of change and shared learning experiences, and the design of new research methods. Mathilda’s work is informed by the notion of metadesign: a higher order of design, the design of design itself, an emergent and open-ended design process that transcends disciplines.

Vishal Tolambia (Sustainability researcher and analyst, Pursuing an MA in Fashion Futures at the London College of Fashion)

A multi-disciplinary fashion designer and sustainability analyst with experience of more than 3 years whose work spans research, strategy implementation, project management, sustainability reporting, sustainable product sourcing, and development across the Luxury and Fast Fashion supply chain. Focussed on ethical standards, practices, and strategies implementation in fashion production and preservation of circularity, fine craftsmanship, environmental, cultural, climate preservation, and social emergence domains across the supply chain for the organisations.

London LASER is hosted by University of the Arts London (Central Saint Martins MA Art and Science) and has been running since February 2014.

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