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Jun 9, 20235 min read

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...

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