Participants:
Shenkar college - Ori Topaz, Anna Solo, Ayelet Karmon;
University of the Arts London - Elisa Palomino Perez, Ana Cordoba Crespo
The paper "Making fish skin garments: developing digital tools for the fashion industry based on Ainu Indigious People's tradition", written by FISHSkin researchers Elisa Palomino Perez, Ori Topaz, Anna Solo, Ayelet Karmon and Ana Cordoba Crespo, was presented at the 2021 Responsible Fashion Series - Breaking the Mould conference at the University of Antwerp.
The research takes inspiration from traditional Ainu practices and explores the use of advanced digital tools to help integrate fish skins in contemporary fashion. The various digital tools are used to help ensure zero-waste designs, and enable the integration of different irregular unique shapes into one garment design.
Parallel to presenting the use of the digital tools, the researchers presented a replica of an Ainu fish skin robe, combining traditional Japanese Katazome Indigo dyes.
Robe assembly: Vanna Bellini. Katasome art: Takayuki Ishii.
Participants: Kyoto Seika University - Mitsuhiro Kokita and Yuji Yonehara University of Arts London - Elisa Palomino
On November 18th, our Japanese partner Kyoto Seika University took part in the annual Science Agora symposium, presenting the FISHSkin project in the view of the mutual benefits of EU-Japan collaboration in research and innovation. Invited by the EU delegation to Japan, Yuji Yonehara and Mitsuhiro Kokita of KSU together with FISHSkin researcher Elisa Palomino of University of the Arts London presented FISHSkin to the local Japanese audience in the Horizon 2020 session.
Location: Kent State University, USA Participants:
University of Arts London - Elisa Palomino, Edwin Phiri
Iceland University of the Arts - Katrín María Káradóttir
The paper ‘Indigenous Fish Skin Craft Revived Through Contemporary Fashion' by researchers of the FISHSkin project has received the Senior Researcher Award by
International Foundation of Fashion Technology Institutes (IFFTI).
The paper looks at the role of fish skin in the Arctic as a way to bridge knowledge and social justice between generations and cultures, and to nurture resilience during times of change and transformation.
The paper examines a case study of Atlantic Leather tannery and its role in preserving the rich cultural traditions that have been developed within the Icelandic fishing industry while processing fish leather. The production process has brought this historic eco-luxury material back into fashion and provided Blue jobs for coastal dwellers in remote rural areas, maintaining the viability of the fisheries sector and attracting young people to work in them, therefore promoting social justice through inclusive jobs.