Exploitation, environmental destruction and overproduction characterize the fashion industry today. How can I use my skills and knowledge as a fashion and textile designer to stimulate effective, long-term social and structural change?
To deal with the challenge of sustainably addressing textile issues at the museum, the research project VESTIMENTARY LOVE is exploring new art education strategies to access the historical, social, economic, or environmental messages and implications inscribed into textile artefacts.
In a two-day workshop at the St. Gallen Textile Museum in December 2021, a group of adolescent students was invited to participate in an action research experiment that tested a mix of cognitive and hands-on, design-based teaching formats with the goal of unlocking the hidden transformative potential of the museum's historical lace collection.
Watch the short film documentary on the process here:
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CREDITS
DoP / Nora Longatti
Editor / Sophie Blöchlinger
Score / Woros
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MANY THANKS TO
TEMA – House of Textile Matters
Textilmuseum St. Gallen / Simona Bischof
Swiss Textile Collection / Rosmarie Amacher
Fachschule Viventa Oerlikon / Kristina Kekic & Klasse B3
Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK