Prof. Helen Storey
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2017
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The Za’atari LOVECOATS
This week saw CSF’s Prof. Helen Storey return from her fourth trip to the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. Helen started working with those living at camp in 2016 after she was gifted a UNHCR decommissioned refugee tent. From the tent Helen created the ‘Dress For Our Time’, a project which uses the power of […]
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We stand with refugees
Refugee: a person who flees for refuge or safety Refuge: a place or situation providing safety or shelter. To take refuge: to seek safety or comfort in being safe Home: a place one lives, a place one can take refuge 20th June is World Refugee Day; this week is Refugee week. Never has it been more important […]
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2015
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Dress For Our Time – Chapter 1
With COP21 fast approaching (30 November – 11 December), CSF members are busy organising events and activities to mark the occasion. I have had the pleasure of supporting one of these projects, Dress For Our Time, a project by Helen Storey. Witnessing its development from initial discussion to sketch to the first chapter which will […]
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2014
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2 songs & designing for now
This piece has two beginnings – Here’s the first: In January of this year I asked esteemed colleagues from industry, science and academia to share with us how the future appeared from their perspectives. None had seen each others presentations before showing them, but each ended, one way or another, on a date, a tipping […]
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A pure revolution
(By Prof. Helen Storey) 一场净化的革命 净化之衣中国行——净化我们呼吸的空气！ At the end of November last year The British Council invited Prof Tony Ryan and I to share how we work with Chinese Universities – As the UK representatives for the ‘Creative Minds’ series, clocking up 6 lectures, in 6 cities, in 6 days was gruelling, but it gave […]
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2013
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Habit(at) Field Day
Last week we held our second ever Field Day at The Trampery in London Fields. We chose the theme Habit(AT) to provide the frame for our thinking around issues related to urbanisation, sustainable cities and the role that fashion can and could play. We hold Field Days as they are a way for us to share […]
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Craft is radical
Craft, at its best, is a radical force. In the face of a world now largely in the tow of speed, you could consider craft an extreme. It has the power to moderate; it’s an invitation to share the forensics of us and to notice our own detail, whilst gifting us too, an opportunity to feel […]
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Plastic is precious
Over the past five years, Centre for Sustainable Fashion has looked a lot at the relationship between fashion, materials and sustainability. Through projects like Shared Talent India and Nike Mobilize Makers, we have challenged existing assumptions around the environmental impact of materials and asked designers, makers and consumers to challenge them too. In this latest […]
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Wonderland
Most often, on this creative journey of recent years, collaborations have been kicked into life when something else in life has been going wrong … you could take ‘ going wrong’ from many perspectives, from something global to something closer to home, but on this occasion it was a project that had hit a creative […]
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