Written by Co-hosted with Fab City Foundation, our upcoming make-a-thek community call brings together practitioners, makers, cultural organisations, and circular economy actors to explore how local ecosystems can support more circular textile practices and collective action.
We will draw on two grounded examples to spark the conversation. In the Bergisches Region, Adriana Cabrera’s work builds on second-hand roundtables and sewing workshops that bring communities together around repair, reuse, and shared textile practices. In Amsterdam, Cecilia Raspanti’s work at TextileLab Amsterdam, Waag FutureLab, and The Linen Project — where a 100% city-based textile is being developed, including an iconic garment for the Mayor as part of the city’s 750th anniversary — demonstrates how localised circular value chains can take shape in cities.
Together, these examples open up questions around how communities can be activated around repair, reuse, and making; how local circular value chains can emerge and scale; and the role of civic spaces, such as libraries, makerspaces, and cultural hubs, in enabling shared learning and responsibility.
Date & Time:
Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 14:00 CEST
Sign up here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/QOkmvoOrTc-B_Q_dDNo6_A
Speakers
Adriana is a Colombian designer and researcher working at the intersection of sustainable materials, digital fabrication, and systemic design. Through roles at CSCP, Fabricademy, and fabcare.network, she advances circular economy thinking, inclusive innovation, and co-creative ecosystems across Latin America and Europe.
Cecilia is a creative researcher and co-founder of TextileLab Amsterdam at Waag FutureLab and Fabricademy. She leads open-source research into bio-driven materials, natural dyes, and bacterial pigments, advocating for transparent knowledge-sharing at the crossroads of traditional craft, biotechnology, and digital fabrication.
See you then 🙂
make-a-thek has received funding from the European Horizon Europe programme under grant agreement No. 101177660.
