Kyoto Design Lab Textiles Summer School

Photo by Lígia Lopes

The KYOTO Design Lab Textiles Summer School is an ongoing collaboration with designers, textile engineers and materials scientists from Japan and overseas. It combines in-depth study, field research and workshops with traditional and experimental textile producers in the Tango Peninsula and a five-day hands-on prototyping-based design workshop using the advanced workshop facilities of KYOTO D-Lab led by Mika Satomi (Kobakant),  Kangan Arora (Central Saint Martins, UAL) and Professor Julia Cassim (D-lab). The aim is to foster long-term creative and technical collaboration between all parties and simultaneously gain new insights into how traditional skills and new technologies can be merged.

Kangan led print workshops at the Textiles Summer School in 2018 and 2019.

To celebrate 300 years of the chirimen fabric, KIT held an exhibition at their Tokyo gallery called Alternative Futures: contemporary design responses to the 300 year Tango chirimen tradition in 2020. See more here.