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…

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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…

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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…

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To Celebrate Climate Week, Earlybird Discounts All Week!!

Click the pic! 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! 

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V&A Textiles Archives Reinterpreted

Violet Daisy, Digital Animation, Emma Neuberg, 2012. Here at the Slow Studio, London, we have been working  on a research project (between Chelsea College of Art and the V&A) that builds upon our passion for the trad-tech convergence and trajectory. We have been studying the traditional stencil prints of 1920s Paris used for fashion and…

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Louis Vuitton and Mental Capital through Craft

The Louis Vuitton collaboration with Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is a fascinating one in so much as LV is the world’s iconic brand for supporting craft and artisanship today. Yayoi Kusama is well known for suffering from mental illness; indeed, she resides in a psychiatric ward, as mentioned in the Louis Vuitton film. The extent…

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