International symposium on sustainable fashion consumption
The Institute of Sustainable Corporate Management of Ulm University organised a one-day interdisciplinary symposium aiming to bridge the gap between the niche of sustainable fashion and everyday fashion consumption. In … Continue reading
I make therefore I am
Sustainable fashion researchers, designers and writers have dealt at length with making and using clothes in more sustainable ways[i], and have documented how making is a joyful, convivial activity[ii]. There … Continue reading
Disrupting Fashion through Making Together
We are still metabolising all the insights from the seminar we ran at BITZ, Unibz FabLab, in December 2017, as the closing event of the ‘Make Yourself…’ makespace and pop-up … Continue reading
Seminar – Disruptive Fashion Practices
A Seminar: Disrupting Fashion Modes: Future Goals, Strategies and Practice A seminar focusing on disruptive modes of creating clothing that contest the wasteful, socially unjust practices of the mainstream fashion industry. … Continue reading
Make Yourself… an outfit together
Today we had the third day of our Make Yourself… event at BITZ, unibz fablab. The overall theme was dresses, shirts and ponchos, with people taking inspiration from the materials … Continue reading
Make Yourself… warm!
The second day of our makerspace at BITZ, unibz fablab, started with the theme of making garments and accessories to keep warm – scarves, mittens and hats – using old … Continue reading
Make Yourself… a bag and a smile
The first day of the Christmas fashion makerspace and pop-up shop attracted a good mix of locals and migrants gathered around the sewing machines. I introduced a triangular bag template … Continue reading
‘Weaving the Threads’ is exhibited in the USA
It is a thrill for me to see that my social innovation research project “Weaving the Threads” conducted with textile artisans in Cape Town is currently part of the show … Continue reading
1st Workshop – Make Yourself …
Co-designing the Bolzano Makerspace and Pop-up Shop With the first of four events we started the new project: Make yourself.. by MODE UNCUT. On Monday the 28th of November, … Continue reading
Make Yourself…
Mode Uncut is waking up after a period of hibernation and reactivating projects focusing on challenging the way we make our clothes, who we make them with, why we make … Continue reading
Activating Disruptive Fashion Modes and Practices 