RÆBURN City Wide Celebration

The Future of Fashion: Imagining The Possibilities, is an exhibition as part of 'Regenerative By Design', The Lab E20's latest cultural and educational programme. The Lab E20 is London's new flagship cultural hub for the circular economy and regenerative design. Designed and Produced by Christopher Raeburn, Supported by Get Living.

In partnership with the Centre for Sustainable Fashion London College of Fashion-UAL, The Lab E20 will also host the Karighor Archive as part of our LFW CityWide activation. 

Karighor Archive is a digital tool currently being developed in collaboration with Bangladeshi textile makers to document their heritage craft processes and digitally display their work. The platform will facilitate co-design and co-creation between the highly skilled textile artisans of Bangladesh and international artists, designers, and creatives. Based on the principle ‘Nothing about Us Without Us’, Dhaka-based textile artisans were invited to discuss their vision of future-craft through workshops led by Design Studio Paraa (Dhaka) and Design Studio Peut-Porter (London). A first codesign challenge between Bangladeshi Master Weavers and design students from the MA Fashion Futures (LCF) and the MA Textile Design (CCW) program acts as an exploration into how digital tools such as the Karighor Archive could shape and define the future of craft by honouring the skills, knowledge, creativity and cultural setting of all individuals involved in the design, production and development of a textile. Eliminating hierarchies between design and production, the project aims to encourage an exchange of practice and knowledge, open source working methods, and collective forms of organising and producing fashion. 

On display at The Lab E20, you will find textile samples co-created by London Design Students and Dhaka-based Textile Artisans in a series of co-creation workshops. The screening of a short documentary will further give insight into the making processes and conversations between the participants.

In partnership with the Grimshaw Foundation and The Stratford School, Year 10 students have developed an architectural installation called "The Recycled Room" using off-cuts from RAEBURN deadstock materials. As part of The Lab E20's wider mission to tackle climate action, designing out waste and regenerative design across fashion and the built environment, this installation is a thoughtful and immersive centrepiece of The Lab E20's ongoing programme: Tuesday 19th September 12-5pm

Location: Raeburn, The Lab E20, 3-4 East Park Walk, East Village, Stratford, E20 1JB

Date: Saturday 16th September and Tuesday 19th September

Time: Saturday 12pm - 7pm | Tuesday 12pm - 5pm