How to give up plastics
21 June

Will McCallum, Head of Oceans at Greenpeace UK, will be giving a free talk next week with the aim of helping us to give up plastic and how to make the small changes that can make a big difference.

He will share his ideas and experience at Greenpeace on the battle to break our dependency to plastics. As part of this effort, Will is also launching a book called “ How to Give Up Plastic: A Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time, which will also be available at the talk.

The talk, organised by the University’s Development Studies Group (DSG) in collaboration with the Research Theme on Sustainability and the Environment, takes places on Tuesday 26 June at 6pm in Lecture Theatre 2.23 of the University’s Park Building.

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Award-winning student
15 June

BA Fashion and Textile Design student, Rose Dutton has won the Batsford Prize for the fashion category under the theme ‘craving colour’

The batsford Prize 2018 is for students, with a prize pot worth £7,000 and a new international category. The theme of the Batsford Prize 2018 was ‘Craving Colour’, entries  were asked to show innovative and well-crafted interpretations of colour in terms of subject of materials used, or a combination of the two.

Rose Dutton’s awarded collection Slot, Swoosh, Squish is a playful sustainable fashion collection. Long gone are the earthy neutral tones associated with fashion, which take an ecological standpoint.

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Lecturer exhibits films across Europe
15 June 

Lara Torres, a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for MA Fashion & Textiles, will be showcasing some of her films across Europe this summer.

Lara’s An Impossible Wardrobe for the Invisible has been showing at the 55th Venice Biennale, from May 22 until 17 June in a group show celebrating 10 years of MA Fashion Artefact challenging boundaries between fashion and art.

The film will also be shown alongside one of Lara’s films Unmaking at Kalmar Konst Museum in Sweden, at the exhibition TRANSFASHIONAL, which explores experimental fashion in the context of contemporary art. The films will be shown here until 30 September.

Read more here.

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