BioShades Workshop & Talks

Workshop  Thursday, March 15, 2018, - 15:00 to 18:00 
Talks     Thursday, March 15, 2018, - 20:00 to 22:00
Location : MAZDA SPACE, Carrer Commerc 60
The entrance to this event is free. There are limited spots available. 
You can register HERE for the workshop
You can register HERE for the TALKS



BioShades is coming to a TCBL Lab near you!  
Learn how to dye fabrics with bacteria together with other participants across Europe. 
During this BioShades event TextileLab Amsterdam will connect with labs across Europe and dye textile with bacteria together! 
BioShades exists of a hands-on workshop and evening lectures with experts from the field. 
The whole event will take place at TextileLab Amsterdam – Waag, but you can join in different TCBL labs across Europe. 
Fab Textiles is one of the TCBL participating labs, offering the workshop and the live streaming of the talks.

Could dyeing with bacteria be an alternative to chemical dyes? With BioShades we explore the potential of dyeing with bacteria as a less harmful 
alternative in TextileLab Amsterdam and the participating TCBL labs. The upcoming BioShades event on 15 March 2018 there will be a workshop and talkshow during which we explore 
dyeing with bacteria together.The workshop takes place at TextileLab Amsterdam – Waag and streamed live in different TCBL labs across Europe where local instructors while lead you through the process step by step. 

During this TCBL BioShades event labs across Europe will connect through a video conferencing system and address this issue during a distributed 
bacteria dyeing workshop and an evening talks that gives the floor to experts from different fields.
BioShades is part of TCBL [tcbl.eu/content/bioshades] that aims to renew the European Textile & Clothing sector. 
We explore new ways to design, make, and work together and inventing new business models to open up new markets. 
BioShades is one of the research topics. Join the event and connect to the TCBL BioShades network and other people interested in this topic.

Program (CET) BioShades Workshop (limited places available)
-14.30 Doors open
-15.00 Start workshop: get to know the other workshop participants across Europe!
-15.15 Introduction of bacteria dyeing
-15.30 Hands-on workshop
-17.30 Instructions for next steps
-18.00 End workshop

Program (CET) BioShades evening TALKS (open to the public)
The entrance to this event is free. There are limited spots available.Please register HERE
Did you know that in the textile industry one the most environmentally disastrous processes is the dyeing of fibers and textiles?  
-19:30 Doors open
-20:00-22:00  Talks via streaming
During two hours we give the floor to experts from different fields, explore the potential of bacteria dyeing together and connect to different participating TCBL labs on the spot!
The BioShades talks follow up on the BioShades workshop in the afternoon.The exact program and speakers of this evening will be announced soon.

Participating TCBL labs 
-Fab Textiles – Barcelona, Spain 
-Fabrica Arca – Palermo, Italy 
-Textile Museum – Prato, Italy 
-Lottozerro – Prato, Italy 
-Redu Place Lab - Iași, Romania 
-Oliva Creative Lab - São João da Madeira, Portugal 
-Sanjotec Design Lab - São João da Madeira, Portugal 
-FabLab Kamp-Lintfort - Kamp-Lintfort, Germany

This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under grant agreement no. 646133.

Join BioShades distributed workshop and let’s push the boundaries of the textile and clothing industry together!

       

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