Platform Used: participants will connect on Teams (Mural platform will be shown by the tutor during the workshop).
LECTURER: Prof. Andrea Cammarosano
This workshop offers an immersion in the creative process as a space of exchange between seemingly opposite worlds: craft and industry, individual experimentation and collective work, manual skills and innovation in materials. Through the presentation of a series of projects developed in collaboration between NABA and textile industry partners, the workshop explores how these boundaries can become points of connection between different individuals and systems.
The works presented are the result of a dialogue between fashion students, each with his or her own personality and skills, and textile companies-also characterized by specific spaces and tools and people rich in talent. In this context, process knowledge becomes an opportunity to experiment with new languages and modes of ideation. At the same time, craft techniques, often associated with traditional and manual knowledge, are reinterpreted in a contemporary key, thanks to the contamination with innovative materials and advanced technologies.
During the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to see up close a number of projects created through this approach, and to discuss them together with the mentor who supervised them, understanding how collaboration between different fields can expand the expressive possibilities of design. The goal is not only to present finished products, but to recount the paths, experiments and challenges faced along the way.
The future of fashion passes through the ability to work in multidisciplinary teams, where technical skills are intertwined with creative freedom. Integrating industrial knowledge and artisanal sensibility does not mean homogenizing the process, but enhancing it, allowing designers to develop a personal language without losing sight of the reality of production. This combination of individual creativity, in-depth process knowledge and collaborative skills is one of the most stimulating challenges for fashion schools today, a model that prepares new generations to approach the industry with an innovative and conscious vision.