WAY MORE WARM MEMORIES HERE
Monday, November 21, 2011
Inclusive Practices Brunch
a big thank yous to all those that made our Inclusive Practices Brunch- whew, what a loving day !
we enjoyed so many special slideshows and heard so many inspiring words, while sitting on a collage of quilts. The feast made by Athena was truly spectacular (if we ever wondered, now we know what love tastes like)! And the afternoon of workshops had a such a wonderful fluidity, from embroidery with Painted to zine making with Otto to creative cutting with Elisa to spinning with Laura, quilting with Michael- oh, what fun was had!
WAY MORE WARM MEMORIES HERE
WAY MORE WARM MEMORIES HERE
Monday, November 7, 2011
PLDS 4078 Senior Seminar: Crafting Tradition: Textiles in a Changing World
This class will investigate the negotiations made to bring traditional textile objects and techniques from varying cultures to the contemporary market. In each class, we will examine a traditional, indigenous textile object and technique in terms of production, formal qualities, and cultural context. We will also investigate the work of a contemporary organization or company working to preserve, and in some cases, revive, that particular object or technique. Using this case-studyapproach, different strategies for promoting indigenous textile crafts will be examined, including artisan-run cooperatives, micro-lending situations, fair trade businesses, and other sustainable business models. Each strategy will be analyzed in regards to its “success” in promoting prosperity for the artisans, as well as for its impact on the techniques, skills, and/or visual traditions it seeks to preserve. Students will gain a deeper knowledge of world textile history, and simultaneously delve into issues surrounding cultural preservation, global politics, social entrepreneurship, and sustainable design. We will uncover some of the many complexities that arise alongside the shift to consumption of artisan-produced goods in a globalized society.
Sunday, November 6, 2011
Inclusive Fashion Practices
How can fashion spark inspiration for systems of production and consumption that are inclusive, participatory, abundant, plural, and dedicated to mutual growth and learning?
The event ‘Inclusive Fashion Practices’ hosted by the Fashion track of the Integrated Design program in the School of Design Strategies of Parsons will offer a vivid context to a new generation of artist and designers proposing new models of practice for fashion and our everyday lives moving beyond established notions of fashion that promote exclusivity and scarcity, appropriated by capitalism and staged by the spectacle. It will embrace the inclusive, dynamic and all evasive reality of fashion. Fashion is an expression of our vitality, a celebration of our creativity, our vulnerability and our dedication to share ourselves and be touched by others.
Inclusive Fashion Practices will bring together an exceptional group of practitioners that share an integrated and holistic approach to designing, living and making, and whose premises are joy, beauty, collaboration, play, sharing and open source. The practitioners invited come from different fields of practice, economy, food, community practices, fashion, craft and art.
The event aims to spark discussion and insight about our current models of consumption, production and creation, imagining new models for being in this world, supporting values like love, abundance, respect, sharing and beauty.
participating practitioners:
Painted (Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts)
The event ‘Inclusive Fashion Practices’ hosted by the Fashion track of the Integrated Design program in the School of Design Strategies of Parsons will offer a vivid context to a new generation of artist and designers proposing new models of practice for fashion and our everyday lives moving beyond established notions of fashion that promote exclusivity and scarcity, appropriated by capitalism and staged by the spectacle. It will embrace the inclusive, dynamic and all evasive reality of fashion. Fashion is an expression of our vitality, a celebration of our creativity, our vulnerability and our dedication to share ourselves and be touched by others.
Inclusive Fashion Practices will bring together an exceptional group of practitioners that share an integrated and holistic approach to designing, living and making, and whose premises are joy, beauty, collaboration, play, sharing and open source. The practitioners invited come from different fields of practice, economy, food, community practices, fashion, craft and art.
The event aims to spark discussion and insight about our current models of consumption, production and creation, imagining new models for being in this world, supporting values like love, abundance, respect, sharing and beauty.
participating practitioners:
Painted (Saskia van Drimmelen and Margreet Sweerts)
Michael DiPietro
Otto von Busch
Athena Kokoronis
Caroline Woolard
Caroline Woolard
Huong Ngo
Elisa van Joolen
Laura Sansone
Frau Fiber
Gabi Asfour
Join us on November 13th, from 11-6, in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnold Hall, 55 W 13th street, 2nd floor, for an amazing brunch, inspiring talks, immersive workshops and an open exchange of ideas and iterations.
Hosted by the students and the faculty of the Fashion Area of Study in the Integrated Design program of Parsons.
This event has been generously funded by the School of Design Strategies, Parsons and the Mondriaan Foundation, The Netherlands
Gabi Asfour
Join us on November 13th, from 11-6, in the Theresa Lang Community and Student Center, Arnold Hall, 55 W 13th street, 2nd floor, for an amazing brunch, inspiring talks, immersive workshops and an open exchange of ideas and iterations.
Hosted by the students and the faculty of the Fashion Area of Study in the Integrated Design program of Parsons.
This event has been generously funded by the School of Design Strategies, Parsons and the Mondriaan Foundation, The Netherlands
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