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This World 131 Enactment was a hands-on workshop that gave participants experience of a world in which clothes are embellished with mantras and feelings.
It was hosted by Lauren Callis, Executive Director at Curiosity Studio, a creative learning studio in Minneapolis, Minnesota. The participants were all members of the local community.
The text guiding this Enactment:
World 27 is a world where people personalise and embellish their clothing with mantras, ideas, thoughts, and feelings enabling them to reach out, to share with others, and to invite dialogue and a change and exchange of views.
In 2021 a gentle groundswell of activism emerged following a major research study into the impact of social media on self-esteem and self-confidence. A disparate group of UK makers began to use their clothes to openly communicate and connect directly with others, offering mentoring, encouragement, advice whilst modelling their vulnerability.
Curiosity Studio invited members of their local community to a workshop where they were introduced to chain stitching and screen printing as two ways to embellish existing garments as a means of self-expression. While using these new skills participants talked about the work they were doing and the issues of fashion and sustainability raised by the Fashion Fictions project.
At the end of the workshop participants took away their newly embellished garments and a sense that the barriers to participation in sustainable fashion practices were not as great as they might previously have imagined.
This case study video with the facilitator, Lauren, provides an insight into the experience and impacts of the workshop:
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This Enactment was devised by Lauren Callis, based on a World written by another Fashion Fictions contributor, using a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence which allows others to share and adapt the work in any medium and for any purpose, providing that they credit the authors and share their material using the same Creative Commons licence.
Thanks to Gabi Estrada for workshop support and all who participated in the workshop.
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