Day 2 | Circular Cultures: Design, Fashion, Crafts

Parallel Video Art Exhibition “Earth Chronicles”

In the context of the conference we are presenting the exhibition Earth Chronicles, a series of videos from Polyeco Contemporary Art Initiative’s (PCAI) collection, curated by Kika Kyriakakou, Artistic Director, PCAI Residency.

Workshop | Materials Portrait

Seetal Solanki, Founder and Director of Ma-tt-er

Unlocking the potential materials can have by rediscovering them through their characteristics and behaviours. This workshop will provide the opportunity to discover yourselves and your practice through a materials lens. You will be tasked with developing a vocabulary, an assemblage and a communication toolkit in order to create your very own materials portrait demonstrating the various ways in which materials can be implemented across multiple fields.

Audience
All are welcome

Citizen Behaviour Change: Love Not Landfill

Hannah Carter, Communications and Campaigns Officer at London Waste & Recycling Board

The workshop will take participants through a simplified process to build a citizen behaviour change campaign that would address an issue relating to sustainable fashion in their city or town. Participants will be taking a deep dive into audience behaviour, exercising empathy and analysis. They will learn how to distil down a campaign to clear and simple messages that will result in behaviour change, explore communication channels, exercise creative thinking in terms of content and design of a campaign, and consider budgets, as well as measurement and analysis to prove success.

Audience
Students, educators, researchers, industry, consumers with an interest in sustainable fashion

Re-making meaning in virtuous-circular-cultures

Nick Gant, Designer, Research mentor at the University of Brighton

Waste is a result of what we think and feel as well as what we do. An effective circular economy needs to appeal to hearts as well as heads. What use are circular technologies, products, materials and systems if they have no meaning in culture? In this workshop, participants will explore processes of meaning-making through an interactive exhibition of extraordinary shoes made from a diverse and provocative range of ‘waste’ materials. Participants will: re-write cultural narratives and stories through waste materials; and re-define effective strategies and frameworks for making meaningful cultural connections.

Audience
People from any place and profession. The workshop will appeal to anyone who creates – whether that be buildings, products, systems or places.