Stroud International Textile Festival presents: Future Textiles - Illustrated talks

Date:09/05/2009

Time: 11 am

Kate Goldsworthy & Dr Emma Neuberg
‘Upcycling and New Technologies’
Illustrated talks

‘Upcycling/Recycling’
Kate Goldsworthy has been designing with reclaimed textiles since 2000, with the intention of challenging preconceptions around recycled materials and elevating their status to one of value. This presentation will look at her practice based PhD project to create ‘upcycled’ textiles, using laser technologies to renew and resurface waste synthetic materials. She will outline the technologies that could potentially change the way we recycle our textile waste, and how the designer is absolutely key to this process of collaborative design thinking and enterprise. Kate is a designer and researcher in the area of new finishing technologies, materials R & D and design for recycling. Her passion lies with the sustainability in the textile world, particularly the recycling and reuse of polyesters. Recent work has focused on the concept of life-cycle thinking and ‘designing-in’ solutions as part of the creative process. Her current work explores these themes along with the new manufacturing processes and digital technologies to ‘upcycle’ synthetic materials. She is based in Chelsea College of Art & Design in the Textiles Environment Design Dept (www.tedresearch.net)
www.kategoldsworthy.co.uk

‘Long Life Design-from Straw to Gold’
Dr Emma Neuberg is both an artist and designer; Emma has been imbuing plastic materials with luxury and new meaning for over ten years. Her presentation will examine the cultural meanings that lie behind her work and the work of others’ in this field. From Richard Liddle to El Anatsui, artists and designers see the beauty and scope in what others consider as rubbish. Dr Neuberg will explore elements of group dynamics that contribute to today’s unsustainable, non-relational behavioral patterns. She will show that these unsustainable aspects permeate all relationships, not just our attitudes to materials. She hopes to animate a dialogue on how we relate to ourselves, each other and the world around us. Looking at design, long term vision and creative practice.
Dr Neuberg is an artist and designer. Her specialism is synthetics. She has worked with fashion designers and architects, and with Kate Goldsworthy, as part of the Textiles Environment Design (TED) research group based at Chelsea College of Art & Design, London.
www.emmaneuberg.blogspot.com

The talks will follow on from each other and should be seen as one presentation. There will be opportunities for discussion

This event is part of the Stroud International Textile Festival 09
1 – 21 May

Tickets: £15.00   Students & Friends of SIT £10.00
To book contact the Festival office on 01453 808076
www.stroudinternationaltextiles.org.uk

Contact Name: Lizzi Walton

Location: Gallery 2, Museum in the Park, Stratford Park, Stroud, GL5 4AF

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