Dianjen Lin: 'POST-CARBON FASHION: REGENERATIVE SUSTAINABILITY ACTIVISM'

Описание: Talk given by Dianjen Lin at the Advaya event: Toxic Threads: The Dark Side of Fashion

Talk Description:
Post-Carbon Fashion is the winning project of Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion in 2017, it advocates a new understanding and approach to sustainability — Regenerative Sustainability Activism, which entails a proactive environmental engagement instead of passive mitigation or offset from an industrial entry point. One great example would be creating a textile that has pollution-purifying or photosynthetic properties. Based on this philosophy, Dian-Jen Lin embarked on her research of creating a post-carbon-emission material that can absorb the excess CO2 in the atmosphere while generating oxygen. Dian-Jen Lin will also share her freelance experiences with The Sustainable Angle and how the future of fashion can prosper based on disruptive yet critical design methodologies and genre-bending collaborations.


About the Speaker:
Dian-Jen Lin, The Sustainable Angle & Post Carbon Fashion
WINNER OF THE AWARD FOR INNOVATION IN FASHION & SUSTAINABILITY
Dian-Jen Lin is an interdisciplinary designer with the academic rigour of a researcher, the analytical rationality of a scientist and the aesthetic sensitivity of an artist. With over 6 years of professional experience, she has worked across costume/fashion design, graphic design, filmmaking, photography, contemporary art and silver metalwork. In addition, she has participated in numerous short courses of multifaceted natures to acquire a broad skill set with unconventional intelligence and aptitude for creative communication and innovative thinking.

As a graduate of one of the best fashion sustainability course — MA Fashion Futures from London College of Fashion, she is also the winner of Kering Award for Sustainable Fashion in 2017. She believes in harnessing the power of fashion to facilitate systematic paradigm shifts. After her studies, she continues to pursue the research in developing carbon positive materials with the Natural History Museum and the impact of design on consumer daily commodities with the Francis Crick Institue. “Design should always be drenched in sustainability and dignity” is the philosophy that has been pushing her trajectory towards ameliorating the status quo by proactive engagement and interdisciplinary collaboration.


Event Description:
The fashion industry has a devastating environmental and social impact on our planet. Pollution, unethical labour practices, deforestation, hydrocide, climate change, and ever-increasing waste generation has been intensified by the phenomenon of fast fashion. While it is crucial that fashion producers transform their business models given the industry’s strong growth trajectory, we, the consumers, hold immense power in our ability to vote with our pounds and demand ethical, just and environmentally-friendly clothing. The apparel sector has a pivotal role to play in the transition to a low-carbon economy and we must start challenging the status quo of unsustainable fashion and take meaningful steps towards a sustainable and ethical system.