Marta Giralt investigates how nanotechnology could make the fashion industry more environmentally friendly for this Virtual Design Festival collaboration.
Called Rethinking Materials, the final session in today's Design Museum takeover of VDF will highlight the problems around synthetic clothing, and discuss the importance of redesigning materials and production systems to create more sustainable alternatives.
Giralt will introduce a short documentary called Demystifying a Wonder Material, in which she investigates the graphene industry. Engineered in 2004, the Nobel Prize-winning, nanotechnologically produced material is a one-atom-thick layer of carbon that is extra-durable, flexible and lightweight.
Marta Giralt completed a residency with the Design Museum The outcome of a year-long residency at the Design Museum, Giralt's project focuses on how graphene could be combined with biomaterials and natural fibres to make these materials more durable while still retaining their ability to decompose.
The screening will be followed by a series of short back-to-back interviews covering topics such as the future of material production, corporate accountability and the current process behind material innovation in the field of footwear.
Giralt will speak to Caroline Till of research agency FranklinTill, Wilson Oryema, co-founder of Regenerative Futures, a think tank focusing on how young people can instigate global change, and Angela Mathis, who is a material and innovation designe...