Tone Skårdal Tobiasson will present the report THE PLASTIC ELEPHANT at the conference.
Natural Fibre Connect (NFC) is an alliance between leading alpaca, cashmere, mohair and wool organisations. The NFC logo represents each of these four natural fibres, woven together by their shared goals and challenges as well as their commitment to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – as seen by its resemblance to the SDG17 icon.
The goal of NFC is a world with more Natural Fibres by 2030. Through its events, NFC enables consensus building as well as sharing and understanding of the growers’ and herders’ perspectives.
In-Person Conference in Biella, Italy
Actively participate and connect with others at the in-person main conference Natural Fibre Connect 2023 hosted in Biellay, Italy – the center for manufacturing precious animal fibres. Visit various mills, listen to live speakers and participate in workshops and panel discussions while also enjoying the beautiful surroundings, food, and drink of Northern Italy.
Online Conference
Join Natural Fibre Connect from the comfort of your home and listen to all live sessions, workshops, and panel discussions. Network with other online participants, visit the online exhibition hall and ask questions. Presentations will be translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Mongolian. Did you miss a session? No problem, all recordings will be available after the conference.
Webinar, Friday 11th of August 2023, 09:00-10:00, Oslo/Zoom.
Four intern students in the Avfall Norge REdu project have worked on the SIFO proposal for TPR (read more about this here), and will present the results from this work at 9 am CET on the 11th August via Zoom. We are eagerly awaiting these results, as this is the first time we will get answers to whether the textiles that end up in various waste streams can be identified by brand, if we can estimate how long their duration of service has been and in what state they are for reuse or recycling.
The seminar is free and open to all and can be accessed via this zoom-link. The meeting ID is 828 0060 9300.
Welcome!
Both Wasted Textiles and the REdu picking analysis project are financed by the Norwegian Retail Environmental Fund.
Webinar title: Latest research on textile circularity and sustainable consumption models
The Innovation in Circular and Biobased Textiles Masterclass (textileplatform.eu) was launched in May 2022, and runs until the end of this year, with monthly webinars. The participating organizations come from industry (from start-ups to corporates), associations, universities and research institutes, from all across Europe.
A webinar typically has 4-5 speakers and 2 Q&A moments, where questions can be addressed to speakers.
14:00-14:10 – Introduction
14:10-14:35 – Topic: Characterisation study of the incoming and outgoing streams from sorting facilities (exact title tbc) by Véronique Allaire Spitzer, Re_fashion (FR)
14:35-15:00 – Garment Quality and Product Lifetime – Kirsi Niinimäki, Aalto University (FI)
15:00-15:25 – Favorite Wardrobe – a research project about wardrobe utilization by Ann-Charlotte Mellquist, RI.SE (SE)
15:25-15:40 – Q&A
15:40-15:50 – Break
15:50-16:15 – Setting the right target: why clothing environmental policy should aim at production volumes reductions by Irene Maldini, Oslo Metropolitan University
16:15-16:40 – EPR as a silver bullet: How to reduce overproduction by Tone Skårdal Tobiasson & Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Oslo Metropolitan University
16:40-16:50 – Q&A
16:50-17:00 – Wrap-up and outlook next webinars & activities
March 14th, 2023, 10 am to 12 noon. Athene 1 (auditorium), Pilestredet 46, OsloMet.
PhD Candidate Anna Schytte Sigaard will present preliminary findings based on data collection from 28 Norwegian households in three areas of Norway: Oslo, Vestfold and Salten. This is part of her PhD Want Not, Waste Not: A wardrobe study approach to minimizing textile waste from Norwegian households.
Each household collected textile items that they would have otherwise discarded during a period of 6 months. They participated in a start-up interview at the beginning of the collection period and two interviews about the collected textiles after 3 and 6 months. All textiles (more than 3000 pieces) were brought to SIFO for analysis where they have been registered according to different physical properties and the story for each textile, from acquisition to disposal, has been recorded.
The findings will grant insights into consumption of clothing and other textiles from households in Norway.
A more detailed agenda will be shared closer to the event date.
Snacks and coffee/tea will be provided.
