Cobbled Goods: Imagining a decentralised footwear industry - GFA24

This speculative workshop is based on the Fashion Fictions model which brings people together to engage with "fictional visions of alternative fashion cultures and systems." We will bring together sustainable footwear pioneers to explore a parallel fictional world where business size is capped leading to the decentralisation of the footwear industry.
The aim is to demonstrate the consequences of concentrated corporate power and share different perspectives on what a radically different footwear production system could look like. One where most shoes—are not made from plastic in Asia by underpaid workers at the ends of long opaque supply chains. And where footwear industry ownership is not dominated by giant asset managers, private equity, and other forms of big finance.

PARTICIPANTS

• Tansy Hoskin, Journalist & Author of The Anti- Capitalist Book Of Fashion and Foot Work – What Your Shoes Tell You About Globalisation
• Lili Dreyer, Founder of VAER Upcycled
• Sven Segal, Founder of Better Shoes Foundation and SneakAhead
• Chandni Batra, Founder of A Blunt Story
• Lotte Mulder & Stefan Wobben, Founders of Nooch Footwear
• Ariel Fabbro, Founder of Cobbled Goods

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Global Fashioning Assemby (GFA) is a biennial online gathering of local fashion coalitions from around the world to decenter and decolonise knowledge creation and sharing on body fashioningpractices and heritages.

GFA was initiated in 2021 by the Research Collective on Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF), a not-for-profit organisation registered in the Netherlands.

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