FTF events

Webinaari: Hiilineutraali tekstiiliteollisuus - tulevaisuutta vai utopiaa?

suomeksi / in Finnish

Milloin? 20. toukokuuta 2020, 13:00 - 15:00
Missä? Zoom

Webinaarin järjestävät strategisen tutkimuksen neuvoston rahoittamat hankkeet BioColour – Väripaletti biopohjaisille väriaineille ja pigmenteille sekä FINIX – Kestävät tekstiilisysteemit.

Tekstiiliteollisuus on yksi maailman saastuttavimpia teollisuudenaloja ja muotiteollisuus tuottaa yksin kymmenesosan maailman hiilidioksidipäästöistä. Mitä vaikutuksia tekstiilien tuotannon ja elinkaaren eri vaiheilla on niiden hiilijalanjälkeen ja minkälaisilla ratkaisuilla hiilidioksidipäästöjä voisi pienentää? Onko tekstiiliteollisuuden hiilineutraalimpi tulevaisuus mahdollinen ja mitä muutoksia se vaatii toteutuakseen? Tervetuloa kuulemaan asiantuntijoiden puheenvuoroja ja keskustelemaan aiheesta!

Tilaisuuden ohjelma

Vaatteen hiilijalanjälki ja sen  pienentäminen designin avulla, Kirsi Niinimäki, Aalto-yliopisto, FINIX & BioColour
Tekstiilien kierron edistäminen, Helena Dahlbo, Syke, FINIX 
Värjäysteollisuuden ympäristövaikutukset, Riikka Räisänen, Helsingin yliopisto, BioColour
Materiaalitehokkaasti oljesta tekstiilikuituja Fortumin Bio2X -hankkeessa, Heli Antila, Fortum
Värikasvituotannon mahdollisuudet hiilen sitomisessa, Marjo Keskitalo, Luke, BioColour
Suomalaisen tekstiilialan hiilijalanjälki, Satumaija Mäki, Suomen Tekstiili ja Muoti ry

Webinaari järjestetään Zoom-verkkoalustalla. Saat osallistumislinkin sähköpostiisi ilmoittautumalla tästä: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/105350/lomake.html

Tilaisuus on avoin ja maksuton eikä osallistujamäärää ole rajoitettu.Tilaisuuden tallenne tulee jälkikäteen nähtäväksi myös BioColour- ja FINIX-hankkeiden Youtube-kanaville.

Avajaisseminaari: FINIX – kestävät tekstiilisysteemit

suomeksi / in Finnish

Milloin? 23. maaliskuuta 2020, 13:00 - 15:15
Missä? YouTube / Facebook

FINIXin taustalla on tarve muuttaa globaali resursseja tuhlaava tekstiilijärjestelmä kestävän kehityksen periaatteiden mukaiseksi ja halu yhdistää suomalainen osaaminen ja yritykset myös perinteisen tekstiilialan ulkopuolelta ratkaisemaan tätä haastetta. Hanke alkoi syksyllä 2019, ja saimme heti runsaasti tiedusteluja yhteistyömahdollisuuksista. Osana FINIXiä tullaan järjestämään sekä avoimia työpajoja tutkimusteemojen ympärillä että tekemään räätälöityjä yhteistyöhankkeita. Ensimmäisen seminaarin tavoite on luoda pohja muotoutuvalle ekosysteemille ja yhteistyölle esittelemällä keskeiset tutkimusteemat ja keskustelemalla yritysten haasteista kiertotalouteen siirtymisessä.

Tilaisuuden ohjelma

13:00 FINIX revolution! Minna Halme
13:10 Tulevaisuuden kestävä tekstiilisysteemi, Samuli Patala
13:30 Muoti kiertotaloudessa, Kirsi Niinimäki
14:00 Man-made cellulose fibres in the future, Herbert Sixta (in English)
14:30 Tekstiilien jäljitettävyys ja tunnistaminen, Hannu Tanner
15:00 Loppusanat, Minna Halme

Pääset mukaan avaamalla YouTube-kanavan Finixrevolution: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC_ylvDzUXd00ogKhK-RJCkQ/

Seminaaria voi seurata myös Facebook Livessä: https://www.facebook.com/finixrevolution/

Lisätietoa projektista: https://finix.aalto.fi

Seminar: Law for the Circular Economy

When? December 9, 2019, 10:00 - 16:30
Where? University of Lapland, Yliopistonkatu 8, 96101 Rovaniemi

The Law for the Circular Economy seminar will revolve around the role of law in the circular economy, with particular emphasis on two important steps of the product’s life cycle, namely regulating the supply-chain and regulating repairing and sharing activities. These topics will be explored from the perspective of both policy and law. The academic discourse will be complemented by real-life company cases, where focus will be posed especially on the fashion industry. Doctoral Candidate Essi Karell from FTF will give a talk on Fashion Supply Chains and Circular Economy.

