Recycling Textile Technologies
A one-day workshop from 9am to 5pm, on June 14th 2010
To be held at the
Pearson North Lecture Theatre, University College
London
Waste is a valuable, yet often little understood,
resource that may be used to subvert and reconfigure moral, legal, social and
political boundaries in the pursuit of livelihoods and business success. Textile
recyclers have developed a range of socio-technological practises to enable
material transformations to take place that often remain invisible to those
studying modern economies. This one-day interdisciplinary workshop brings
together researchers working on textile recycling across disciplines and
sectors, including anthropologists, geographers, historians, designers, waste
consultants and consumer researchers. Through this exchange we hope to develop a
greater understanding of the underlying relationships between people and things,
raw materials and technologies, the emergence of entrepreneurs and innovators in
social networks, and their contextual variations. For further details, please
see the Call for papers.
Participants:
- Beverly Lemire, University of Alberta, Canada
- Olumide Abimbola, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Germany
- Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University, USA
- B. Lynne Milgram, Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada
- Julie Botticello, UCL, United Kingdom
- Ingun Grimstad Klepp, Tone Skardal Tobiasson, Charlotte Bik Bandlien and Kirsi Laitala, SIFO (NICE), Norway
- Nicholas Morley, Oakdene Hollins, United Kingdom
- Pammi Sinha and Kanchana Dissanayake, University of Manchester, United Kingdom
- Lucy Norris, UCL, United Kingdom
Organisers:
Lucy Norris and Julie Botticello, Dept
of Anthropology, UCL
Registration:
The registration
fee covers refreshments and lunch with vegetarian options.
Waged:
£25 and Unwaged: £18
Please
contact Julie Botticello on ucsajbo@ucl.ac.uk to reserve your place.
The deadline for registration is 7th of June 2010.
Programme:
9.40 -
10.00 Registration & Coffee (in the North Cloisters)
10.00 -
10.10 Welcome: Danny Miller; Introduction: Lucy Norris and Julie
Botticello
Session 1: Building networks and breaking
boundaries
Chair: Danny
Miller
10.10 - 10.40 Beverly
Lemire, Textile Networks and Textile Meanings: the European
Secondhand Trade in Historical Perspective, c. 1600-1850
10.40 -
11.10 Julie Botticello, Negotiating Status and
Value: Processing Rags for Global Export.
11.10 -
11.40 Lynne Milgram, Mobilizing Livelihood,
Centering Margins: Women and the Transnational Hong-Kong Philippine Used
Clothing Trade
11.40 - 12.00 Coffee Break (in the North Cloisters)
Chair: Nicky
Gregson
12.00 - 12.30 Karen Tranberg
Hansen, From Family Business to International Empire: Global
Networks in Secondhand Clothing Trading
12.30 -
1.00 Olumide Abimbola, Igbo Trade Networks and
Secondhand Clothing
1.00 - 1.15 Discussion
1.15 -
2.00 Lunch (in the North Cloisters)
Session
2: The return of recycling technologies
Chair:
Dinah Eastop
2.00 - 2.30 Ingun Grimstad
Klepp, Tone Skardal Tobiasson, Charlotte Bik Bandlien, Reinventing
Old Solutions t0 New Problems?
2.30 - 3.00 Nick
Morley, Pulp Fiction? Re-innovating Paper Manufacture from
Textiles
3.15 - 3.30 Coffee Break (in the North Cloisters)
Chair:
Susanne Küchler
3.30 - 4.00 Pammi
Sinha, Kanchana Dissanayake, Local
Knowledge and Skills in Remanufacturing Fashion
4.00 -
4.30 Lucy Norris, Remains or Resource?
Alternative perspectives on dirt and the success of used clothing
transformations in India.
4.30 - 5.00 Final
discussion
We are grateful to the Journal of Material Culture for their contribution to the
workshop. The event is taking place as part of the Waste of the
World programme funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC RES
000-23-0007).
Maps and
Directions:
Pearson North Lecture theatre is located in the Pearson
Building, off Gower Street, in the Northwest corner of the main quadrangle.
To reach the Pearson Building, the most convenient underground stations
are Warren Street (for Northern and Victoria lines) and Euston Square (for
Hammersmith and City, Circle and Metropolitan lines). The venue is also within
walking distance (5-10 minutes) of Goodge Street and Russell Square underground
stations, and Euston, King's Cross, and St Pancras underground and mainline
stations.
For a UCL Campus map:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/maps/
For an underground
map:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/gettingaround/1108.aspx
For
transport within London:
http://www.tfl.gov.uk/
For information on travelling
into London from various Airports:
http://www.visitlondon.com/ or http://www.ukguide.org/
