FLAX LIFE CYCLE
- From Seed to Textile
Project Lead
Duration
13 March 2024–27 January 2025
Keywords
Textile Technology, Sustainable Agriculture, Renewable Resources, Textilproduktion, Textile Selbstversorgung, Flachs, Leinen, Fasergewinnung, Spinnen, Weben
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In the spirit of responsible, sustainable development and as an attempt at textile self-sufficiency, students at the University of Applied Arts Vienna are following the entire journey of the flax fibre plant from seed to textile over the course of a year. Historical craft techniques are taught alongside contemporary artistic and design approaches. A key feature of the project is its inter- and transdisciplinary orientation, which links aspects of art, design, crafts, materials research, and sustainability. This approach allows flax to be considered not only as a raw material but also as a cultural and ecological system. Students learn to embed design decisions in a broader context of resources, production methods, and consumption, and to reflect on environmentally friendly and sustainable production and processing methods, as well as to think ahead. Didactically, the project combines practice-based learning, artistic research, and collaborative working methods. Transdisciplinary teaching and learning settings bring together practitioners from art, crafts, and agriculture, creating spaces for encounters, knowledge acquisition, and exchange. Artistic and research-oriented processes are combined with creative, critical and reflective thinking about ecological, social, political, cultural and cultural-historical dimensions of textile production.
Status
Completed
Activity List
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- Karin Altmann - Director/Administrator
- Universität für Angewandte Kunst Wien
- Christiane Seufferlein
- Tristan Toé
- Studierende
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