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)
Online Grower & Herder Conference – 07-09 September 2022
This year the Wool Connect Conference by the Schneider Group turns into the Natural Fibre Connect Conference.
The conference includes 3 live days filled with expert speakers, recorded talks, and roundtable discussions aimed at tackling the common challenges of the alpaca, cashmere, mohair and wool industries. With each talk and panel, we will aim to highlight the perspective of growers and herders around the world.
Ingun and Tone will speak at this event.
PROGRAM
Wednesday, 7 September 2022 7:00-10:00 UTC & 14:00-17:00 UTC
Welcome to Day 1:Emerging Trends
TALKS: Shifting times
The world seems in constant crisis mode as we receive news about the war in Ukraine, high-energy prices, inflation, the ongoing pandemic, supply chain issues and climate change. In this session, we get an overview of how current events are shaping the industry.
In this panel, we get an update from various experts concerning Life Cycle Assessment and the European Union’s Product Environmental Footprint. In particular, we explore the small successes natural fibres have achieved in the fight for data-driven carbon accounting versus synthetic textiles led greenwashing.
TALKS: The Opportunities of Web 3.0 for the Textile Industry
In this session, we dive into the future of the metaverse, web.3.0 and blockchain technology. We find out how the natural fibre industry can benefit from emerging tech to stay relevant and improve sustainability.
Roundtables open
Thursday, 8 September 2022 7:00-10:00 UTC & 14:00-17:00 UTC
Welcome to Day 2: Challenges
TALKS: The Realities of Animal Welfare – The Challenges Growers and Herders Face
For centuries, growers and herders have had a close, caring and dependent relationship with their animals and nature, often embedded in traditional knowledge. In this session, we dive deep into the expectations on animal welfare, how distinct guidelines may not always be practical and why animals are still well taken care of.
TALKS: Putting Social Welfare on the Agenda – Recognising Natural Fibres as the Engine of Rural Economies
In this panel, we get an update from various experts concerning Life Cycle Assessment and the European Union’s Product Environmental Footprint. In particular, we explore the small successes natural fibres have achieved in the fight for data-driven carbon accounting versus synthetic textiles led greenwashing.
How to Unlock Regenerative Agriculture for Arid Regions
In this session, we dive into the future of the metaverse, web.3.0 and blockchain technology. We find out how the natural fibre industry can benefit from emerging tech to stay relevant and improve sustainability.Regenerative Agriculture continues to be of high interest to the fashion textile supply chain. However, the devil sits in the details, as not all regenerative practices are the right fit for all regions. In this session, panelists will discuss what options arid regions have and how we can create a common language and definitions to progress and benefit together.
Roundtables open
Friday, 9 September 2022 7:00-10:00 UTC & 14:00-17:00 UTC
Welcome to Day 3: Innovations
TALK: How Traceability is Reshaping the Industry
This session explores how transparency is transforming business through the use of technology, directly connecting all actors of the supply chain and simplifying certifications.
PANEL: How Green Finance can Support Growers
If the future is more green, finance will be too. This session looks at how the finance sector is reacting to climate change by allocating relevant funds to build a sustainable future. The panellists of this session will share how they are rethinking finance and what green investment opportunities lie ahead for growers and herders.
TALK: Hearing Directly from Growers & Herders
Hear a recap of the in-person grower and herder meetings that have taken place this week and what growers had to say about the main talks of this conference. What are the main challenges they are facing, how do they view market trends and what innovations are taking place at grower level. Each fibre will have a closing message of what we want to achieve in the future by taking action.
Hybrid event, 8th June 2022, 17:30-19:30 CET Online and at Sentralen, Oslo
How can we bring the local alternatives to the forefront of the sustainability debate and in policy?
We have important decisions ahead to ensure a just transition to more sustainable ways of living. The new book “Local, slow and sustainable fashion: wool as a fabric for change” from the clothing research group at Consumption Research Norway SIFO, uses “wool as a lens through which to see important aspects of the contemporary world: corporate capitalism, consumerism, standardisation and their opposites: localised crafts and practices, quality of life, sustainability” (Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen).
The clothing research group’s (world-renowned) wool and clothing research sits within the institute’s important research areas of local consumption and sustainability.
17:30: Welcome by Eivind Jacobsen, Institute Director at SIFO
17:35: The editors, Prof. Ingun Grimstad Klepp and Tone Skårdal Tobiasson introduce the book and the authors
17:40: Perspectives from authors and readers of the book, led by the editors:
Prof. Kate Fletcher, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, UK Rebecca Burgess, M.Ed.,Executive Director of Fibershed, California Gunnar Vittersø, Senior researcher at SIFO and the Amazing Grazing Project Dr. Lorrie Miller, University of British Colombia, Canada Elisabeth Stray Pedersen, Designer and owner, ESP Maria Ehrnström-Fuentes, Associate Professor, Hanken School of Economics, Finland Dr. Tone Smith, Member of Advisory board, Rethinking Economics Norway; Editor, Degrowth Norway Gisle Mariani Mardal, Head of development, Norwegian Fashion & Textile Agenda, Oslo, Norway
18:55- 19:30: Streaming ends – in-person discussions and mingling
2nd March 2022, 9.00-16.00 CET, Pilestredet 46 – Clara Holsts hus, Athene 1&2, OsloMet
The CHANGE research project invites you to a full-day seminary about´wardrobe studies´ as a research method, and how it can be used to solve the challenges of the current clothing consumption and the fashion industry. There will be talks by Kate Fletcher, Else Skjold, Ingun Grimstad Klepp and other researcher from the CHANGE project. The seminary will be in English and is open to students, researchers, designers and other people working in the field. Sign-up by e-mail by sending us a few words about why this is relevant to you.
Programme:
9:30: Arrival + check-in 9:30-10: Presentations of the CHANGE research project, its aims and scope by Ingun G. Klepp 10-12: The Wardrobe Gaze – workshop facilitated by Kate Fletcher and Else Skjold 12-13: Lunch 13-14:15: The Wardrobe Method – talks by CHANGE researchers 13:35-14:15: Q&A with participants and the CHANGE team 14:15-14:30: Future Scenarios; How can wardrobe research create change? 15:30-16: Round-up and plenary discussion
