Re-THINK Fashion Garden

Re-FREAM Ausstellung im Rahmen des Ars Electronica Festival 2021

Das Forschungsprojekt Re-FREAM eruiert die Interaktion zwischen den Bereichen Mode, Design, Wissenschaft, Handwerk und Technologie und bietet einen Raum für kollaboratives Forschen und Schaffen. Über einen Zeitraum von neun Monaten befanden sich hybride Teams bestehend aus Künstler*innen, Wissenschaftler*innen und Technologische*innen auf einer gemeinsamen Forschungs- und Co-Creation-Reise, um gemeinsam an nachhaltigen Lösungen für die Mode der Zukunft zu arbeiten. Dabei kamen etliche leistungsstarke Technologien aus einigen der modernsten Labors der Welt zum Einsatz.

Der Fokus der Forschung liegt auf der Zukunft der urbanen Herstellung von Mode durch den Einsatz von additiver Fertigung (3D-Druck), Elektronik und Textil- und öko-innovativer Veredelung zusammen mit sozialen und ökologischen Werten, um eine neue Wertschöpfungskette für die Modeindustrie zu schaffen.

Der Re-THINK Fashion Garden im Rahmen des Ars Electronica Festivals 2021 zeigt von 8.-12. September die Ergebnisse von sechs Re-FREAM-Projekten und veranschaulicht das Potenzial der Verbindung von Kunst mit Technologie, Handwerk und Wissenschaft. Die ausgestellten Projekte offenbaren eine spekulative Perspektive auf die Mode der Zukunft und eröffnen neue Spielräume für Design, nachhaltige Produktion und eine neue Wertschöpfungskette.

Meet The Artists

Triff die Artists und Designer*innen des Re-Think Fashion Gardens! Am Freitag, den 10. September hast du die Möglichkeit, die Menschen hinter den Projekten zu treffen, ihnen Fragen zu stellen und dich mit Ihnen über das Thema „New Value Chain for Fashion“ auszutauschen.

• Freitag, 10. September 2021
• 10.00 – 12.00 Uhr
• Re-FREAM Garden, JKU Linz, Bibliothek und Learning Center, 2. Stock

Schau vorbei!

Panel: Made in Your City

Im Panel „Made in Your City“, das im Rahmen des Ars Electronica Festivals am 9. September 2021 um 17:45 Uhr online stattfindet, diskutieren internationale Künstler*innen, Designer*innen und Expert*innen ihre Perspektiven auf zukünftige Optionen der Bekleidungsproduktion. Sie teilen ihre Erfahrungen mit inklusiven Entwicklungsprozessen, neuen nachhaltigen Materialien und begegneten Chancen urbaner Produktion.

Näheres dazu findest du hier.

Über die Künstler / About the artists

Filippo Nassetti & Vincenzo Reale

Filippo Nassetti is an architect and generative designer. His design agenda was initiated in 2012 by co-founding MHOX, a EU-funded research practice and start-up focused on the design of radical artefacts and wearable products through computational techniques and 3d printing. In 2015 Filippo joined Zaha Hadid Architects, initially as part of the Computation and Design team, then of Zaha Hadid Design. His focus there is on small scale research projects, from product design to experimental sculptures and installations. Since 2016 he teaches at UCL The Bartlett School of Architecture, as part of the B-Pro Master’s Degree program, Urban Morphogenesis Lab. Filippo’s independent work has been published and exhibited internationally. He lectured at The Royal College of Arts (London), China Central Academy of Fine Arts (Beijing), Florida International University (Miami) among others and exhibited at Centre Pompidou (Paris), Design Museum (London), Bozar Centre (Bruxelles).

Vincenzo Reale is a chartered structural engineer (ICE) and architect (ARB). He holds a master’s degree with distinction in Structural Engineering and Architecture from the University of Bologna and a Master of Science from the Architectural Association in London. Concurrently with his professional work he has also held several academic positions, teaching at the Architectural Association, Imperial College, Bartlett School of Architecture and Arup University. His works and collaborations have been exhibited worldwide, notably at the Venice Biennale of Architecture, Royal Academy of Arts and Design Museum in London.

Sophia Guggenberger & Eugenia Morpurgo

Sophia Guggenberger is a designer/maker continuously working on developing alternative strategies for the production of footwear. She is researching not only the technical aspects of these specific processes but also the wider implications of employing different production methods; mixing craft, industrial strategies as well as digital fabrication. Next to a qualification in Fashion Design and Technology, she holds a MA in Design from the University of the Arts Berlin and a BA in Footwear Design and Development from London College of Fashion. 

Eugenia Morpurgo has been a lecturer at the Free University of Bozen in Bolzano, Italy, ENSAD in Paris and NABA in Milan. She holds a MA in Social Design at the Design Academy Eindhoven and a BA in Industrial Design at IUAV Istituto Universitario Architettura Venezia. Parallel to her studies, she took part in the research program on craft and local materials Atelier Rwanda, based in Kigali, Rwanda. She is an independent Italian designer researching the impact that production processes have on society, with a focus on investigating and prototyping alternative scenarios and products. She works through self initiated projects and commissioned work from cultural institutions, Universities and Fablabs.

From 2015 to 2018 Eugenia and Sophia collaborated on the research project AnOtherShoe – A new model for shoe production based on shared knowledge and local manufacturing, through small scale and on demand digital fabrication.

Loreto Binvignat

Loreto is an international artist, designer and author. She has worked in the academic field, working for 10 years at IED Barcelona, within the fashion department affiliated to Westminster University London. She also worked for five years as a professor in design and fashion at the London College for design and fashion Hanoi. Her background is in fashion design and art. For the last 10 years she has been developing her multidisciplinary ethical and sustainable practice. This practice intersects in her brand: anima. by loreto.

Understanding the textile dye industries huge pollution problem she began to experiment with sustainable dyes. This research led her to create bonds, collaborate with and learn from ethnic communities around the globe, in particular the Hmong community in the mountains of Sapa Vietnam. After all these years of working with traditional dyeing techniques it was only natural to go a step further and take the leap into innovative, sustainable dyes.

Alex Bello

Alex Bello’s work seeks to explore the intersection of nature, science, craftsmanship and health through bespoke tailoring. Having worked under various tailors and pattern cutters in London, New York and Madrid, he continuously aims to preserve traditional hand crafted techniques while incorporating innovative processes to create garments with a story and a soul.

With a particular interest in natural dyeing practices, one of his main investigations consists in integrating nature into the garments he makes and finding sustainable solutions for today’s fashion system. How can we re-think current production processes to create a link between the craftsman and the wearer, all while implementing innovative and sustainable visions for the future?

Tim Van der Loo & Sandra Nielsen

Tim van der Loo is a material and product designer – based in Berlin, born in the Netherlands – using post-consumer resources to develop new surfaces and structures. Even though his main concern is sustainability, he cares about bringing a contemporary aesthetic to recycled materials. His works are reflections of a playful approach to the function and matter of objects for everyday use. The methodology used in his practice is to work with waste as a resource.

Sandra Nielsen is a Techno-Anthropologist with a pertinent focus on making circular economy a reality. She has partnered up with Tim van der Loo to develop people- and environment centered solutions on post- and pre-consumer textile waste. It is fundamental for her to approach design innovation as creating new long term, sustainable solutions. This entails prioritising the use and end-of-life of the product from the very outset. Waste should be eliminated where and to every extent it is possible, while embracing people within the different steps of the system.

Tim van der Loo and Sandra Nielsen take two approaches; working with craft, enabling independency with DIY tools, machines and techniques and working with the industry, meaning to collaborate, translate and to develop user items for bigger scale. Working within industry is set out not to design something new but to redesign the material that was wasted before and keep it out of being wasted.