http://makingfutures.plymouthart.ac.uk/mf3.php?pageID=10 (Accessed on 12 October 13 at 3.30)
Plymouth College of Art in association with Crysalis, an EC project funded under the INTERREG IV A 2 Seas Programme.
MAKING FUTURES
textiles sector is vast. it has social and environmental consequences , that outstrip other practices. effects are entwined in production and consumption, they traverse the exploitative regimes of the ‘sweatshop’ and a progressive activism rooted in a micro-politics of DIY, ‘Craftivism’, transition and slow movement thinking.
The terrain is complex entails seemingly contradictory turns. artisanal workshops can be just as polluting as a large regulated and efficient factory; pesticides are used heavily on cotton crops while the mordants used with dyes can be extremely toxic. synthetic does not inevitably equate with bad: enormous advances in synthetic cellulose fibers based upon sources of potentially sustainable raw materials.
government and some large manufactures, have made very significant contributions. small-scale initiatives and interventions are often particularly effective in addressing specific localized circumstances.
the range of activity,and the complex requirements creates an exceptionally challenging field of enquiry with opportunities to learn, to develop, and make positive impacts.
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