The Grenchus Foundation @The Future Forum ~ Fabricating The Future Eco-Sustainability in Fashion and Design

It was a pleasure to attend this fabulous event and to support these creators on their journey! So excited to see many using their gifts and talents… and doing what they are passionate about - to better the lives of others and to live a life of meaning here and to be fulfilling their purpose! A pleasure to discuss Eco-Sustainability and the way forward in Fashion and Design! So Proud of these women below creating change on the forefront and advancing Eco-Sustainable practices in Fashion and Design.

The FUTURE FORUM:

Each year German and American thought leaders from academia, the public and private sectors convene to exchange perspectives, find collaborators and determine a collective path toward a progressive future. The first FUTURE FORUM was held in 2019 in Brooklyn on the topic of artificial intelligence. In 2020, the forum was held virtually focusing on cities and climate. In 2021, a hybrid FUTURE FORUM in Chicago centered on societies in transition and effects of the COVID-19 pandemic.

According to the United Nations, the fashion industry is responsible for 10% of global carbon emissions, ranking it in the top 5 most polluting industries.

2022 began with a promise to change that. In February, New York State announced the "Fashion Act," that if passed, would make New York the first US state to hold fashion brands accountable for their climate change impact. This first-of-its-kind law would force sustainability obligations on all apparel companies profiting more than $100 million in New York. Across the pond, the EU is passing its own legislation to curb unsustainable manufacturing, and designers all over the globe have begun experimenting with eco-friendly fabrics made from algae to pineapples.

This is a moment of decisive change. Governments, companies, and individuals are ready to propel the fashion and textile industry into a more sustainable future. Let's re-envision what it means to get dressed every day!!

FASHION IDENTITY

Hannah Glaser:

Multidisciplinary designer and fashion scholar,

GREEN CYCLES

Hannah Glaser is a multidisciplinary designer and fashion scholar. With a BA in Visual Communication and a MA in International Fashion Management, Hannah observes questions of identity, ideology and clothing through the lens of visual arts and humanities in her work, exploring the intersection of fashion and culture.

Highlighting her passion for interdisciplinary research thus far spans the fields of costume history and fashion studies, as well as sociological and psychological topics, Hannah’s work investigates the impact of new stylistic and aesthetic criteria on processes of identification and fashion garment lifespans as an approach that addresses new sustainable thinking.

FASHION MATERIALS OF THE FUTURE

Anne-Marie Sust ~

Fashion Designer ~ Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences

Find her on Instagram: @why.colours.matter

PRINTING ON TEXTILES WITH MICRO-ALGAE INKS:

Anne Marie States: Current manufacturing and dyeing processes in the fashion industry are focused on the use of non-sustainable textiles and highly polluting dyes. Interdisciplinary collaboration between design and natural science has resulted in innovative microalgae inks for printing on textiles. The aim of this work is to sensitise the viewer to the temporary and sustainable nature of clothing, as the prints dissolve when they come into contact with light. It is up to the wearer to decide how to deal with the “living” microalgae prints. In this way, organic processes and their temporary nature are elevated to the level of aesthetics.

About Anne-Marie Sust: I am an inspiring fashion designer who has found her passion in the intersection of urban design and innovative research. She won the Green Concept Award 2022 in the category of fashion. Her fashion collection “Why Colours Matter” was launched in Fabricating the Future Conference. She will be exhibiting her collection at Dutch Design Week 2022 (Eindhoven, the Netherlands) at the Bio Art Labrotorium and Fashion Tech Farm.

Barbro Scholz ~

PLEATING WITH ORIGAMI PAPER - ON FABRIC -

INTERACTIONS WITH LIGHT

Barbro is an artist and textile designer, at the moment located in Munich. She has a background in industrial design and textile design with a focus on electronic textiles and interaction. Her interest is the impact of designed objects on society, especially textiles as user-interfaces for technical devices or as the device itself. She thinks the change of possibilities in material choices and size for devices raise new questions to designers. She believes that our life and behavior change and that the designer’s visionary role becomes even more important as well as the responsibility of designers to ask critical questions. Using the space where arts and design meets gives a chance to allow discussions beside consumer objects.

