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Andrea Pecora’s 2016 short film Desula pays an hommage to an almost extinct Sardinian dress tradition. When the women in the village of...

Let this Black Friday mark the beginning of a new obsession. An obsession not with shopping, not with buying more things that we don’t need.

Looking back on my thesis exploring toward women’s relationships with their everyday clothes through the lens of my designer-maker practice.

Bringing together practitioners, researchers, and lecturers through our Erasmus+ project FashionSEEDS to rethink and improve the design...

Sustainability is not a destination; it is a journey. It is a verb rather than a noun. It is not black and white either.

If we want the world to become a better place post Covid-19, we must stand up for the change we want to see...

Prof. Helen Storey has been working closely with course leaders to create a ‘Living curriculum'.

Dr Francesco Mazzarella has been awarded funding from HEIF for the next iteration of Making for Change: Waltham Forest...

It is now clearer than ever that the micro and small fashion businesses that have built their work on the need to do something that matters,

Exploring the concept of Mutual Aid as a framework for care, adding to discussions about an ecologically just post-Covid future.

Throughout the year long project Making for Change: Waltham Forest, its extensive programme facilitated an enriching experience...

Earth Logic, a fashion action research plan offers a radical vision for the fashion industry...to transform by putting Earth first.

Here we are now, in our home offices – researchers, designers, makers, all doing our utmost to adapt to the new circumstances of the COVID.

When we launched Antarctica World Passport in 2008, we believed in international cooperation – Antarctica became a symbol of hope...

Since January 2019, Professor Helen Storey has been working with the UNHCR as ‘Artist in Residence’ at Za’atari Refugee Camp, Jordan...

Blackhorse Lane Ateliers – hosted a research residency as part of ‘Making For Change: Waltham Forest’ a project...

We look back on what the leaders of micro and small businesses who spoke at our 2019 Better Lives event...

As we look back on 2019, a year which saw Waltham Forest being the first London Borough of Culture, it seems a timely opportunity to reflect

Offering a new ‘way in’ to sustainability ideas – we caught up with Kate, on the evolution of Wild Dress – from the initial ideas to...

There are many things that create great discussion and debate in our office, and Black Friday is definitely one of them...