With an annual SYMPOSIUM as a dynamic format for dialogue and exchange, GREEN CYCLES is presenting both digital and presence setups for developing research.

24 / 11 / 2023

HAMBURG
digital

19 / 11 / 2022

HAMBURG / BALTIMORE, USA
digital

19 / 11 / 2021

HAMBURG / THAILAND
digital

20 / 11 / 2020

HAMBURG / THAILAND 
digital

18 / 10 / 2019

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

19 / 10 / 2018

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Forum Finkenau

20 / 10 / 2017

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

27 / 05 / 2016

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

29 / 05 / 2015

HAMBURG
Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe

23 / 05 / 2014

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

24 / 05 / 2013

HAMBURG
Wälder-Haus, IBA Internationale Bauausstellung Hamburg

29 / 06 / 2012

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

20 / 05 / 2011

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

25 / 06 / 2010

HAMBURG
HAW Hamburg, Campus Armgartstraße

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.

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