ABOUT
DEBATE, RESEARCH & EXPERIMENT
GREEN CYCLES is a think tank and a tool to place and position the increasing questions about textile and fashion sustainability and a platform for designers, engineers, researchers and theorists as well as an incubator for students and alumnae. Located in the design department of HAW Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences, GREEN CYCLES is an international and transdisciplinary format.
The 21st Century so far has seen a rise and multiplicity of big and small initiatives with proposals to address the problematics of the globally working fashion and textile industries, which for a long time neglected all awareness acting in a very linear way from product to waste with mostly taking on little responsibility. The focus on new textile and fashion thinking, researching and making is internationally working its way out from increasingly local starting points to question, influence and change industry.