Weaving a Sustainable Future: Textile Art and Crafts for Planetary Health
Datum: 4 oktober 2024
Tid: 08:30-11:00
How can textile art and crafts contribute to restoring our planet's health? What role do biodesign and innovative textile practices play in promoting sustainability? Welcome to a seminar about these critical questions, exploring the intersection of textile art, craft, and environmental science.
Through the lens of invited experts in the field, we will investigate how traditional and contemporary textile methods can drive ecological restoration. Our invited speakers will explore how fibers and fabrics can be harnessed to create a sustainable future and promote ecological balance, an engagement with pioneering approaches that blend art, science, and sustainability to address pressing environmental challenges.
The seminar will include Carole Collet, Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures, Central Saint Martins UAL, and artists Malin Bobeck Tadaa and Leif Holmstrand. More speakers will be announced shortly.
The seminar will be in English and is free of charge, but registration is mandatory. Coffee and sandwiches will be provided.
The seminar is organised by the Artists' Association of Sweden (Konstnärernas Riksorganisation) and the Public Art Agency Sweden (Statens konstråd) as part of Stockholm Craft Week.
Date: Friday 4 October 2024. 8.30-11.00
Venue: Statens Konstråd, Svensksundsvägen 11A, Stockholm
The seminar will be recorded and made available with Swedish subtitles.
Image from Automating Violacein. Charlotte Werth for maison 0. Photography Paul Cochrane 2023.
Speakers
Rewilding Textiles: Design for Planetary Health
Professor Carole Collet, Central Saint Martins UAL
The lecture will discuss how creative-driven inquiries in textile making can lead to restoring our planetary health. Positioning the role of craft and design as a catalyst for change, I will present a range of design projects concerned with nurturing our biodiversity, climate and cultural know-how.
Bio:
Carole Collet is Professor in Design for Sustainable Futures at Central Saint Martins UAL in London where she holds two catalyst roles. She is Director of Maison/0, a platform for regenerative luxury co-developed with the LVMH group to leverage creativity at the service of ecosystem regeneration. She is also founder and co-director of the Living Systems Lab, a research group dedicated to the exploration of living systems thinking as an inquiry into new ecological knowledge for the creative sector.
She is recognised for her leardership in ecological design centered on living systems thinking. She operates across fundamental and applied research, curation and education. She has pioneered the integration of ecological values in the design curriculum over twenty years by founding radical new courses such as MA Textile Futures (2001), MA Biodesign (2019), and MA Regenerative Design (2022). Her own design work has been featured in international exhibitions such as the ICA, the V&A and the Pompidou Centre. She regularly contributes to international conferences and publications on the subjects of living systems design, biodesign, and regenerative futures.
She was awarded a Design For Planet Fellowship at the Design Council UK in 2022.
https://www.arts.ac.uk/research/ual-staff-researchers/carole-collet
Textile as Ritual
Malin Bobeck Tadaa
In her talk, Malin will explore her personal relationship with the materials she works with and discuss how she uses ritual to bring people closer to her art. Throughout early human history, our relationship with textiles was deeply ritualistic, both in their creation and their use. Perhaps our most pressing sustainability challenge lies not in the textiles themselves, but in our relationship with them.
Bio:
Malin Bobeck Tadaa is a Stockholm-based artist renowned for her interactive installations that seamlessly integrate light and electronics into woven structures. She employs ritual as a tool to draw her audience into a deeper connection with her artworks. Her work has been showcased in prestigious venues such as Sweden's National Museum of Art and Gothenburg Art Museum, as well as internationally, including at Art Miami, Zona Maco, and the Institute Suédois in Paris.
Garbage Nymph Entanglement
Leif Holmstrand
I will talk about myself and what I do, about garbage and waste as readable cultural products, about informal writing of history, and what it means to contain, take care of, store, keep, and save. I will talk about how my performance practice relates to the production of art objects. I will show a lot of images and push a queer agenda.
Bio:
Leif Holmstrand (1972) is a writer, artist, musician, and member of The Royal Academy of Fine Arts. They work in a gender-dissolving, anti-straight tradition with slightly psychedelic ideas of the queer body and its perceptions. Holmstrand has cooperated with the Japanese artist collective OLTA on several occasions, the last time in April 2024, in a performance piece at Umewaka-Noh in Higashinakano, Tokyo. In 2024, the solo exhibition: "The Life of Termites: The End was shown at Malmö Konsthall, and in 2024, the book “Community” was published.
About registration and cancellation
We offer breakfast with sandwiches, tea or coffee between 08.30 and 09.00. Please arrive on time!
It is free to participate but registration is mandatory and if you cancel later than 5 days before the event or do not show up, a no-show fee of SEK 250 will be charged.
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