Limited capacity, ticket required, available here: http://vsmm.org/registration/
Dublin workshops are running in two separate sessions so it is only possible to do 1 or 3 and 4, 5, or 6.
Lead instructor - Camille Baker & Rachel Lashebikan
WEAR Sustain is part of the Horizon 2020 research and innovation initiative that seeks to engage art, design and creative industries to work more closely with technology and engineering industries, to shift the design and development of the wearables and e-textiles towards more sustainable and ethical approaches and solutions.
The project initiator, Camille Baker, will briefly present the project aims and objectives and the progress of recently selected project teams in their development of their ethical and sustainable projects/products based on the WEAR Call Themes. These themes include: environment, use and reuse vs. waste and planned obsolesce, energy and batteries, body/ physiology/somatics, emotional and mental health, social/ cultural/ economic (addressing data collection, surveillance, privacy, algorithmic focussed marketing, human rights and labour practices. Baker will also go over the Call 2 information for the next round of funding and outline the
Sustainability Toolkit research that started in July 2017.
The workshop will take the bulk of the time and will involve breaking participants up into thematic groups, each focussing on one of our open call themes, spending time brainstorming the problems and solutions to these issues. Open call themes can be found here:
http://wearsustain.eu/open-calls/open-call-themes/The smaller groups will debrief with a larger group into a discussion, where everyone will come to together to share their group summary of solutions. The workshop outcomes and discussion will be recorded to feed into our Sustainability Toolkit. The goal of this workshop is not only to spread the word on the project but also to garner valuable insights into the direction that experts, stakeholders, conference participants, etc. think the project should be going in for the duration of it and after the end of the project.
