Hosted on-line by the Cotsen Textile Traces Research Heart, this free roundtable on November 6–7 brings collectively a world panel of students, designers, and cultural practitioners to discover future-oriented approaches to textile manufacturing and consumption. By means of the lens of each conventional practices and cutting-edge applied sciences, conversations will spotlight pathways towards extra accountable style and the preservation of textile heritage.
The Cotsen Textile Traces Research Heart at The George Washington College Museum and The Textile Museum is dwelling to one of many world’s most important textile research collections. Assembled by the late Lloyd Cotsen, it consists of some 4,000 fragments created across the globe relationship from antiquity to the current.
The colloquium is free and open to the general public.
To be taught extra and register, go to museum.gwu.edu/textile-futures.
Thursday, November 6, 10am–1 pm
Panel 1: Previous Strategies, New Purposes
- Supply Materials: Classes in Accountable Vogue
(Katrina Orsini, applications affiliate for educational engagement)
- Kumihimo Braiding: From Conventional to Excessive-Tech
(Makiko Tada, artist and knowledgeable in braiding, Japan)
- Strip Material Reimagined with Upcycled Denim
(Nkwo Onwuka, designer and founding father of NKWO Design, Nigeria)
Panel 2: New Supplies and Applied sciences
- Rejuvenated Fibers from Textile Waste and Renewable Power in Textiles
(Abhishek Bansal, head of sustainability at Arvind Restricted, India)
- E-Textiles
(Stephen Beeby, professor of Digital Techniques & Machine on the College of Southampton, England)
- The Viability of Bio Supplies for Vogue Tasks
(Charlotte McCurdy, designer, researcher, and educator at Stanford College, California)
Friday, November 7, 10am–12pm
Panel 1: Traditions and Transitions
- Embroidery, Craft Heritage and Ladies’s Autonomy
(Karishma Swali, inventive director of Chanakya Worldwide, founder and chairperson of the Chanakya Faculty of Craft, India)
- Acutely aware Velvet: Tiziano Guardini and Bevilacqua Reimagine Custom
(Tiziano Guardini, acutely aware inventive director, designer and co-founder of Guardini Ciuffreda Studio, Italy )
- Timeless: Textile Traditions, New Concepts and Experiments
(Hector Manuel Meneses Lozano, director of the Textile Museum of Oaxaca, Mexico)
