This satellite lab—an exhibition commons—within Fashion Fictions draws on the current research and past insights of the Textile Adaptation Research Program, NewCraft and the formative cloTHING(s) as Conversation research initiative. Works on display and adjacent to the lab are inclusive of current students, alumni researchers, Material Matters guest artists and designers.

Lab:Here//Too//For merges design, research creation and knowledge exchange as means to uncover new possibilities that support responsible ecological and social action.

Our overall goal is to foster new conversations connected to our relations with the materials we use as artists and designers and the implications of the forms we create, engaging the general public and colleagues in a series of dialogues and workshops that contemplate and share. For us, much of this work involves embracing risk in our creative practices. Doing so often shifts our assumptions, enabling us to do things differently.Over a 4 month period the Material Matters team (and guests!) are engaging with three overarching thematic prompts:Disturbance + Interplay Renewal + Regeneration Reorganization

Can textiles, products and the clothing that we design offer a plurality (many diverse kinds!) of circumstances and deeply inter-relational material worldviews?

Yes please!