On 10 December 2021, will take place EFHA International Symposium, titled Crafting Heritage. Organised in collaboration with DIDA – Università degli studi Firenze and Museo del Tessuto di Prato, the online symposium will explore how fashion and its products – textiles, accessories and clothes – can inform a better understanding of the relationship between craftsmanship and heritage.

The symposium explores different definitions of crafts through three main themes: Restoring, Reactivating, Resisting. Here is the full program of the event:

13.30-13.45 Welcome, Marco Rendina, EFHA Managing Director and Filippo Guarini, Director of the Museo del Tessuto di Prato

13.45 – 14.00 Introduction to the conference and presentation of the CRAFTED project, Marta Franceschini and Anna Carniel EFHA

Panel 1 – Restoring

14.00 – 14.20 Celine Vogt – Head of Education, Michelangelo Foundation for Creativity and Craftsmanship
Restoring the value of craftsmanship through an immersive exhibition project: Homo Faber

14.20 – 14.40 Isabella Villafranca Soissons – Director, OPENCARE
Reconstructing heritage, reactivating craftsmanship: the restoration of a Christian Dior shoe

14.40 – 15.00 Stephanie Ovide – Textile Conservator, Phd candidate in Science Art Creation Research at Ensad/Psl University
Conserving Fashion in France today: highlights of the Balenciaga collection

15.00 – 15.20 Laura Fiesoli – Responsible of Contemporary and Digital Area, Museo del Tessuto di Prato
European traditional costumes: enhancement and inspiration in the “Stitch” Project

15.20 – 15.45 Roundtable, chairs Gabriele Monti, Università Iuav di Venezia, and Elisabetta Cianfanelli, Università degli Studi di Firenze

15.45 – 16.00 Break

Panel 2 – Reactivating

16.00 – 16.20 Nadia Albertini – Embroidery designer and fashion historian
Discovering and preserving the work of Rébé (1911-1966)

16.20 – 16.40 Gloria d’Este – Weaver, tessitura Luigi Bevilacqua
The Uniqueness of Savoir Faire

16.40 – 17.00 Pauline Gandiol – Responsible of Istituto dei Mestieri d’Eccellenza in Italy for LVMH
Creation, craft and client experience: The importance of transmission in The luxury sector

17.00 – 17.20 Maria Claudia Coppola – Università degli Studi di Firenze
Prato textile district: a story of vanguard and tradition

17.20 – 17.40 Ariel Stark – Alaïa Foundation
Couturier/collectionneur: Reactivating contemporary and historical fashion collections at the Azzedine Alaïa Foundation

17.40 – 18.00 Roundtable, chairs Karolien De Clippel, ModeMuseum Hasselt, and Adelheid Rasche, Germanisches Nationalmuseum

18.00 – 18.10 Break

Panel 3 – Resisting

18.10 – 18.30 Leonardo Giliberti – Università degli Studi di Firenze
Undo – Redo: time travelling through digital archives

18.30 – 18.50 Mariah Majolo – Independent Researcher, Università Iuav di Venezia
FuxiCo project: Brazilian craftsmanship as a tool for social and feminist design

18.50 – 19.10 Myrsini Pichou – ATOPOS cvc Research Advisor
‘Crafted’ memory: nine paper dresses by Issey Miyake

19.10 – 19.30 Eldina Begic – PhD Candidate, UAL – LCF
Craft as a tool of resistance

19.30 – 19.50 Roundtable, chairs Marco Pecorari, The New School – Parsons Paris and Djurdja Bartlett, London College of Fashion

19.50 – 20.00 Closing Remarks

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The full programme can be downloaded here, while abstracts and bios of the participants can be found here.

The symposium will be online and attendance is free. Register HERE

**The symposium fits within the framework of the project CRAFTED.

**The symposium considers fashion as starting point to reflect on human and environmental sustainability, abiding by the agenda of NEB – New European Bauhaus, of which EFHA is official partner.