14th October 2014, Colchane community centre, Chile. Audience of around fifty Aymara weavers drawn from the local area. We shared our garment stories and ideas, rooted in their experience, of how the West could engage with fashion and sustainability differently.
In the barn-conference space at the recent MEND*RS symposium nestled in the age-old Lake District hills and with families of swallows nesting overhead, I was struck by how…
The Local Wisdom project will be visiting Kolding in Denmark on Thursday 6th September in order to gather tales of how people use their clothes. We will be in the library…
This October I spent a remarkable couple of weeks in Chile exploring its capital, Santiago, and the far North East of the country. High in the North I…
The Craft of Use event that took place at London College of Fashion in March has been summarised in image, word and video and is available online. It…