Amanda Montanari, ricercatrice allo IUAV mi ha invitato per un contributo durante la serie di incontri organizzati all’interno del percorso didattico “Refraiming Sustainability. A geography of lo-fi practice“: Il workshop Refraiming Sustainability prevede una struttura portante caratterizzata dalla riedizione della Lo-fi Theory osservata nell’ottica della ricerca di sostenibilità nell’ambito della produzione e del consumo della moda. Lo strumento della mappatura, sia in termini tecnici che filosofici, ci porterà ad individuare sul territorio veneziano quelle pratiche di uso dell’abito e degli oggetti quotidiani che sono connesse all’emergente visione della sostenibilità. Questa visione si servirà di due preziosi interventi differenti. Zoe Romano, del team di Arduino, verrà a parlarci di Brand open source e di digital fabrication; Kate Fletcher (London College of Fashion) ci presenterà il progetto Local Wisdom. La forma che daremo all’intera mappatura sarà frutto di una continua negoziazione tra i partecipanti. con la partecipazione di Zoe Romano e Kate Fletcher UPDATE: Il percorso è culminato con una mostra fotografica
Educational
Open source branding lecture at Parsons
Last month I was in New York invited by Otto von Busch at The School of Design Strategies for a lecture and a workshop about the concept of open source in fashion and how I experienced it through the projects I co-funded starting from 2005 ( Serpica Naro and Openwear). The SDS is “an experimental educational environment configured to advance innovative approaches to design and business education in the evolving context of cities, services, and ecosystems”. Below you can find the slides of the lecture and here some pictures of the workshop! It was a great experience working together with Otto but also Pascale Gatzen and finally meeting with Giana, from Hacking Couture.
Designing Economic Cultures
Designing Economic Cultures is a three year long research project that Brave New Alps have been carrying on since January 2011 investigating the relationship between socio-economic precarity and the production of socially and politically engaged design projects. The main question they are trying to answer is: how can designers, who through their work want to question and challenge the prevalent economic system with its organisational forms and problematic consequences, gain a satisfying degree of social and economic security without having to submit themselves to the commercial pressures of the market? I was one of the persons involved for the interviews and here’s the result. ——— CONVERSATION This conversation was held in Zoe’s kitchen in Milan in February 2012. Bianca Elzenbaumer: Considering all the creative activist groups you have initiated and been part of, we are wondering what path brought you to be so thoroughly engaged with precarity. Could you trace your path for us? Zoe Romano: At the beginning I
Hacking design and fashion with Otto
(segue in italiano) Three years ago, in an interview with We Make Money not Art, Otto Von Busch talked about
What is info-activism? / Cos’è l’info-attivismo?
(EN) “Info-activism is about turning information into action”. In a 50 minutes documentary, activists around the world explain us what’s info-activism about and give us some real examples to reflect upon. Find the screening near you or order your free copy, and maybe help them to produce subtitles in your language! ——- (IT)“Info-activism serve a trasformare l’informazione in azione”. Attivisti da tutto il mondo ci spiegano, in un documentario di 50 minuti, cosa sia l’info-attivismo e ci forniscono qualche esempio reale su cui riflettere. Cerca la proiezione più vicino a te oppure richiedi una copia gratuita, e magari dagli una mano a fare i sottotitoli nella tua lingua!
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