Location: Athene 1 (auditorium), Pilestredet 46, 0170 Oslo
If you are interested in joining in person, please contact Anna Schytte Sigaard. email: annasiga@oslomet.no
Thursday 1. December, 14.00-15.15, NM Hotel Nuremberg, Germany
IWTO | Wool Round Table 2022 | Programme
Programme Venue: NH Hotel Nuremberg, Germany Day One Thursday, 1 December 2022 Time Session 08.00 – 09.00 Registration 09.15 – 10.00 Opening Session Wolf Edmayr – Welcome from IWTO Klaus Kraatz – Welcome from German National Committee Klaus Steger – Welcome from Suedwolle Group 10.00 – 11.00 Market Intelligence Dirk Vantyghem – EU Textile Legislation Joachim Schulz – German Textile Industry Overview Isak Staats (Committee Chair) – Global Wool Market Indicators 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee Break 11.30 – 12.30 Wool and Retail Peter Ackroyd (Committee Chair) – Retail Market Overview 12.30 – 14.00 Lunch 14.00 – 15.15 Wool Sustainability Emma Gittoes – Make The Label Count Heinz Zeller – Wool Retail & Sustainability Ingun Klepp – Norwegian Consumer Agency Ruling Paul Swan – Sustainable Standards 15.15 – 16.15 Health & Wellness Nick Davenport – The Air We Breathe Natalie Harrison – Wool & Cosmetics 16.15 – 16.45 Coffee Break
Seminar, 19th-22nd October 2022, Klæbu and Frøya, Trøndelag, Norway
Selbu Spinning Mill is organising a seminar focusing on the results of some of their ongoing projects. The seminar is co-organised with The University of South-Eastern Norway (USN). We look into the future – for the local use of wool together with some of our project partners.
During 4 days of theory and practice, we dive into the sustainable utilization of local, and often coarse wool. Attendants will learn and discuss the use of local wool in several different countries and for different purposes, depending on the quality of the wool. The seminar includes an exhibition of products connected to the theme and the projects. All wool can be of good quality – for a specific use. The seminar is open to anyone interested in local wool, traditional wool craft, and the use of wool in new products.
Venues/locations: Selbu Spinning Mill, Klæbu, Trondheim, Norway – and Frøya
Day 1 Excursion to the island Frøya, the heather landscape on the west coast of Trøndelag in Mid-Central Norway.
Day 2 starts at Selbu Spinning Mill, then in Vikingveien at Ullverket
Day 3 on Seminarplassen, Festsalen, then at Selbu spinneri
Day 4 Ullverket, then at Selbu spinneri
Program
Wednesday October 19th: Excursion to Frøya
07.00-10.30: We travel by car to Frøya (2hrs 45 min).
10.30: We meet Brit and Ola Vie, at the farm Nerklubben. Ola takes us through the cultural landscapes at the farm, and he tells about the conservation of the heather landscape. Brit shows her products made from yarn spun at Selbu spinneri, of the sheep that grazes in the heather landscape.
12.30: Lunch at Titran, Kjervågsundet, in Ingvild’s fishemans cottage.
13.30: Short walk in the heather landscape around Ingvild’s cottage
14.00-17.00: travel back to Trondheim by car.
Thursday October 20th:
10.00-14.00: Project planning and report for project participants.
17.00-20.00: Hand dyeing short course with Nina Alsborn
Friday October 21st: international cooperation projects on local wool
10.00: Registration and coffee/tea
10.15: Introduction
1030-11.00: Opening lecture: Local, Slow and Sustainable Fashion: Wool as a Fabric for Change, Tone Tobiasson (NICE Fashion), Ingun Grimstad Klepp (SIFO, Oslo Met)
11.00-11.15: Nordenfjeldske Fibershed: The first established Fibershed in Norway Årolija Svedal Jørgensrud and Nina Alsborn
11.15-11.30: ULLDAGA: Local wool in art and architecture in Central Norway” Ina Samdal, PhD Candidate in architecture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim
11.30 -12.00: Ave Matsin and colleagues: Presentation of the Estonian-Norwegian cooperation wool project: results from Estonia – spinning, textiles, fiber and textile report, state of the art concerning local wool in Estonia (title, names of lecturers, time needed etc is to be clarified)
12.00-12.30: Eli Wendelbo, USN, and selected students: Presentation of the Estonian-Norwegian cooperation wool project: Results from Norway, – weaving and walking of the wool textiles.
12.30-13.30: Lunch
13.30-14.00: Results from WOOLUME, Poland: Jan Broda and colleagues, University of Bielsko-Biala
14.00-14.30: Results from Hiwool, Portugal: Mafalda and colleagues
14.30-15.00: Ingvild Espelien: The sorting of fleeces and spinning of the wool – working on international projects at Selbu Spinning Mill.
15.00-16.00: Exhibition of products from all projects.
16.00-17.00: A guided tour at Selbu Spinning Mill
17.00: End of the public part of the seminar
17.00-17.30: Evaluation of the projects (short) and discussion – Future cooperation and project plans? Only for the project participants and invited persons.
