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  1. 6 February 2012, 9:22 am

    (Italiano) Io Artigianato / Tu Industria: un incontro in Olanda per parlare del futuro della manifattura

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    Me Craft/You Industry Symposium Nonostante nella società dell'informazione il lavoro manuale si sia guadagnato una brutta reputazione per la sua mancanza di status e per i bassi guadagni, il contributo degli artigiani e delle artigiane nell'economia olandese è considerevole: si contano infatti 900mila posti di lavoro su un totale di 16 milioni di popolazione. E' snocciolando questi numeri che Henk Oosterling inizia il suo intervento. Filosofo, professore e fondatore di Skill City, il progetto che sta rivitalizzando e rinnovando il tessuto urbano di Rotterdam a partire proprio dal connettere le abilità manuali a traiettorie di fo ...
  2. 3 February 2012, 1:19 pm

    Who’s gonna wear all those garments?

    Posted by Zoe Romano

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  3. 24 January 2012, 9:01 am

    Do you know the hidden price of your clothes?

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    FInally, 2012 should be the year to create the practical framework for a new type of fashion system... ...
  4. 20 January 2012, 3:56 pm

    (Re)Searching for a sustainable fashion system – Interview

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    Kay Politowicz Thanx to the collaboration with Jen Ballie, who kindly accepted our invitation last year to our Openwear conference, I had the chance to get in touch with Kay Politowicz, professor of Textile Design, co-founder and Project Director for the Textiles Environment Design (TED) research group at Chelsea. For many years she was Director of Undergraduate Textile Design Course at Chelsea – and promoted a high-level of achievement of students working with specialist material processes in textiles: knit, weave, print, stitch – increasingly using digital processes and a wider variety of workshops – such as ceramics, wood, metal. In that role she became increasingly aware of the need to develop an ...
  5. 27 December 2011, 10:55 am

    100% made in Italy, a new project for next year

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    The weekend before Christmas I was invited to contribute to an event taking place in Molise, in the city of Isernia. Giorgio Gagliardi, the president of Ampi, the association of small enterprises of the region, organized the kick-off meeting of an interesting project based on the networking of enterprises and collaboration. The main aim of [...] ...
  6. 28 November 2011, 12:31 pm

    The collaborative revolution

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    collaborative consumption If 20th century was defined by hyper consumption and programmed obsolescence as clearly described in this documentary: ...
  7. 18 November 2011, 2:54 pm

    Jam Session with Fold Slippers

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    Phycolab Jam Session with Openwear Last weekend Openwear participated in collaboration with Vectorealism to the Physical Computing event organized by PhyCoLab of the "Politecnico di Milano" University and hosted by StreetStudio. ...
  8. 31 October 2011, 10:23 am

    Help kickstarting The Sussiya Book of Embroidered Local Knowledge

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    Two years ago Aviv Kruglansky spent a week with us, participating to the workshop for the creation of the first Openwear Collaborative Collection. We had a nice time and we are still in touch updating each other with the development of our activities. He wrote me some days ago to talk me about a new thing he's working on, together with Vahida Ramujkic. They are kickstarting a project in Palestine (watch the video above!). ...
  9. 23 October 2011, 8:29 am

    Two workshops at Innovation Festival in Milan

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    (Italiano) Folded slippers Mentre siamo alle prese con l'organizzazione della seconda edizione di Wefab (la data è ancora da definire) abbiamo accettato l'invito del Phyco Lab a partecipare con due workshop alla loro due giorni di Physical Computing all'interno dell'Innovation Festival che si terrà il weekend del 12 e 13 novembre 2011. ...
  10. 7 October 2011, 9:08 am

    Ready for wearables? A workshop in december

    Posted by Zoe Romano

    wearables course Some weeks ago I did a post about Riccardo Marchesi and his experimentations on wearable textiles and electronics. Now it's time to put our hands on with a modular three-day course on a theoretical and applied introduction to smart textiles. ...