About this Event
In the context of climate crisis, ethical production and cultural resilience, this event invites designers, educators, students and industry partners to rethink the role of craft in shaping our future.
Keynote speaker, Carry Somers, founder of Fashion Revolution and co-founder and Director of Advocacy and Programmes at the League of Artisans, will draw on her extensive work with Indigenous communities and traditional artisans around the world. Her talk will explore craft as a carrier of ecological knowledge, cultural memory and place-based identity and will reflect on how storytelling, transparency and material awareness can transform fashion and design systems.
The evening will feature:
- a keynote talk by Carry Somers
- an interactive panel discussion
- space for open questions and audience participation
- opportunities to network and continue conversations informally
We will place particular focus on the role of craft within education and the curriculum, asking how institutions can embed making, repair, circularity and heritage knowledge into teaching and professional practice.
Guests will also have the opportunity to meet some of the Sri Lankan artisans and European brand partners involved in the EU–Sri Lanka Craft Matchmaking Programme, and to learn more about their collaborative projects.
This will be a warm, conversational and thought-provoking event that celebrates craft not as nostalgia, but as a dynamic, future-shaping practice.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00