Full seminar programme and registration available at the official seminar website.

BioColour Open for All Kick-Off

When? November 11, 2019, 15:00-17:00
Where? University of Helsinki Think Corner, Think Lounge, 2nd floor, Yliopistonkatu 4

BioColour is a research project funded by Strategic Research Council for years 2019–2025 and it investigates biocolourants and their applications in textiles, coatings and packages. 

See a blog post of the BioColour Kick-Off here (in Finnish).

Research Café on Materials 

When? 11 October & 27 November 2018, 13:00 – 16:00
Where? Mordor / Otakaari 5

F/T Futures warmly welcomes you to the Research Café events that invite researchers from the different schools of Aalto University to share their latest insights and learn new perspectives related to materials research at Aalto.

The events are organized by Aalto University Research and Innovation Services and Materials Platform, with F/T Futures actively participating in the planning. In the first event Kirsi Niinimäki and Pirjo Kääriäinen will briefly introduce some insights into circular economy and multidisciplinary material research.

The purpose of these events is twofold: to introduce new perspectives through scholarly discussions; and to create possibilities for multidisciplinary encounters and for recognizing common research interests among the participants, potentially leading into new joint projects.

There will be two Research Café events this autumn: The first one serves as an introduction and opens the discussion that will be deepened in the latter event. The first event consists of two parts: First, researchers and research groups will introduce variety of perspectives into materials research that will then initiate the participants into discussion.

More information: emmi.pouta at aalto.fi & outi.hagg at aalto.fi

Open lecture by Anna-Mari Almila

The multiple dimensions of ‘comfort’ in dress: rethinking bodies, garments and environments

When? Monday, 19 March 2018, 12:00-13:00
Where? Aalto ARTS Arabia campus, Room 6088

Dr Anna-Mari Almila is Research Fellow in Sociology of Fashion at London College of Fashion, UAL. She writes in the fields of cultural, global and historical sociology, and her topics include the historical/political construction of urban spaces; the materiality of dressed bodies and their environments; fashion globalization; history of fashion studies; and gendered wine mediation and consumption. She is the author of Veiling in Fashion: Space and the Hijab in Minority Communities (2018 in press, I.B. Tauris), and the editor of The Routledge International Handbook to Veils and Veiling Practices (2017) and The Sage Handbook to Cultural Sociology (2016). Dr Almila is a visiting researcher in FTF Fashion/Textile Futures research group during March-May 2018 (Host Professor Niinimäki).

Lunch Talk by Heidi Härkönen 

Fashion Designs and Copyright

When? Wednesday, 1 November 2017, 12:00-13:00
Where? Aalto ARTS Arabia Campus, Room 6088

In this lunch seminar, Heidi Härkönen will talk about her ongoing PhD research project on fashion law. The specific topic of the seminar concerns fashion designs and copyright. In her talk Heidi Härkönen will ask, what are the limitations of a fashion designer’s creativity caused by copyright, when the designer’s creativity is interacting with the creativity of other fashion designers? She will also address the question of what would be the ideal level of intellectual property protection for fashion designs?

Heidi Härkönen is a PhD Candidate at University of Lapland and a visiting researcher at Aalto University. Her major is intellectual property law and in her PhD project she is concentrating on exclusive rights to fashion designs. Prior to her PhD studies, she has practiced law for three years. She also works as the president of the Finnish Fashion Law Association.

Exhibition: 10 000 years of design - Man, matter, metamorphosis

When? 12 October 2018 - 24 February 2019 
Where? The National Museum of Finland / Suomen Kansallismuseo

Innovations developed in research projects DWoC and Trash-2-Cash will be presented in a curated exhibition '10 000 years of design – Man, matter, metamorphosis'. The exhibition focuses on the unique development of Finnish material culture and design as a result of a specific dialogue between society and ecosystem.

More information about the exhibition here.

