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Wellington-based people I strongly encourage you to come along to a free public talk CoCA Massey 'In conversations with Sinéad Burke' one of the ‘25 most influential women working in Britain’ in 2018 talk about diversity, inclusion, design, and disability. Please share widely!

An activist, academic, teacher, writer and advocate, Sinéad works towards accelerating systemic change within the domains of diversity, education, inclusion, design, and disability. Sinéad works towards accelerating systemic change within the domains of diversity, education, inclusion, design and disability. She consults within the fashion, architecture, technology and design industries to ensure that spaces and products are accessible to all. Sinéad is responsible for the introduction of the term for little person, ‘duine beag’, into the Irish language. Sinéad is a TED speaker, her talk ‘Why Design Should Include Everyone’ has amassed over one million views and speaking on the topics of design, education and inclusion, she most recently addressed the Business of Fashion’s VOICES conference and was the only Irish female delegate at World Economic Forum’s 2018 annual meeting in Davos and returned as a Cultural Leader of Davos’ programme in 2019. Sinéad was presented with The Leadership Award at Eco-Age’s Green Carpet Fashion Awards by Gucci CEO, Marco Bizzarri. Sinéad is a Contributing Editor for British Vogue, she writes for the Financial Times, Teen Vogue and the New York Times. Sinéad has been a guest on The Moth and DeRay’s Pod Save the People. She is the coverstar of the Business of Fashion’s Age of Influence print issue, a member of the BoF500 and according to British Vogue, Sinéad is one of the 25 most influential women working in Britain in 2018

Thanks Stuff for allowing us to contribute to the discussion about this timely report by Tearfund New Zealand on ethical fashion.

Trelise Cooper hits back after ethical fashion report gives company an F Trelise Cooper has asked people who doubt the ethics of her company's manufacturing practices to unfollow her social media accounts.

Team NZ (Jennifer Whitty, Elizabeth McPhail, Julia Hope, Freedom Holloway & Charlie Walkley) from CoCA Massey at Massey University preparing to reimagine the textiles and clothing system with new business models, technological innovation & radical collaboration, to catalyse transformation at the hackathon as part of the Australia Circular Fashion Conference next week in Melbourne.

Gotta love Patagonia. Epic demonstration of design leadership. 👍👏💪

Patagonia donating its $10 million Trump corporate tax cut to environmental groups Patagonia plans to donate $10 million using the money it's saving from the Trump corporate tax cuts this year

Our director Jennifer Whitty is looking forward to sharing some insights from her ethnographic research and teaching in China from 2015-2018 at this event tomorrow in Adelaide University of South Australia City West Campus Redress Design Award Fashion Academy. Be inspired by the positive power of fashion!

Delighted we get to share the physical publication from our Fashion Activism trip to China in 2015 with 12 CoCA Massey students as part of this awesome event.
Asian Aotearoa Arts Huì (AAAH2018) is a public festival and national gathering celebrating diverse expressions of ‘Asianness’ in Aotearoa in the Arts.
Asian Aotearoa Arts (AAA) at The Engine Room
Book by Sarah Gardenier & Jennifer Whitty.

Well researched & comprehensive article - worth a read.

Can H&M Ever Be Sustainable? - Eco Warrior Princess H&M is pushing sustainability hard, putting it front and centre of its corporate strategy. With over 4,700 stores, 171,000 employees, approx 800 million customer transactions (for 2017) and having built its success on fast fashion's low-cost, high-volume business model we wonder: Can H&M ever really...

Poster for Jennifer Whitty's workshops in China.

Our director Jennifer Whitty is delighted to be back in Xi'an for the second time on a design residency conducting ethnographic research & co- design workshops around thinking fashion systems in China. 🇨🇳 She's very happy with the fantastic ideas emerging from the first week of workshops. 🙏❤👍










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New Zealand made clothing - has it become too hard to manufacture in this country?

Why New Zealand made fashion is hanging by a thread World provoked outrage when it was caught selling foreign-produced T-shirts as New Zealand made. But has it become too hard to manufacture in this country? Katie Ruscoe investigates. New Zealand made fashion is becoming increasingly rare. The Auckland warehouse of fashion fabric supplier Hawes and ...