Slow Textiles is Delighted to Announce the Launch of their Geometric Season!

Slow Textiles manipulate the lovely David Saunders' knitwear: d a v i d d a v i d

We are delighted to announce that over the next few months we are running a collective research project incorporating several Slow Textiles Group members dedicated to an exploration of the geometric form in textiles.

All our workshops, including those on May 19th, July 14th and November 3rd 2012 are dedicated to the theme as well as our exciting first group shows. 

Papers, essays and short films are also being produced on the subject, so watch this space or join us to get involved.

What do geometrics mean to you?

Digital Sculpture and Composite Materials Create a New Smart Fabric

We're really proud of our friends at Random International and fellow Royal College of Art graduates who are pushing the boundaries of smart composite layers with sculpture, textile, architecture and their new place of convergence.

Random International are pioneers in the field. It's always a design pleasure to be moved to tears.

http://random-international.com/

New Developments in Sustainable Textiles Practice at the V&A!

Sustainable textiles take on an exciting, dynamic new look with the British creative duo that is The People's Print. Co-directors Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg are Professional Members of the Slow Textiles Group. Their pioneering business language and vision has sustainable textiles practice at heart. They are the only big vision company that trains individuals and companies how to apply slow textile methodologies to real life design projects.

Sad you missed the opportunity to work with them on The Great British Floral project as seen here? Then  join other Slow Textiles Group Professional Members on May 19th at 2pm for a similar in-house project  called Fast/Slow Geometrics: Create Stunning Geometric Digital Textile Patterns from Organic Structures and Traditional Techniques. This is open to members and non-members. Details here.

Slow Textiles Group at HUB Westminster!!

It's National Gardening Week in the UK and We Have Some Ideas to Get You Working for a Greener Planet Wherever You Are!!

The Royal Horticultural Society has just launched the UK's biggest environmental campaign, Britain in Bloom 2012, to mark the Queen's Diamond Jubilee!

To start it off, the first ever Royal Horticultural Society's National Gardening Week (that's this week!) has been giving away thousands of wildflower seeds for everyone to sow to help replenish some of the 97% of wildflower meadows lost in the UK since 1930.

The RHS want YOU to plant as many wildflowers as possible and are offering a discount on packets of corn marigold, corn poppy and cornflower, among many other seeds, here. We think you can take inspiration from the UK and do this wherever you are!

Once sown, you can watch your wildflowers bloom and translate your meadow into a pattern to make your own top dedicated to Britain in Bloom!

The wonderful People's Print show you how!

There are free information packs available that tell you all about the Buglife that your wildflowers will encourage and, as you know, agriculture and human survival depends upon healthy buglife!

We're going to make a Bumble Bee and Lavender top next week!

Get inspiration from Melanie Bowles' wonderful Mary's Blouse here and sign up to make your own with her next month here!

If you're in London, you can join the Mad About Meadows groups too here.

We hope that's enough inspiration to get you started!

Slow Textiles Group Members at the V&A - New Floral Course Just For You!! Book Your Place Here!!

Melanie Bowles and Emma Neuberg are back at the V&A from May 4th with the exciting new People's Print!

This will be an amazing three day digital floral print course to transform your wardrobe! Book your place HERE!

Next Generation Designers from All Industries Book June 16th Lecture!!

Following hot off the success of Slow Studio's successful first lecture, we're delighted to announce booking is now open for Lecture 2, 'An Introduction to the Corporation's Innate Psychological Relationship with Environmental Destruction' taking place June 16th in central London.

Book your place to join the conversation HERE!

Just maybe there's a connection between the themes of Lectures 1 and 2. Why miss out on the conversation? There'll be a repeat of Lecture 1 at 7pm (GMT+1 for those joining us from overseas) on May 30th hosted by Hub Westminster. Put it in the diary!

Poster detail from Lecture 1 in case you missed it:

Lecturer, presenter, facilitator and activist, Dr Emma Neuberg is a published author and these lectures spearhead her next book.

Reiko Sudo and Slow Textiles Group Founder, Emma Neuberg, will Introduce the New Show Japanese Style: Sustaining Design on March 31st!!

You're invited to join Reiko Sudo and Dr Emma Neuberg among several preminent British slow textiles practitioners at the opening event of the fabulous new exhibition, Japanese Style: Sustaining Design at the Ruthin Craft Centre in Wales: japanseasonwales - Home.

Emma will present her textiles work that marries tradition with new technologies. She will talk about her passion for slow textiles and slow design and introduce her new venture, The Slow Design School, and its aims and vision for British and European craft.

She'll also showcase the best of the Slow Textiles Group practitioners.

Further details on the Ruthin Craft Centre shortly: Croeso i Oriel Canolfan Grefft Rhuthun / Welcome to Ruthin Craft Centre.

Hope to see you there!

What Social Outcome does your Design Strategy Have? Open Lectures and Debate Start March 24th 2012 at Slow Studio, London

What fuels humans between the ages of 16 and 36 to discard millions of tonnes of clothing, shoes and accessories across the globe each year?

British philosopher, Alain de Botton, suggests a significant contributing factor is 'status anxiety'. 

He lists five cultural contributors to status anxiety. These are lovelessness, snobbery, expectation, meritocracy and dependency. 

These are socially driven dynamics. 

As a human being and a creative, how will you create designs, systems and services that address the destructive aspect of these cultural traits? How can your design skills intervene and stall systems of  lovelessness, snobbery, expectation, meritocracy and dependency?

The Slow Design Lectures & Seminars start March 24th 2012 in London.

Book your place to start the conversation HERE!

To Celebrate Climate Week, Earlybird Discounts All Week!!

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To get the best earlybird Climate Week discounts on all our workshops, lectures, seminars, film showings, discussion groups and presentations, become a member first then book your favourite events!

Once the early bird offer expires on Monday 19th March, we introduce a flash new streamlined booking system!