2021

Smith Emily
Burgess Rebecca
Cammon Melanie
Hewson Kyla
Kate Armstrong
Demiralp Cemre

podcasts

Fibreshed Field School

In our inaugural episode of Fibre Stories, guests Rebecca Burgess and Emily Smith talk about new perspectives towards future fibre systems and how the Fibershed model offers a space to explore alternative economics and local production. In this episode, we discuss: The formation of Fibershed, the Fibreshed Field School and the philosophy behind them; decolonizing education; an alternate look at universities as place-based knowledge institutions; regenerative fibre practices, comparing scale of traditional fibre systems to industrial fibre systems. Episode Guests: Emily Smith is the creator of the Fibershed Field School and co-founder of the Vancouver Fibreshed. Rebecca Burgess is an author, the executive director of Fibershed and Board Chair of the Carbon Cycle Institute. Keywords: Fibershed, Education, Local Economies of Production, Colonial & Decolonial Fibre Systems, Place-based Knowledge

Place-based education--Textiles--Decolonization--Education

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47:33 min.

Created by Emily Smith, Fibreshed Field School investigated ecologically sensitive and economically viable methods of local textile production collaboratively with Fibershed, an international network founded by Rebecca Burgess. This program was co-designed by Emily Smith, Kate Armstrong, Cemre Demiralp, and ​Hélène Day Fraser and operated by the Shumka Centre for Creative Entrepreneurship in partnership with Aboriginal Gathering Place and Material Matters at Emily Carr University of Art + Design throughout 2020 – 2021.

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