Time for (S)heroes
in fashion, costume design, and art installations for sustainable future, zero waste, digital processes and co-design.
Time for (S)heroes is a capacity building project for prospective fashion and costume designers with an impact for sustainability. We enable designers and artists to co-design digital and tangible fashion.
We promote sustainable design, art installations, drama pedagogy, co-design, and equal representation of people!
Designers and artists are the (S)heroes of the day to lead the green shift, advance sustainability, reduce material waste, and spread best practices for sustainable fashion and costume design.
The Project Framework
(S)hero rethought means reading hero narratives critically and reinterpreting them in the frameworks of fight against climate change.
Multiple Ways to Participate
We facilitate an interdisciplinary co-design process through a digital portal, workshops, events, residencies, demos, and exhibitions supported by educational contents and mentoring.
Drama Pedogogy
– Co-operation With The Local Schools
Capacity Building Opportunities for Designers
The Design Briefs Challenge Designers to Innovate Together
The Design Wave Festival Reaches Audiences in Latvia
International Residencies and Tailored Business Incubation Programme for Designers
The Design Artifacts Are Showcased Internationally
Time for (S)heroes -project is a genuine opportunity for artists to showcase the results of the design process and impact broad audiences in the realms of sustainable fashion, costume design, and art!
The interdisciplinary experiments are compiled into guidelines.
We are also creating sustainability and circular design guidelines, a co-design model, and building a collective mindscape to enhance sustainability. The co-design portal remains open access platform for interdisciplinary usage.
The Project Objectives and Roadmaps
Our goal is to improve fashion, clothes and costume designers’ digital design and business skills and to increase awareness of sustainable fashion and clothing among creative industries, customers, and wider audience.
We actively engage stakeholders across Europe in a co-creation process by developing a method to rethink the (S)hero narratives. A digital portal will be designed to facilitate capacity building, mentoring, co-design, and team formation. The portal hosts design briefs organized by category and will be made available as an open-source resource after the project concludes.
Consortium:
Time for (S)heroes 6 project partners from different European countries profoundly complement each other in activities in terms of skills. Every partner organization has specific responsibilities during the project. The following introduction provides only the key points regarding our partners’ responsibilities and capabilities. Please explore each organization further on their respective websites.
South-Eastern Finland University of Applied Sciences, Xamk, Creative Industries Research Unit, is the lead partner of the project. Xamk brings in project coordinating competencies, knowledge in digital fashion and costume design, and supports digital development and co-design.
Tallinn Business Incubator, TBI, has fostered the growth of design market in Estonia and showcased products internationally. In this project TBI offers the design participants an incubator program that supports in developing business models from preliminary ideas.
The Northern Dimension Partnership on Culture, NDPC, is a unique cooperation platform that has flexibility to work with public and private organizations. NDPC’s responsibilities in this project are related to communication, dissemination and capacity building.
ESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture, powered by Lemongrass communications S.L., supports interconnection between art, culture, science, and society. In this project ESPRONCERA facilitates the creation of design especially within the residencies.
Nurogames is an intependent game development and software engineering company that is in charge of the web design process of the digital portal. They will also produce digital contents to the marketing communication of the project.
The Latvian Technological Center, LTC, is a technology and innovation-orientated business support structure, and has a great experience in event organization. LTC is leading the planning and realization of Design Wave Festival in this project.
Meet the Xamk Team
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