LCF Sampled: Collective Care, Panel Discussion

Join us for a thought-provoking panel discussion featuring artists and designers including Charlotte Hodes, Yunpei Li, Eve Lin and Katelyn Toth-Fejel from the Collective Care exhibition at LCF, chaired by Dr. Leila Nassereldein, curator of the exhibition.

In a world often focused on individualism, this exhibition redefines care as a powerful force that links personal well-being with the health of our communities and the planet. Through fashion, art, and social commentary, the exhibition delves into the multifaceted nature of care, from intimate love to radical global responsibility.

The discussion will explore how self-care can blossom into collective action, challenging us to rethink shared histories, redefine personal boundaries, and cultivate a culture of empathy and compassion.

Refreshments will be offered in the Foyer after the event, offering the chance for further discussions and visiting the exhibition out of hours.

This event is free and open to all, please register to attend.

Charlotte Hodes is Professor of Fine Art at London College of Fashion (UAL). A leading figure in contemporary art, Hodes’ work profiles her long-standing engagement with the crossovers between the fine and decorative arts, drawing on craft processes to create imagery firmly situated within the language of painting. Hodes' ideas are embedded within the practice of drawing and collage. The layered surfaces of her collages make visible the often invisible labour of women. Her signature technique is rooted in female associated activities such as tapestry, embroidery and quilting. She often uses archives and collections as starting points for her projects, most recently Musée Ariana, Geneva, the fashion design templates in the LCF library archive, the ceramic design engravings at the Spode factory, as well as 18th century paintings and porcelain at The Wallace Collection, London. @charlottehodes

Yunpei Li is a PhD candidate currently enrolled at the London College of Fashion, where her research is centered on Inflatable-Wear and its transformative and affective potential, as well as the embodied wearing experiences and spatial relations it creates. She interrogates the symbiotic relationships between the wearer, the audience, and related embodied relations that emerge from the embodied practice of Inflatable-Wear, derived space around the fashioned body, and the unforeseen encounters that arise from the wearing experience in kinetic public environments. She aims to create a series of embodied wearable installations and activate body-centered embodied experience during her future study on Inflatable-Wear. @pp_liyunpei

Eve Lin is a digital fashion designer, educator, and illustrator with a rich background in the field. Currently, she is working as a curriculum developer focused on climate justice at the London College of Fashion. Eve's academic journey includes a BA/MA in womenswear from Central Saint Martins and PhD researcher from the Royal College of Art. Following her fashion studies, she became a fashion entrepreneur from 2010 to 2016. Her works in illustration have been recognized with the Red Dot Design Award in both 2014 and 2018. Eve's professional experience includes being a design consultant for the Asia-based TEXMA Corp and Def. it Denim, and shared her knowledge as a fashion design lecturer in London, at Shih Chien University in Taipei, the FIT in New York, and RCA. Eve is also the author of "The Girl Who Worries Too Much" and "Practice of Fashion Drawing," and she has contributed as a resident columnist to CACAO, an art and design online magazine between 2020 and 2022. @Auto_Narrative

Katelyn Toth-Fejel is an artist, researcher, designer, and lecturer whose practice blends fine art, cartography, and social sciences. Her PhD project, Fashion-in-Residence, brings together drawing, ethnographic methods and participatory art to explore the relationship between more sustainable fashion practices and their connection to place. Katelyn is a Senior Lecturer in Fashion and Sustainability at the London College of Fashion. katelyntothfejel.com

Visitor Information

Address: London College of Fashion, 105 Carpenters Road, London, E20 2AR.

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