Take part in one of five insightful tours to discover the outputs of ‘Decolonising Fashion and Textiles – Design for Cultural Sustainability with Refugee Communities’, a collaborative project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) led by Dr Francesco Mazzarella (Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London) across three east London boroughs (Newham, Tower Hamlets, and Waltham Forest) from 2022 to 2024.

Available times:

Tour 1: 13.00 – 13.30 (1pm - 1:30pm BST).

Tour 2: 14.30 – 15.00 (2:30pm - 3:00pm BST).

Tour 3: 16.00 – 16.30 BST (4:00pm - 4:30pm BST).

Tour 4: 17.30 – 18.00 BST (5:30pm - 6:00pm BST).

Tour 5: 18.30 – 19.00 BST (6:30pm - 7:00pm BST).

Throughout five immersive sections – focused on storytelling, making, learning, and activating – you can experience multi-media outputs, including textile autobiographies, a map, garments and accessories, textile artefacts, banners, photography and campaigning for policy change. You can gain insight into the lived experiences of London-based refugees and asylum seekers in relation to the themes of cultural sustainability and community resilience. At the tour, you will have the opportunity to engage with the Project Lead and fellow visitors to understand the reciprocal process of making and learning – through fashion and textiles – that brought this project to life.

For more information and to book your free ticket, click here.

The exhibition was made possible with the support of the Barbican Library, Arbeit Project Ltd, Bow Arts, the London boroughs of Newham, Tower Hamlets, Waltham Forest; Poplar HARCA, Rosetta Arts, the Victoria and Albert Museum, and the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees.