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Cittadellarte is an art and creativity laboratory founded in 1998 by the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto in a disused textile mill by the river Cervo in Biella, Italy. Cittadellarte offers a study program for art and design for sustainability. It is also involved in the European funded project STARTS4Water.  www.cittadellarte.it Read more...

The Social Fashion Factory (SOFFA) is a cooperative of Fashion Designers providing work integration to victims of trafficking & refugees producing from sustainable materials. SOFFA is a production studio that offers B2B manufacturing services to designers and brands, targeting the social inclusion and empowerment of women victims of trafficking and refugees, using zero waste processes and circular fashion principles with Read more...

WeMake from 2014 is an innovative company based in Milan that provides a series of services and training to the community of creative and businesses in the context of digital and traditional manufacturing and access to FabLab technologies. WeMake is a multifunctional urban factory with open access and memberships for the use of digital manufacturing tools with the aim of Read more...

Cultural place, workshop of manufacture, co-working area, creative workshops, place of residence, and much more, discover the madness l5 located in the heart of the Park of La Villette in its iconic red building! Villette Makers also offers a Fablab Space to create and develop new products.  www.villettemakerz.com Read more...

The Museo del Tessuto is the largest cultural centre in Italy dedicated to the promotion of historical and contemporary textile production and art. The Museum represents the historical memory and the cultural interface of the Prato district, which has been identified with textile production since the Middle Ages. Today the district boasts over 7,000 companies operating in this sector. www.museodeltessuto.it Read more...

Waag is a Future Lab for technology and society. Waag reinforces critical reflection on technology, develops technological and social design skills, and encourages social innovation. Waag works in a trans-disciplinary team of designers, artists and scientists, utilising public research methods in the realms of technology and society. This is how Waag empowers as many people as possible to design an Read more...

The Centre offers quality assured, flexible training at all levels from pre-entry traineeships to foundation degree equivalent programmes. The Centre is a recognised BS EN ISO 9001: 2008 organisation, holds the ‘Matrix’ standard for Information, Advance and Guidance (IAG) and has secured the Creative Skillset Industry Tick for industry relevant training and skills provision. The Centre operates as a Group Read more...

Sartoria Sociale produces sustainable clothing and accessory in Palermo. It integrates a critical shop of used and vintage garments and textile laboratory based on recycling, where people from different social, ethnic and professional backgrounds work together. Sartoria Sociale is a multidimensional company within the Al Revès Cooperative, which since 2012 promotes the craft knowledge and the professional inclusion of people Read more...

REDU was launched in April 2015 as a pioneering project in Iași, Romania aiming at addressing the unsustainable path of the clothing and textile industry and at providing alternatives. The multidimensional space includes a collection centre that collected over 5 tons of textiles waste, a workshop for creating new products out of it as well as for reconditioning and repairing Read more...

Lottozero is an international center for textile design, art and culture. It operates both as a consultancy studio and as a creative hub, divided into a gallery/exhibition area, a shared studio space/coworking and an open fab-lab for textile production, experimentation and research. The work done by the CONSULTANCY STUDIO is aimed at designers, artists, brands and institutions, providing personalized services Read more...