NODUS X FTF: Sustainable fashion + new business thinking

When? 31 August 2017, 16:00 – 18:00
Where? Design Museum, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki

Kirsi Niinimäki, leader of the F/T Futures research group, will give a talk at Design Museum together with Anniina Nurmi, sustainable fashion specialist. The talk is organized by the NODUS sustainable design research group from Aalto University.

More info: https://www.facebook.com/events/1203595236411568/

Seminar & Book launch: Bio-Circular-Collaborative

Latest information on biomaterials and textile material recycling

When? Tuesday, 19 September 2017, 15:00-18:00
Where? Designmuseum, Auditorium, Korkeavuorenkatu 23, Helsinki

First part of the seminar presents Trash-2-Cash, which is an EU funded research project aiming to create newly regenerated fibers from pre-consumer and post-consumer waste. It’s also pioneering a whole new way of developing materials. The second part of the seminar presents the publicationLost in the Wood(s). How could Finnish natural resource, renewable biomaterials, such as cellulose, replace oil-based resources? How could we create new business and service models for society through design and collaboration? This book presents inspiring cases and stories from researchers working with biomaterials. Through these cases they suggest how a more sustainable future could be achieved.

Agenda

1. Welcome words / Kirsi Niinimäki, Professor in Design, Team leader for Fashion/Textile FUTURES, Aalto University, School of Arts, Design and Architecture
2. Presenting T2C project / Emma Östmark, Director Sustainable Textile Fibres, RISE Research Institute of Sweden
3. Interdisciplinary collaboration for material innovation / Christian Tubito, Project Manager, Research & Innovation Material ConneXion Italy 
4. Waste-free future of fashion industry: The chemistry behind it / Michael Hummel, Staff Scientist, Aalto University School of Chemical Engineering
5. The need of improvements in textile sorting of garments for textile-to-textile recycling / Helena Wedin, Researcher, RISE Research Institutes of Sweden
6. Book launch: Lost in the Wood(s), The New Biomateriality in Finland / Edited by Pirjo Kääriäinen and Liisa Tervinen / Aalto ARTS Books

Visit also 'New Biomateriality Lab' in 'Enter and Encounter' exhibition in Designmuseum. New Biomateriality Lab in the Enter and Encounter exhibition presents new Finnish biomaterials, mainly based on wood. All materials have been invented and produced in multidisciplinary research projects in Aalto University.

Organizers: Aalto University, Professor Kirsi Niinimäki and Designer in Residence Pirjo Kääriäinen, Fashion/Textile FUTURES research group

Contact: pirjo.kaariainen(at)aalto.fi

Seminar: Sustainable Fashion in Circular Economy

When? 11 October 2017, 9:00-17:00
Where? Aalto University, Hämeentie 135C, Helsinki, Finland

The Aalto University organises a one-day interdisciplinary seminar aiming to open new views into sustainable fashion in the circular economy context. New perspectives will be provided, how to see circularity as a design and business asset based on systems thinking in the sustainable development context. Furthermore, existing business examples will be provided. International experts will provide the newest knowledge from design for circular economy and how to use this knowledge in the fashion and textile sector. The seminar will consist of presentations, a poster session, an exhibition and networking event.Welcome to participate and construct a network of researchers, designers, practitioners and PhD students from different disciplines around fashion in a circular economy.

Agenda

1. Professor Kirsi Niinimäki, Aalto University, Finland / Sustainable Fashion in a Circular Economy: a Need for Systemic Change
2. Professor Cosette Armstrong, Oklahoma State University, USA / Digital Collaborative Clothing Consumption and the Circular Economy: A Research Agenda
3. Professor Ulla Ræbild, Design School Kolding, Denmark / How to Design Garments for a Subscription Service?
4. Research Associate Sara Han, Manchester Fashion Institute, UK / Circular Economy Fashion Strategies
5. Chairman Rolf Heimann, Hessnatur Foundation, Germany: Sustainability as a Value Driver
6. Founder and Director Ruari Mahon, Loughlin Joseph, USA / Promoting Circular Economy Practices through Consumer Engagement
7. Fashion Designer Ina Budde, Design for Circularity, Germany / Design for Circularity – Product and System Innovation for a Circular Future of Fashion
8. Lecturer Claudia Henninger, University of Manchester, UK / Sharing is Caring… or so They Say – Exploring the Role of Ownership and Its Implications for Swapping in the Fashion Industry
9. CEO Ann Runnel, Reserve Resources / The Undiscovered Business Potential of Production Leftovers within Global Fashion Supply Chains: Creating a Digitally Enhanced Circular Economy

Registration by September 20, 2017.