Written by We’re excited to invite you to a special Community Call, also the first for our new EU Horizon Project -make-a-thek, that brings together makers, designers, and circular fashion experts from around the world.
The meetup will offer a space to exchange and discuss approaches and ideas for sustainable and circular adaptive and inclusive design. Different experts will present their work, including makers working with on demand design and production technologies and fashion designers pioneering adaptive and inclusive sustainable design.
The aim of the meetup is to create new networks and understand how adaptive and inclusive design can become even more sustainable and circular.
Date & Time:
Wednesday, May 14th, 2025 at 14:00 CEST
Sign up here: [TBC]
Speakers
Sema Gedik, Founder, Lecturer & Inclusive Design Expert
Sema is a social innovator and inclusive design strategist, teaching at HTW Berlin and founder of the multi-award-winning label AUF AUGENHOEHE. Her work began with a personal mission to create clothing for people with short stature—sparked by her cousin’s experiences—and has since evolved into a broader mission to reshape fashion systems that ignore diverse needs. She’s collaborated with global brands to bring inclusion into the mainstream and continues to empower purpose-driven founders as a D&I consultant and mentor.
Saad is a Singapore-based geek, maker, and coffee epicure. Co-founder of SpudnikLab, a startup that works to address the digital divide through digital skills education and low-cost technologies. He initiated EdibleMakerspace that brings together art and Citizen Science through food and fermentation. Saad also initiated SalvageGarden, a non-profit makerspace for assistive technology. Saad serves on the advisory boards of the Global Innovation Gathering and r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation.
See you then 🙂