17.30: Finnish
Digital participation Friday 10.00-16.00 (150NOK)
Saturday October 22nd Practical day: Workshops and courses
10.00: Introduction and plan for the day
10:30: Workshops start. The workshop is organized in parallel sections. You sign up for two different workshops.
10.30-12.30: Wool sorting: we sort a selection of wool fleeces for different purposes and discuss the utilisation of different wool qualities, and we compare this with the finished products from the projects. Ingvild
10.30-12.30: Spinning (Marte Espelien Blomli)
12.30.-13.30: Lunch
13.30-15.30: Felting and walking (Nina Alsborn, Årolilja Svedal Jørgensrud, Will Riedlinger/Eli Wendelbo)
13.30-15.30: Weaving (Bente Østigård, Ingvild S. Espelien)
What kinds of synthetic fibers and chemicals are woven into the clothes you wear — and what impact does this have on your health and on the environment? What are the different stages of the lifecycle of the clothes and fabrics, plastics and additives? From production, marketing, consumption and disposal, fashion products based on synthetic fabrics eventually become plastic pollution. What are the alternatives? What policies are needed?
Kirsi Laitala is among the speakers at the webinar.
At the WEAR Conference 6th-7th October, 2022. Virtual/In-person at Beanfield Centre, Toronto.
LCAs and the Great Data Gap
The fashion industry is facing a critical issue when it comes to data. The majority of brands rely on lifecycle assessments (LCAs) which use global averages to …
A conversation between:
Ingun Grimstad Klepp Professor – Clothing and Sustainability, Consumption Research Norway, Oslo Metropolitan University
Ani Wells Communications Lead, Transformers Foundation
Karine Kicak Associate Director Sustainable Product & Consumption, Anthesis
Vidhura Ralapanawe Executive VP, Epic Group
WEAR Conference
WEAR is Canada’s premier forum hosted by Fashion Takes Action, that aims to inspire and accelerate sustainability within the global fashion industry. This year’s theme, Impact with Intention, recognizes that it’s not enough to simply set a goal. Intention provides us with purpose, inspiration and motivation to achieve measurable impact.
Once again, WEAR is bringing global brand owners, retailers, academics, manufacturers, NGO’s, innovators, and policymakers together, to accelerate our collective efforts toward progress and a more conscious fashion future.
The seminar has the purpose of developing a deeper understanding of wardrobe research, and the new understandings this research area can bring in terms of methodologies, policy-making, historical research on clothing, and of education.
Programme:
2-2.15: What is Wardrobe Research and what kinds of futures does it suggest? by PL, Professor, PhD Ingun Grimstad Klepp from OsloMet/SIFO. 2.15-2.30: Preliminary insights of Wardrobe Research and occasions by Associate Professor, PhD Irene Maldini from Lusófona University in Lisbon, PhD fellow Vilde Haugrønning from OsloMet/SIFO and Fashion designer Lucrecia de León from Universidad de la República 2.30-4 Workshop: WHAT CAN WE LEARN FROM WARDROBE RESEARCH by Kate Fletcher, Professor, PhD and Else Skjold, Associate Professor, PhD – both at the Royal Danish Academy
Participants will be invited to take part in the following tracks:
wardrobes and politics/regulation
wardrobe methodology
historical aspects of wardrobe research
wardrobe methods in education
4-4.45: Presentation and discussion of reflections, ideas, visions etc.
The seminar will take place at the Royal Danish Academy, Philip de Langes Allé 10, 1435 Copenhagen K in Building 53, Auditorium 6 on Friday the 30th of September 2022 at 2-5pm.
Online participation is possible but registration is necessary.
Please rsvp before the 26th of September to nbr@kglakademi.dk
Running in tandem with the conference will be a market hall offering yarns, knitted accessories, knitting kits, hand-dyed yarns, and knitting sundries.
All are welcome!
Ingun, Tone and Hanne will be speaking on Day 1:
14.15 – 15.30 Panel 3: Wool, Landscape and Sustainability
100% Wool – PLEED’s Campaign for the Reappraisal of Local Wool (Gieneke Arnolli and Johanna Van Benthem, Pleed)
Knitting a New Future: Patterns and design embracing nature, indigenous breeds and artisanal processed yarns (Tone Skårdal Tobiasson – Journalist and Author; Ingun Grimstad Klepp – Oslo Metropolitan University; and Hanne Torjusen)
‘Irish wool’s too hard’?: The influence of place-based knitting cultures on sheep rearing and wool production in Ireland and Shetland (Siun Carden, Research Fellow, University of the Highlands and Islands)
