WEAR Sustain Open Call 2 Launch Event for Central and Eastern Europe
Time & Location
16 Nov 2017, 16:00 – 21:00
Athina, B&M Theocharakis Foundation for the Fine Arts and Music, 9, Vas. Sofias Avenue & 1, Merlin Str., Athens, Greece
About the event
The WEAR consortium, in cooperation with the local Greek partners (Greek Hub):
- The Heritage and Museums
- H&M Organization
- Hellenic Clothing Industry Association
- Textiles and Clothing Design Lab - HELGRAMED
- Hellenic Union of Graphic Arts and Media Technology Engineers
organised the WEAR Sustain Open Call 2 Launch Event for Central and Eastern Europe. WEAR Sustain seeks artists, designers, and creative people of all forms to work with technologists to develop critical approaches to design ethical, sustainable, environmental, and aesthetic wearable or smart/e-textile projects. The event aimed to present the call to engineers, technologists, and designers and to help with networking, so new teams could be formed, and they could propose concrete projects within the framework of the second WEAR Sustain call.
Agenda & Programme
16.00-16.30 Registration
16.30-16.40 Welcome on behalf of the Greek organizing team (Greek hub); Lila de Chaves, H&M Organization
16.40-17.00 Short presentations of the hub members CreativeWear and TCBL, Dr. Takis Lybereas, Hellenic Clothing Industry Association; Dr. Anastasios E. Politis, HELGRAMED
17.00-17.30 Keynote presentation, Sarotis: Sensing the future cities; Mrs Maria Paneta, Master of Architecture Bartlett UCL, Architect ARB
17.30-18.00 Introduction to WEAR-Sustain project and Presentation on WEAR Open Call 2; Dr. Stavri Nikolov, Digital Spaces Living Lab
18.00-19.00
Smart Textiles in Fashion: Challenges and opportunities for a circular economy; Mr. Evangelos Louris, President of the Hellenic Textile Engineers Association, Lecturer in Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Textile Engineering (Piraeus, Greece) Dr. Georgios Priniotakis, Associate Professor, Piraeus University of Applied Sciences, Faculty of Engineering, Dept. of Textile Engineering (Piraeus, Greece)
Social Inclusion in Sustainable Fashion: The Case of SOFFA; Dr Fiori A Zafeiropoulou, Founder SOFFA, Refergon & Zita Sneakers CC Fashion Revolution Greece
Making Apparels Smart; Mr Demetres Stordopoulos, Founder and CEO, Tribe Wearables Greece
The Future of Mental Health in a World of Artificial Sentience; Mr George Eleftheriou, CEO & co-founder of Feel: World's first Emotion Sensor and Mental Health Advisor Greece
19.00-20.00 Discussion, Q&A Panel of WEAR experts and the Greek Hub
20.00-21.00 Reception
