The Laundry Pile: Panel Discussion

This event has been organised by Emma Rigby, Jade Whitson-Smith, Lizzie Harrison and Andrew Brooks

By The Fire Collective

<H2>The Laundry Pile: Materials, Meanings and Mundanities of Everyday Life</H2>
<H3>Panel discussion as part of London Design Festival 2017</H3>
6.45pm – 8pm on Wednesday 20th September 2017, the Carpenter's Arms [upstairs function room], 12 Seymour Place, Marylebone, London, W1H 7NE
The cleaning and care of our clothes is a universal experience, yet how much thought do we really give it? Laundry has transformed from being a low-technology hand practice done in the home or by local laundresses with the use of a few basic implements; to a fully mechanised steam industry at the turn of the twentieth century based on models of mass production and profit maximisation, and finally back to a domesticated home practice.  As laundry practices have evolved, one outcome (of many) is an increase in environmental impact.  Indeed, the impacts of laundering are inadvertent and somewhat ironic: laundry can be understood as a practice of both purity and pollution.
Cutting through the mundanity that is usually associated with doing the laundry, this panel discussion will bring together the viewpoints of experts and academics from a range of areas including: fashion and design, sociology, geography, history and the detergent industry.  From these diverse perspectives, the discussion will explore how laundry practices have developed and evolved, taken on new meanings and consequently given rise to different types of environmental impact. Further, it will explore more sustainable directions for the future of fashion and laundry.
Panellists include:
Professor Kate Fletcher, Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion
Dr Alexander Papiez, Development Chemist, IDEAL Manufacturing 
Professor Rosie Cox, Department of Geography, Birkbeck University of London
Dr Victoria Kelley, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, Central Saint Martins
Dr Thomas Roberts, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Surrey 
Chair:
Dr Andrew Brooks, Department of Geography, Kings College London
 
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Carpenter's Arms [upstairs function room]

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