Valuing refugee and migrant voices
As we approach Refugee Week with hopes to galvanise action, CSF researchers Francesco Mazzarella, Helen Storey and Lucy Orta explore the...
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Jan 23, 20233 min read
Stitching the future and the longing for home
“As a designer working in the humanitarian field, humility, listening and the reimagining of one’s own sense of what ‘progress’ should...
Sep 5, 20226 min read
Shifting Charges – provoking mindset change through jewellery
The fashion industry causes negative impacts on society in many ways. For example the abuse of labour rights, compromising of the health of
Jun 16, 20224 min read
Healing Knowledge
After six years of working together with UNHCR and the refugees of Zaatari Refugee Camp, on the Jordan/ Syria border, we have just begun...
Oct 29, 20214 min read
The need for a collective reimagining of climate justice and commitment to action
The world is watching as the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference, the 26th Conference of the Parties (known as COP26) starts in...
Apr 15, 20214 min read
Drawing Reality
There are 400 TIGERS in Zaatari Refugee Camp just now, a group of young people originally self - named as -‘These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Read
Dec 9, 20204 min read
Vital Signs
These are both precious and dangerous times to commit anything to writing; still a time for feeling over pronouncements? Most often...
Jun 18, 20205 min read
Design with humanity – a living curriculum
Prof. Helen Storey has been working closely with course leaders to create a ‘Living curriculum'.
Jan 21, 20204 min read
We know the power of making, but we’ve never applied it in such extreme circumstances
Since January 2019, Professor Helen Storey has been working with the UNHCR as ‘Artist in Residence’ at Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan...
Oct 21, 20133 min read
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...
Oct 7, 20133 min read
Plastic is precious
Over the past five years, Centre for Sustainable Fashion has looked a lot at the relationship between fashion, materials and sustainability.
Jun 17, 20133 min read
Wonderland
Most often, on this creative journey of recent years, collaborations have been kicked into life when something else in life has been going w
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