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Wednesday, 23 May 2012

Fashion To Die For - Where Fashion Meets Psychology - The Slow Textiles Group Introduces a New Discourse in the Field on May 30th!

Book your place here:
http://www.ananalysisofstatusanxiety.eventbrite.com/

Monday, 21 May 2012

Become a Researcher with the Slow Textiles Group!

We're very excited to invite you to a special event taking place in the Strategy Lab at HUB Westminster on May 30th at 7.15pm. Previous speakers include the British Prime Minster and Sir Richard Branson. Dr Emma Neuberg, Founder of the Slow Textiles Group, invites you to an open lecture and workshop (online or in person) to address the global fashion system and its social message in the twenty-first century. Attendees will have the opportunity to join an innovative new research project with the Group.

Eventbrite - An Analysis of Status Anxiety as Manifest in the Fashion System

Visual Research for the Slow Textiles Group's Geometric Season Begins!

Sarah's 'Organic Geometric' sketchbook work animated by Emma Neuberg.

The Slow Textiles Group members had a great workshop on May 19th 2012 beginning their visual research and thinking processes for the Slow Textiles Group Geometric Season!

One of the key visual and conceptual themes is to learn from the work of twentieth century deconstructivist artists and designers to continue a visual narrative for twenty-first century textile technologies.

Watch this space for the latest in TRAD/TECH textile narratives!

Monday, 14 May 2012

Slow Textiles is Delighted to Announce the Launch of their Geometric Season!

Slow Textiles manipulate the lovely David Saunders' knitwear: d a v i d d a v i d

We are delighted to announce that over the next few months we are running a collective research project incorporating several Slow Textiles Group members dedicated to an exploration of the geometric form in textiles.

All our workshops, including those on May 19th, July 14th and November 3rd 2012 are dedicated to the theme as well as our exciting first group shows.

Papers, essays and short films are also being produced on the subject, so watch this space or join us to get involved.

What do geometrics mean to you?

Saturday, 12 May 2012

Digital Sculpture and Composite Materials Create a New Smart Fabric

We're really proud of our friends at Random International and fellow Royal College of Art graduates who are pushing the boundaries of smart composite layers with sculpture, textile, architecture and their new place of convergence.

Random International are pioneers in the field. It's always a design pleasure to be moved to tears.

http://random-international.com/

Sunday, 6 May 2012

New Developments in Sustainable Textiles Practice at the V&A!

Sustainable textiles take on an exciting, dynamic new look with the British creative duo that is The People's Print. Co-directors Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg are Professional Members of the Slow Textiles Group. Their pioneering business language and vision has sustainable textiles practice at heart. They are the only big vision company that trains individuals and companies how to apply slow textile methodologies to real life design projects.

Sad you missed the opportunity to work with them on The Great British Floral project as seen here? Then join other Slow Textiles Group Professional Members on May 19th at 2pm for a similar in-house project called Fast/Slow Geometrics: Create Stunning Geometric Digital Textile Patterns from Organic Structures and Traditional Techniques. This is open to members and non-members. Details here.

Monday, 16 April 2012

It's National Gardening Week in the UK and We Have Some Ideas to Get You Working for a Greener Planet Wherever You Are!!

The Royal Horticultural Society has just launched the UK's biggest environmental campaign, Britain in Bloom 2012, to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee!

To start it off, the first ever Royal Horticultural Society's National Gardening Week (that's this week!) has been giving away thousands of wildflower seeds for everyone to sow to help replenish some of the 97% of wildflower meadows lost in the UK since 1930.

The RHS want YOU to plant as many wildflowers as possible and are offering a discount on packets of corn marigold, corn poppy and cornflower, among many other seeds, here. We think you can take inspiration from the UK and do this wherever you are!

Once sown, you can watch your wildflowers bloom and translate your meadow into a pattern to make your own top dedicated to Britain in Bloom!

The wonderful People's Print show you how!

There are free information packs available that tell you all about the Buglife that your wildflowers will encourage and, as you know, agriculture and human survival depends upon healthy buglife!

We're going to make a Bumble Bee and Lavender top next week!

