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SLOW TEXTILES – A TWO DAY CONFERENCE
Saturday 8 May and Sunday 9 May
Speakers: Keynote Speaker Rebecca Earley, Dr Emma Neuberg, Clara Vuletich, Philippa Brock who are all at the forefront of textile recycling and new technologies.
Chairperson: Helen Carnac.
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Conference Day 1
Saturday 8 May
10 am – 6 pm
Venue: Stroud College in Gloucestershire, Stratford Park Road, Stroud GL5 4AH
Workshops Day 2
Sunday 9 May
10 am – 5 pm
This two day conference will tackle the topical and challenging area of new textile technology and look at future textiles with a conscience. How ‘Slow Design’ focuses on ideas of well-being.
Three of the speakers, are associated with the slow design network, and they will consider the impact and drive behind this dynamic forward looking initiative.
Slow design outcomes encourage a reduction in economic, industrial and urban metabolisms, and hence consumption, by: serving basic human needs; creating moments to savour and enjoy the (human) senses; designing for space to think, react, dream, and muse; designing for people first and commercialisation second; balancing the local with the global and the social with the environmental; demystifying and democratising design by re-awakening individual’s own design potential; and catalysing social transformation towards a less materialistic way of living.
Day 1 will be presentation and discussion and Day 2 will be workshops with Emma Neuberg and Clara Vuletich
Conference Day 1
Speakers
Rebecca Earley: Keynote speaker
Top 100: Up Close and Personal, 1999 - 2009
Becky Earley is a London based designer and Reader at Chelsea College of Art & Design, University of the Arts, London. She currently produces hand and digitally printed textiles for her own label, undertakes public art projects and commissions, and is an educator, facilitator and curator.
Dr Emma Neuberg
"Why Slow? Why Now?"
Emma Neuberg is founder of www.slowtextiles.org.
She is an artist, theorist, lecturer and author. She works alongside the TED team and Textiles Theory staff at Chelsea College of Art.
She gained her doctorate in Constructed Textiles at the Royal College of Art in 2000.
Her doctoral thesis is a pioneering, cross-disciplinary analysis of the cultural and aesthetic meanings of thermoplastic fabrics in fashion, product and architecture.
Textiles is the connecting link through all her work.
"Why Slow? Why Now?" an insight into the setting up of The Slow Textiles Group, a new, international platform for design, community, dialogue, reflection and the "dissemination of textile methodologies that are sustaining as well as sustainable.
Emma Neuberg describes how she arrived at setting up slowtextiles.org in the midst of the financial collapse of 2008, how she envisages its international significance and development and what the group's role over the next half century may be in terms of zero waste, invigorating localised textile practice, enabling sustainable textile strategies and nurturing social, mental and cultural capital.
Clara Vuletich
‘Upcycling and Digital Craft’
Clara Vuletich is a printed textile designer and researcher in sustainable textile design at the Textiles Enviroment Design (TED) Project, Chelsea College of Art & Design, exploring ideas of material reuse, digital craft techniques and Slow design.
Philippa Brock
‘SMART Textiles’
Philippa is known for her 3D woven jacquard effects – she explores the potential to create innovative woven textiles which explore colour, yarn, structure and surface effects in the weaving, which then only require minimal finishing when they come off the loom.
Philippa Brock is an International Woven Textile Designer and Researcher, who also runs the Woven Textile Department at Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design, University of The Arts London.
Her most recent projects ‘Nobel Textiles’ and work for the ‘Warp Factor 09’ Exhibition in Japan and China involved working with Gainsborough Silk Weaving Company in Sudbury Suffolk.
The day will be chaired by HELEN CARNAC
Helen Carnac is a maker, curator and academic who lives and works in London. Drawing, mark- making, the explicit connections between material, process and maker and an emphasis on deliberation and reflection are all central to her practice as a maker and thinker. She has co-curated the national touring exhibition ‘Taking Time: Craft and the Slow Revolution’
Doors will open at 9 am and registration will be from 9.15 am.
Chrome Yellow Books will have a bookstall.
Tickets for day one includes refreshments on arrival, a delicious homemade lunch and a closing drink - a networking opportunity.
£50.00 Student (student concessions £25.00)
A booking form will be on the web soon. Until then call the festival office on 01453 808076 / 01453 755421 for details.
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Helen Carnac
Rebecca Earley
Emma Neuberg
Clara Vuletich
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Conference Day 2
Workshops
‘EXTENDED LIFE TEXTILE TECHNIQUES INSPIRED BY JAPANESE EMBROIDERY TRADITIONS’
TUTOR: EMMA NEUBERG
Sunday 9 May
10.00 am – 6 pm
Venue: Gallery 2,
Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud GL5 4AF
Ticket: £35
SOLD OUT
A stimulating, practical workshop that introduces three traditional Japanese embroidery techniques interpreted in a way that helps you to upcycle and extend the life of your old clothes and textiles.
Sashiko Quilting and Geometric Satin Stitch Badge-making will build up to the final technique, Japanese Latticework.
Emma Neuberg, who runs the Slow Textiles workshops in London (www.slowtextiles.blogspot.com), uses a teaching structure that includes practical, symbolic, sustainable and immaterial content.
She uses this as it makes for deeper learning and greater likelihood of future application and development.
As well as having fun, the group may reflect upon and gain insights collectively into slow processes, sustainability, the combining of different schools and traditions, the processes of thinking and reflection during practice, ideas around well-being, material and immaterial value and textile ‘biographies’.
Materials will be supplied on the day, however, if possible please bring your own light-coloured fabrics, pencil, embroidery thread, pins, needle and scissors.
Ticket for each one day workshop £35.
www.slowtextiles.org
www.museuminthepark.org.uk
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Conference Day 2
‘BRICOLAGE’
TUTORS: CLARA VULETICH and KATHERINE MAY
Sunday 9 May
10 am– 4 pm
Venue: Stroud International Textile Studio, Five Valley Foyer, Gloucester Street, Stroud GL5 1QG
Ticket: £35
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Individually, Katherine May creates new upcycled quilted textiles using pre-loved fabrics while Clara Vuletich hand prints wallpaper and textiles using both new and traditional print techniques. Collectively, Clara and Kate are part of Bricolage, a textile collective made up of five designer/makers, all graduates from Chelsea College of Art & Design.
Creating bespoke textiles for interiors, they share an aesthetic which favours a bold use of colour, an appreciation for traditional craft skills and the use of sustainable materials and processes. Bricolage is passionate about passing on craft skills and sharing personal ‘textile stories’
This workshop will be an introduction to creative upcycling using traditional patchwork and quilting techniques to create modern designs from pre-loved fabrics. Participants will create a small sample quilt piece or will be encouraged to begin a larger piece to be finished in their own time. Pre-loved fabrics will be provided but you are also encouraged to bring your own favourite textile pieces to use, and participants will be encouraged to join in a discussion about the stories and memories associated with these pieces.
Sewing threads and needles will be provided.
Ticket for each one day workshop £35.00
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