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Usable Pasts, Sustainable Futures: The Clothing Lab



Through this interdisciplinary public-facing research engagement, we aim to revisit and bring into renewed circulation historically effective practices that can help mitigate climate change. We hope to achieve this through generating new conversations around forms of urban living in the 21st century as they relate to the issues of public health and climate change, with the involvement of specialists, students, and the general public. We have identified three key nodes or ‘industries’ around which our host city of Ahmedabad has been organised historically: food, clothing, and housing, with a view to connecting each one to urban life, collective health issues, and the crises sparked by climate change. The long-term objective would be to drive positive transformation from below through public engagements, reports, and a published volume on the topic.

The Clothing Lab 
The Clothing Lab brings together practitioners from different domains of expertise including the handicrafts sector, design solutions, sustainable fashion, media, public health, and climate change into discussions around ‘Clothing’, which is one of the three nodes that serve as anchoring points for the larger Usable Pasts, Sustainable Futures project.

Date: November 4, 2022
Time: 6 pm to 8 pm (High Tea from 5:15 pm onwards)
Venue: Room 110, University Centre, Ahmedabad University

Resource Persons 
Lab Anchor: Archana Shah, Bandhej, Ahmedabad
Sohini Dey, The Voice of Fashion, Delhi
Ashima Gupta, Silāi Studio, Ahmedabad
Madan Meena, Visual artist and Researcher, Rajasthan
Sushma Iyengar, Social Activist and Educator, Bhuj
Uma Prajapati, Creative Director, Upasana, Pondicherry
Shruti Singh, Fashion Revolution India, Delhi
Gunjan Jain, Textile and Craft Designer, Delhi
Anuj Sharma, Button Masala, Ahmedabad
Chaitsi Rajendrakumar Ahuja, Brown Living, Mumbai
Tejaswini Niranjana, Director, Centre for Inter-Asian Research, Ahmedabad University

Student Participants
Srutisri Kalyana Sundaram, IMS, Life Sciences
Shambhavee Gaurang Joshi, BA (Honours), Psychology
Asmita Gattamraju, IMS, Life Sciences
 

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