Events

Last week Friederike von Wedel-Parlow was invited by the Goethe Institut Ghana to their monthly conversational series Blind Data. Together with Yvette Tetteh they discussed the impacts of fast fashion and sustainability.

Am 20.11.2021 nahm Friederike von Wedel-Parlow an der Klimaschutz-Podiumsdiskussion des kfd in Münster teil, um das Thema Nachhaltigkeit in der Mode mit Branchenexperten vielschichtig zu beleuchten.

Prof. Friederike von Wedel-Parlow wurde dazu eingeladen auf dem Strike A Pose Festival in Düsseldorf über die Demokratisierung der Mode und The New Normal zu sprechen.

Together with studio MM04 and Sqetch, Beneficial Design Institute co-organized the first edition of 202030 - The Berlin Fashion Summit - a new interdisciplinary platform where avant-garde creatives, critical grassroots protagonists and industry players explore collective approaches to future fashion systems.

It is the Dutch Design Week and we are glad to be represented with our project 'OceanWear' within the Worth Partnership Project.

Our Director Friederike von Wedel-Parlow participated as a guest speaker in the event "ALL GOOD(S) - New Materials in Architecture, Design and Fashion for a Future Circular Economy" at Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory and spoke about the need to promote holistic and sustainable product design and make its value tangible.

On September 10, 2020 Prof. Friederike von Wedel-Parlow will hold a workshop on 'POSITIVE IMPACT - QUALITY AND INNOVATION IN FASHION' as part of the Fashion Council Germany webinar series.

The Bundespreis Ecodesign was awarded for the eighth time by the Federal Environment Ministry and the Federal Environment Agency (UBA). Friederike von Wedel-Parlow was once again invited as a member of an interdisciplinary jury to award twelve talents for their particularly innovative, environmentally sound and future-oriented work.

Together with our friends from Fraunhofer IZM, we designed and conducted a workshop at this year's WEAR IT INNOVATION SUMMIT with the title WORLD CAFÉ: CIRCULAR PRODUCT DESIGN FOR WEARABLES.

As part of the Fashion Revolution Week, Friederike von Wedel-Parlow was invited to a panel talk in Zurich this year. The topic of the discussion: "Utopia and transformation - the future of the fashion industry".