Textile Waste Driven Design Workshop 2025 - This sixteen-day interdisciplinary seminar is for artists, designers, and educators interested in participating in critical discourse and hands-on workshops on the subject of unsustainable global production and waste disposal practices. The course, among other things, will focus on the effect of Western fast-fashion waste streams on Ghana’s people and environment. Our goal is that participants are inspired in their personal practice to envision a different future, one in which sustainability is a guiding value in the production and proliferation of goods. To that end, we welcome an interdisciplinary community of artists, thinkers, and doers.
Participants will be immersed in local traditions, with workshops exploring African weaving, batik, sewing (incorporating waste fabrics), and more. Studios, include: fashion studios, glass studio, batik studio, silkscreen studio, woodwork studio, metal work studio, and tools at the Institute for furniture design, textile work, recycled glass, and education material production.
Renée C. Neblett, Director of Kokrobitey Institute, will facilitate an ongoing multi-disciplinary seminar, exploring how our sustainability values impact our relationship to social, political, and economic development. These forums will include guests from across the arts, business, and waste management sectors. All participants will participate in individual and group presentations to share their material explorations, insights, discoveries, and reflections.
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