Wed 14 May
|London
OC.M at Kairos: Reclaiming our Clothing Culture
A participatory event at Kairos, London, co-hosted by OurCommon.Market. We’ll hear a series of short provocations from experts on the fashion commons before co-creating responses.
Time & Location
14 May 2025, 18:30 – 21:30 BST
London, 84 Tottenham Ct Rd, London W1T 4TG, UK
About the event
Clothing culture has been hijacked by the growth imperative. The industrial fashion system is creating insupportable amounts of waste and pollution whilst failing to provide for human needs. The industry contributes ten percent of global carbon emissions, with this on track to grow 40% by 2030 (from 2022). This growth is enabled by fossil fuel by-products, with 67% of fibres made from cheap synthetics.
There are alternatives. We can reclaim our clothing cultures. Commons-based clothing models, in which communities steward their collective wealth, are overwhelmingly sustainable and sufficient, meaningful and culturally enriching.
As part of our year-long series on the Commons at Kairos, we’re coming together to co-create a vision for how to revive our clothing systems.
In this participatory event - co-hosted by OurCommon.Market - we’ll hear a series of short provocations from experts on the fashion commons, including anthropologist and activist Sandra Niessen, founding member of Fashion Act…