FASHION RELOADED #3: Open Spectra for Intervention

Systems theorist Donella Meadows developed a list of leverage points of where to intervene in systems:

9.  Numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).

8.  Material stocks and flows.

7.  Regulating negative feedback loops.

6.  Driving positive feedback loops.

5.  Information flows.

4.  The rules of the system (incentives, punishment, constraints).

3.  The power of self-organization.

2.  The goals of the system.

1.  The mindset or paradigm out of which the goals, rules, feedback structure arise.

Sustainability has so far primarily been discussed at the top levels, the simple material product levels. Eco-cotton, dyes, and ethical manufacturing. We need to move further into the system, experiment with more levels, with a multiplicity of perspectives, skills and positions.

FASHION RELOADED #3: Open Spectra for Intervention

Systems theorist Donella Meadows developed a list of leverage points of where to intervene in systems:

9.  Numbers (subsidies, taxes, standards).

8.  Material stocks and flows.

7.  Regulating negative feedback loops.

6.  Driving positive feedback loops.

5.  Information flows.

4.  The rules of the system (incentives, punishment, constraints).

3.  The power of self-organization.

2.  The goals of the system.

1.  The mindset or paradigm out of which the goals, rules, feedback structure arise.

Sustainability has so far primarily been discussed at the top levels, the simple material product levels. Eco-cotton, dyes, and ethical manufacturing. We need to move further into the system, experiment with more levels, with a multiplicity of perspectives, skills and positions.

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FASHION RELOADED #3 Open Swap, Open Skills, Open Branding. Swap, hack and restyle your fashion brand in our crowdsourcing laboratory.

The swap, make and restyle fashion event FASHION RELOADED presents Open Branding, an exploration how to crowdsource a fashion brand. Located at the public area of green fashion event THEKEY.TO at Postbahnhof, FASHION RELOADED offers workshops and installations to swap, upcycle and restyle your fashion brand.

Initiated by two Swedish designers, open source designer Cecilia Palmer and haute couture heretic and researcher Dr. Otto von Bush, the event calls consumers and designers to reclaim their fashion. Cecilia Palmer: "The internet allows us to co-create the world around us, and we want to explore the possibilities of crowdsourcing the creation of a fashion brand."

Dr. Otto von Bush, known for his fashion hacking projects: "There are other ways of organising the fashion system. The question is: ‘How can we harvest more love, rather than just trying to sell more stuff? That's what we research here.'"

8-10 July 2010, 11-18h. Supershop @ THEKEY.TO www.fashionreloaded.org