Textile Citizens Exhibition

We live in a world where linear business models based on the hyper production, consumption and wastage of textile products has established wealth for the few but driven exploitation, inequality and pollution for the many.

Those who seek to justify and perpetuate this model do so by saying that it exists at the demand of The Consumer. People – you and I – have been rebranded as Consumers, with a very clearly defined role in this system: Buy more stuff.

But what if we want to opt-out of this system? As a consumer, our choices to affect change are binary: To buy, or not to buy?

We need a completely different approach if we are to change the dominant business model and it starts by reimagining ourselves not as textile consumers, but as Textile Citizens.

This event is part of the WOVEN community programme.