The BEYOND FASHION SUMMIT, taking place on the 15th and 16th of November 2012 in the STATION Berlin, announces a series of collaborations and activities alongside it’s conference programme: a round table, workshops, business talks and the partnering event Summit of Newthinking.
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At the end of the first conference day, on Thursday the 15th of November 2012 between 17.30 and 18.30, there will be a publicly accessible discussion panel on the topic: “Hypernature, the future of fashion?”. Actual developments and trends concerning sustainability in the fashion industry are to be discussed by the panel participants. The central question: what is necessary to solve the paradox of the consumer product fashion and the necessary objective of a more sustainable fashion industry?
The speakers on the panel are: Safia Minney, founder of People Tree; Yvonne Zwick, referent for sustainable consume at the German council for sustainable development; Dr. Norbert Henzel, expert of textile ecology and textile consume at the Institute for Material Culture at the Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg; Dr. Mark Starmanns, researcher on social standards in the fashion industry at the University Zurich and founder of Netzwerk Faire Mode.
After the panel discussion there is a Get Together – together with the Summit of Newthinking. Be there!