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Year: 2017

23 teams selected for WEAR Sustain funding

WEAR Sustain is absolutely delighted to announce that 23 winning teams have been selected to each receive up to €50,000 in funding. Congratulations to the talented winning teams! Our first cohort of Awardees will go on develop their proposed collaborative prototypes, which address our Open…

Jul 04, 2017

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Ethics & Sustainability Resources

WEAR Sustain has collated an excellent resource of presentations and videos on the subjects of collaboration, sustainability and ethics, kindly supplied by our event co-organisers and the speakers who participated in our first Open Call events this April and May. We have collated…

Jul 03, 2017

Open Call Share

Industry News Round Up – June 2017

If you are thinking about applying for the second WEAR Sustain Open Call – taking place in autumn – there are a lot of interesting developments being announced at the moment that might inspire your proposal. Don’t forget to follow us on Twitter and…

Jun 30, 2017

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Video of Creative Ring events supporting WEAR Sustain Open Call

Jun 05, 2017

Events Sustain

WEAR Sustain London Launch

In May 2017 WEAR Sustain held a launch event for the first Open Call, and also held a symposium on the theme of sustainability in wearables, smart textiles and e-textiles. The event attracted around 50 participants and featured talks by Anne Prahl PHd, who…

Jun 05, 2017

Events Open Call WEAR

WEAR Sustain Open Call 1 – Information events across Europe (April – May 2017)

WEAR Sustain’s events schedule across Europe for the First Open Call for collaborative innovation took place from April to May 2017. This project, funded by the EC Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation ICT-36 programme, seeks co-design project applications from artists, designers, technologists and engineers with prototyping…

May 31, 2017

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‘Creating Together Will Produce A Better Product’

This article was originally published on the website of Creative Ring. On May 16th, Ministry of Makers (the Design Platform of Ghent and East Flanders) organized a Pre-Submission Event for those applying to the EU WEAR Sustain Open Call, in Gent (Belgium). Next to detailed…

May 31, 2017

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“Become A Successful Designer: Disagree With The World”

This article was originally posted on the Creative Ring website. One of the ways to become a successful designer, is to disagree with the world. Fashion-tech designer Anouk Wipprecht described how fashion was analog when she started designing. She disagreed. After her successful Spider Dress,…

May 31, 2017

Events Sustain

Wear Sustain Support Event Brussels

This article was originally published on the Creative Ring website. Brussels Creative, the Creative Ring, MAD, and DataScouts organized a WEAR Sustain Support Event on May 17, in Brussels (Belgium). At the event, the WEAR Sustain consortium explained more about the Open Call. Wearables…

May 31, 2017

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Fashion Tech by Anouk Wipprecht – Interview in E52.

Anouk Wipprecht is a Fashion-Tech Designer and Innovator working in the emerging field of “FashionTech” and an ambassador for WEAR Sustain. Anouk was recently interviewed in the magazine E52. In the article Anouk goes into detail about the issues around developing wearable technology. …

May 31, 2017

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