As part of the Nordic fashion Biennale, there is a conference on : Fashion Concious: A conference on fashion, design and sustainability, today from 9.30 to 12.30 in the Nordic House (Alvar Alto-house). Speakers are four very clever women: Ann Thorpe, professor and author, Kristin Vala Ragnarsdottir, professor, Karin Stenmar (DemCollective) and Malin Eriksson (Clean Clothes). See more info below and on the nfb web
Turning Conscience into Activism by Ann Thorpe
Ann Thorpe has spent the last several years living in the United Kingdom, where she taught product design and sustainable design at the University College of the Creative Arts and currently teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture (University College London). Prior to this, she worked in the United States with architects and designers in the Pacific Northwest to increase activities in sustainable building and product stewardship. During this time she served as co-chair of the US Green Building Council’s Cascadia Chapter and participated in collaborative eco-redesign projects with Northwest companies such as Microsoft and REI. She has lectured and published widely on the topic of sustainable design.
Transparency as a keyfactor for growth- by Karin Stenmar
It is possible to combine good design with ecology, ethics, quality and profit making!
To have control over the production steps and a close collaboration with suppliers, the companies can put words into action when it comes to codes of conduct. The benefits will come natural; added value to your brand by the unique sellingpoint and the possibility to survive on a global market.
In my opinion the fashion companies have to make huge changes due to climate change – It will soon be more expensive to use natural resources. And where will the fashion industry find the cotton when the main part of the soil is unworkable?
Design is settling, organic cotton essential and transparency the overall solution.
Hopefully we all join the challenge to work in the right direction; our decision makers, the designers, the market-leaders and the consumers. Profit in a wider perspective is something that benefits all. Shareholders and co-workers, global resources and consumers.
Karin Stenmar – One of the two founders of Dem Collective.
Karin has a background in communication and marketing in many diverse areas. From the music industry to her engagement in sustainable business; corporate enviromental and social responsibility issues. Since 2004 Karin and Annika Axelsson has ensured that Sweden receives a steady supply of fair produced and organic clothes from Dem Collective?s own factories in Sri Lanka.
Clean Clothes – An ethical perspective on fashion by Malin Eriksson
Malin Eriksson is coordinating Rena Kläder, the Swedish part of the Clean Clothes Campaign (CCC). The CCC is an international campaign, focused on improving working conditions in the global garment and sportswear industries, and empowers the workers in it. Rena Kläder works primary to put pressure on Swedish garment and shoe retailers through creating public opinion and inform consumers. Malin has studied political science, gender and fair trade before she started working for Rena Kläder.
www.renaklader.org
Kristín Vala Ragnarsdóttir is the newly appointed Dean of the School of Engineering and Natural Sciences at the University of Iceland. She has worked and studied in the US, Britain and France for 30 years. Over the past 10 years she has as the Professor of Environmental Sustainability at the University of Bristol in Great Britain directed her work in teaching, research and community interaction towards sustainability.
Please sign up for the conference at: ilmur@nordice.is
Tengt efni:
- Núna: Ráðstefna um tísku og sjálfbærni Í dag á milli klukkan 9.30 og 12.30 er í...
- Today: Lecture on design as activism. Anne Thorpe, author of Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability, is in town Today at lunch-time, from 12-13, in the Open artUniversity, at...
- Today at four : Outlining Sustainability in Iceland Students from the Sustainable Futures course at the University of...
- Today at lunch-time in the Nordic House: Faroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland in a Nordic Fashion biennale Today, at the Nordic House in Reykjavik, there is a...
- Self-sustainability Series of work-shops on alternative ways to utilize natural and...