Bea Bruecker:

Bio-designer

ALGAE BASED FAUX LEATHER

Bea Brücker is a biodesigner, researcher and artist. Her work explores the potential of biodesign as a tool for social, political and ecological progress in response to the climate catastrophe and increasing social injustice. Since completing her MA at the Royal College of Art she has taught the Bio platform of the MA Fashion programme there.She is part of the Centre for Design Research in Hamburg and regularly works on multidisciplinary projects, for example with researchers from the Fraunhofer Society, with makerspaces or on theatre and film projects. Her research explores the development of biomaterials, digital tools based on biological-structure formation and new fabrication technologies to develop an accessible climate- positive, post-capitalist biodesign practice. Her work interrogates how the combination of biodesign practices and new fabrication technologies could be used as a tool for an economically and socially liberating design and art practice. It is an expression of her fascination with the relationship between us and our natural and digital environments. She explores the intersection of design and art, new technologies, ecology and computational design. Working with biomaterials, installations, fashion and animation, designs for alternate realities emerges, critically addressing issues such as neoliberalism, transhumanism and technologically enhanced ecologies. As a lecturer and speaker, she discusses the challenges of the climate crisis and the importance of systemic change. Bea Brücker's work have won numerous awards, including the Fraunhofer 'High Tech Meets Tradition Competition, Artsthread x Gucci Global Design Graduate Award, Future Fashion Competition, Silberstreifen Award and the Wesldet Exhibition Award. She earned her master’s degree in Fashion Biowear from the RCA in London in 2021. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelor's degree at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and a DAAD-funded exchange semester at California State University Long Beach. After graduating, she was part of the Youth Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, a two-year sustainability programme launched by the UN Global Compact, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit and the Global Fashion Agenda. Bea Brücker's work has been shown at Fashionclash Festival (2021), Westfield's Future Fashion (2021) at Berlin Fashion Week- Neo Fashion (2019) and in various exhibitions. Her work has been featured in iD Magazine, ARTS THREAD, Nick Knight's SHOWstudio, 1GRANARY and ZEITGEIST.

Aradhita Parasrampuria:

Materials Developer and Educator, Slow Factory Labs and Parsons

https://aradhitaparasrampuria.net/

ECO-FRIENDLY, ETHICAL AND AFFORDABLE TEXTILES

She is passionate about Ecological Design and creating circular design systems. She specialize in Materials R&D. She creates scientific, eco-friendly, ethical, and affordable textiles to help replace toxic petroleum-based products. I work primarily with organisms such as Algae, Escherichia coli, and Mycelium. She was an Aronson Fellow at the Tishman Environment and Design Center. My work has been featured in Vogue, L'officiel Brazil, CFDA, No-Kill Magazine, New York Design Week, Mana Contemporary, and Talking Textiles.

PHYSICAL VS. VIRTUAL ~ A POLEMIC LIVE DEBATE ~

Anna Wubber:

Diploma in Costume Design at Haw Hamburg, University of Applied Sciences, Department Design

Specialized in Sketching Design Drawings, Specialized in the Construction of Masks and Special Costumes

2007-2008 Assistant to Reinhard VD Thannen (Costume Designer of the Year 2011), 2014 Assistant to Thomas Olah (the physician)

Today, Costume design combines anna’s love for the cinema and her interest in working artistically with various materials. Inventing characters, together with directors and actors, and thereby creating a visual reality of a movie is Anna’s way of a great story that is waiting to be told.

FILM PRODUCTIONS:

LAGO FILM, ONE TWO FILMS, SOMMERHAUS FILM, WALKER + WORM FILM, Q - FILM, VIEWMASTER FILMS, MARKENFILM, X- FILME, JUNAFILM, VIOLET PICTURES, JYOTI FILM, BLM, ELEMENT - E, STERNTAG FILM, MYPONY, E+P COMMERCIAL, PLEXUS PRODUCTIONS, NU PROJECTS,
NOYZ R UZ FILMS, KLAPPBOXFILME, A MOST WANTED MAN PRODUCTION, AREPO MEDIA, MÜNCHNER FILMWERKSTATT, LIEBLINGSFILM,
ZIGGY MEDIAHOUSE, CZAR FILM, FERRY FILM, GEBRÜDER BEETZ FILMPRODUKTION

DIRECTORS:

FATIH AKIN, THOMAS STUBER, KATRIN GEBBE, BURHAN QRBANI, JAN SPECKENBACH, JESSICA KRUMMACHER, PHILIPP LEINEMANN, ANCA MIRUNA LAZARESCU, GEORGI BANKS-DAVIES, NIKIAS CHRISSOS, CRISTIAN STRAUB, KATHARINA DUVE, TIMO SCHIERHORN, ALEX FEIL, LARS BÜCHEL, DAVID KÖNIGSMANN/FELIX PAUL, BERND UND JEFF, THORSTEN KIRVES, ARON KRAUSE, KLAUS SPENDSER, WOLFBERG, PHILIPP WOLFF, NORBERT HEITKER, BENJAMIN BRETTSCHNEIDER, JONAS SCHOLZ