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Affecting Change; Research and Innovation in Business, Creative Practice and Academia by Dr Elaine Igoe
- 1. Affecting Positive Change in Human Rights; Research and Innovation in Business, Creative Practice and Academia Chair: Dr Elaine Igoe University of Portsmouth elaine.igoe@port.ac.uk @e_igoe
- 3. Rachel Breen 2018 ‘Shroud’
- 4. Rachel Breen 2018 Garment Supply Chain Map #4
- 9. Passion for Freedom promotes human rights and freedom of expression through the arts while providing support to victims of human rights abuses. Passion for Freedom pursues its mission through diverse activities including art exhibitions, festivals, seminars and workshops, as well as educational, welfare and support programmes. https://www.passionforfreedom.art
- 15. https://rad.cat/
Editor's Notes
- We welcome a range of speakers from business and academia from a range of disciplines within this section and this interdisciplinary approach is the focus. From within my faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries we have examples of world leading research improving the lives of disadvantaged groups Prof Joan Farrer – Interrreg funded Pontoon – digital skills for female immigrants Dr Cressida Bowyer – Air Network – using creative methodologies to empower people in communities suffering from poor air quality
- From within my own faculty of Creative and Cultural Industries we have examples of world leading interdisciplinary research improving the lives of disadvantaged groups, often dealing with the consequences of human rights contraventions. Prof Joan Farrer – Interreg funded Pontoon – digital skills for female immigrants Dr Cressida Bowyer – Air Network – using creative methodologies to empower people in communities suffering from poor air quality I will provide a few examples of projects using creative practice to address human rights issues, by raising awareness, giving a platform, changing established design and creative processes that could lead to human rights issues and addressing the issues through applied research.
- Begin with a project that addresses the Rana Plaza disaster directly. The 1,281 garments represent the number of Bangladeshi garment workers killed in the Rana Plaza building collapse in 2013, as well as the New Yorkers killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in 1911. Both incidents, which happened 102 years apart on different continents, tragically illustrate the dangerous conditions workers who make cheap clothing have faced and continue to face. Part of a larger exhibition called The Price of Our Clothes at the Perlman Teaching Museum in Minnesota – a collaboration with visual artist Rachel Breen and poet/creative writer, Alison Morse.
- Part of a larger exhibition called The Price of Our Clothes at the Perlman Teaching Museum in Minnesota – a collaboration with visual artist Rachel Breen and poet/creative writer, Alison Morse. The drawing incorporates floor plans of the Triangle Shirtwaist and Rana Plaza factories, as well as shapes of fabric scraps the artists collected during their trip to Bangladesh. Visitors can also call different telephone numbers and listen to sound pieces created by Morse, including recordings of interviews, poems, and sound collages.
- Their research process – qualitatative, ethnographic research - from their trip to Dhaka in 2015 can be read on their blog https://thepriceofourclothes.wordpress.com/ - on their visit they learn of other accidents at factories including the Tazreen Fashion Factory fire of 2002 which killed hundreds of workers but did not reach international attention. The management had left the building and locked the doors. There were no fire safety measures in place. It has been reported that families are still seeking compensation. The survivors understood the impact that their work could have on raising awareness of their plight.
- The dress is project from the Helen Storey Foundation and was created from a decommissioned UNHCR (United Nations High Commission for Refugees) refugee tent that once housed a displaced Syrian family at Za'atari Camp in Jordan, and was gifted to the project by UNHCR. In giving the tent a second life, it endows this public art installation with an unbreakable bond to humanity and represents the importance of nurturing and protecting all people and safeguarding generations to come. It is a symbol of what it means to be human and the precarious nature of our existence. The dress has digitally displayed scientific data, which showed us the impact of climate change on our physical world, broadened the dialogue around migration, highlighting the millions of displaced people and the paths they take in search of a better life.
- Prof Helen Storey - University of Arts London leading on cross-institutional projects of applied arts-lead social research – continues as designer in residence at the Za’atari refugee camp. Helen Storey Foundation is a London based, project funded, not for profit arts organisation, creating collaborative work across art, fashion, science, design and technology for social, cultural and education use.
- In the field, highlighting the creative acts that define humanity in inhumane conditions. This broom tells so much about the maker and his place in the world. Become eblems that capture imagination. Engage the creativity of those experiencing violations of their human rights. Since Helen's first visit to the Za'atari Refugee Camp in 2016, she has co created and delivered a number of projects with Syrian Women and girls. Through collaborative partnerships and informed by direct needs, they have together built upon existing talent and sought to foster increased opportunities for expert skills training, as well explore new creative approaches to enhance enterprise and education. She stresses these projects are as much about what Syrians have to teach us, as they are about us sharing knowledge, training and opportunity. These include a soap and perfume and beauty product development projects, skills workshops for entrepreneurial and creative women and education and training for young girls – TIGER girls These Inspiring Girls Enjoy Reading PLATFORMS
- UK based organisation Passion for Freedom – platform for artists, journalists, writers, filmmakers Passion for Freedom organises an annual international arts competition and exhibition on human rights and freedom of speech. This facilitates open, critical discussion about the value of freedom and the risk of losing it. Through exhibitions, seminars and workshops, Passion for Freedom creates space for artists, writers and the public to explore subjects and themes often omitted from mainstream artistic discourse.
- Art Works Project is a Chicago based initiative to use design and the arts to raise awareness of and educate the public about significant human rights issues. VISUAL ADVOCACY through exhibitions, books, recordings, films and more – look for hosts for their exhibitions and invite collaborators.
- A project from 2012 Changing creative practices and new disciplinary areas
- We use design to imagine and build the world we need to live in – one that is safe and just.
- My one criticism of these principles is that they are worded in such a way to assume that designers do not already exist in marginalised or violated communities.
- Free online zines – breaks down and details the principles – a great educational tool.
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- Free Open Book by Dr Margaret Hagan – Legal Design Lab and Stanford (across Law School and D.School) She advocates for a design-driven approach to legal innovation. http://www.lawbydesign.co In our next speakers we see people who are really affecting change with their work in business, sociology and pedagogy. We are delighted to welcome Mart Drake Knight from Teemill, Simon Stewart, Director of ……, Claire Lerpiniere of De Montfort University and Matthew Anderson expert on busienss ethics and author of A History of Fair Trade in Contemporary Britain: From Civil Society Campaigns to Corporate Compliance