Get inspiration from Melanie Bowles' wonderful Mary's Blouse here and sign up to make your own with her next month here!

If you're in London, you can join the Mad About Meadows groups too here.

We hope that's enough inspiration to get you started!

Friday, 13 April 2012

Slow Textiles Group Members at the V&A - New Floral Course Just For You!! Book Your Place Here!!

Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg are back at the V&A from May 4th with the exciting new People's Print!

This will be an amazing three day digital floral print course to transform your wardrobe! Book your place HERE!

Thursday, 5 April 2012

Next Generation Designers from All Industries Book June 16th Lecture!!

Following hot off the success of Slow Studio's successful first lecture, we're delighted to announce booking is now open for Lecture 2, 'An Introduction to the Corporation's Innate Psychological Relationship with Environmental Destruction' taking place June 16th in central London.

Book your place to join the conversation HERE!

Just maybe there's a connection between the themes of Lectures 1 and 2. Why miss out on the conversation? There'll be a repeat of Lecture 1 at 7pm (GMT+1 for those joining us from overseas) on May 30th hosted by Hub Westminster. Put it in the diary!

Poster detail from Lecture 1 in case you missed it:

Lecturer, presenter, facilitator and activist, Dr Emma Neuberg is a published author and these lectures spearhead her next book.

Sunday, 25 March 2012

Reiko Sudo and Slow Textiles Group Founder, Emma Neuberg, will Introduce the New Show Japanese Style: Sustaining Design on March 31st!!

You're invited to join Reiko Sudo and Dr Emma Neuberg among several preminent British slow textiles practitioners at the opening event of the fabulous new exhibition, Japanese Style: Sustaining Design at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales: japanseasonwales - Home.

Emma will present her textiles work that marries tradition with new technologies. She will talk about her passion for slow textiles and slow design and introduce her new venture, The Slow Design School, and its aims and vision for British and European craft.

She'll also showcase the best of the Slow Textiles Group practitioners.

Further details on the Ruthin Craft Centre shortly: Croeso i Oriel Canolfan Grefft Rhuthun / Welcome to Ruthin Craft Centre.

Hope to see you there!

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The Bigger Picture!!

"If the body is an organism in culture, a cultural artefact, as author Elisabeth Wilson suggests in Adorned in Dreams - Fashion & Modernity, then Slow Fashion and Slow Textiles represent a collective statement of no, our bodies and identities cannot embody culture's prescriptive speeds of fast.

Where cotton fabric is concerned, legs are lost, additional fingers are grown and heads are twice their natural size in many parts of the world. Human deformation and tragedy exist because of fast fashion's long held race to the bottom antics. Agreements to ban endosulfan are only just taking place. Fashion cotton and human misery have had a long history.

Slow Fashion and Slow Textiles becomes a collective statement of no, our bodies and identities cannot embody culture's prescriptive speeds of fast."

Emma Neuberg, 2011

About the Founder of the Slow Textiles Group

Dr Emma Neuberg is a key member of the pioneering Textiles Environment Design research group and an associate member of the Textile Futures Research Group at University of the Arts, London, UK.

She gained her PhD in Printed Textiles at the Royal College of Art in London, the best postgraduate art school in the world!

She works closely with the Chelsea School of Art & Design textile practitioners and researchers developing and disseminating Slow Textiles strategies, frameworks and systems. (Recently she has been attending UK government events to press for policy change and sustainable design and innovation strategies). One of her many collaborations is with the pioneering The People's Print, co-founded with Melanie Bowles, expert in the field.

She lectures at the Centre of Sustainable Fashion at the London College of Fashion with the sustainable fashion designer and visionnaire, Dilys Williams, and pioneer in the field, Dr Kate Fletcher.

Emma has combined roles of artist, designer, lecturer and author for many years. During this time she has been recognised with national awards for her work and pioneering vision.

These include the Winston Churchill Industrial Enterprise Fellowship, the British Federation of Women's Graduate Research Award, the Textile Institute Scholarship and the Creative Pioneer Award from the National Endowment for Science, Technology & the Arts (UK).

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