The success of the Marks & Spencer and Oxfam clothes exchange initiative, which has encouraged the donation of over 10 million items, led to the launch of Shwop Lab in East London’s Old Truman Brewery. TED’s PhD student Jen Ballie collaborated with the Lab and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion to organise a co-creation workshop called Unpick (more…)
In July 2012, Amy Congdon was awarded a Central Saint Martins bursary to start a part-time PhD with the TFRC group. After graduating from MA Textile Futures in 2011, Amy pursued her research into tissue engineering for her project, the Biological Atelier at SymbioticA in Perth, University of Western Australia. The opportunity to work in the (more…)
Clara Vuletich is a member of design collective Bricolage and co-curated and exhibited her work in the Bricolage + friends exhibition at the Centre Commercial in Paris in June 2012. The Bricolage project was formed by five female textile designers who are exploring the spaces between design, craft, research, product-making and socially (more…)