a very interesting article by HBR. "scaling deep", growing slowly and becoming deeply embedded in the local economy, rather than rapidly scaling up.
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The Carbon Farm Tour is an event organized by New York Textile Lab in collaboration with New York Textile Month. It invites designers to visit farms that are part of the Lab's carbon farm network, which focuses on regenerative farming practices aimed at sequestering carbon in the soil to help mitigate climate change. During the tour, participants learn about ecological farming methods, carbon farming practices, and how designers can directly invest in climate-beneficial fibers.
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2021 Carbon Farm Tour panel discussion.
Meris Butler / Borobabi, Dana Davis / Mara Hoffman Inc, Leah D’Ambrosio / Wol Hide, Abigail George-Erickson / Waste No More, Eileen Fisher, Jessica Corr / Plia, Jessica Schrieber / FABSCRAP
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Design and consulting company New York Textile Lab is helping move the textile industry away from extraction and waste, and towards circularity and regeneration.
Q&A with Laura Sansone Founder, New York Textile Lab
May 20, 2021
A discussion with The AIANY Custom Residential Architects Network (CRAN) focusing on sustainable sourcing of materials for residential interior furnishings, particularly addressing the carbon footprint of textiles.
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Fibershed is our affiliate, and this amazing book is a great resource for anyone who wants to know how we make regional textile production possible.
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Design and Nature: A Partnership. Edited by Kate Fletcher, Louise St. Pierre, Mathilda Tham, NY: Routeledge, 2019: 153
I collaborated on a chapter in this book with my colleague Timo Rissanen. The writing is about our teaching pedagogy in the Sustainable Systems course at Parsons School of Design in NYC .
The Way Of Rebellion Vol: 1. Edited by Kate Fletcher, 2018: 8-9
Corporate growth logic in the fashion and textile industry leads to environmental problems, lack of trust and the centralization of economic power. This writing discusses the potential to build deep value and trust into our clothing and textile production systems through distributed network technologies.
“The Spirit of Place”. New York Textile Month Issue 2 2017: 179-181
This article is a call to action for designers to build deep wealth in the textile products they create through regional sourcing and place based textile development.
Written by Sarah Margolis - Pineo
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Written by Amanda Coen
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In this interview Laura Sansone, an artist and professor at Parsons, discusses her passion for sustainability, particularly in textiles, and how it connects to community empowerment and local economies.
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