INTERNATIONAL MULTI-DAY SYMPOSIUM ON SUSTAINABLE FASHION, DESIGN AND ARTS

15 December 2025 and 16 – 19 January 2026

W&K-Atelier, KunstQuartier, Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges, Salzburg, Austria

In various inputs, formats and workshops, we engage in dialogue and exchange with artists, curators, designers, filmmakers, researchers, and cultural practitioners to reflect upon the complexities of worldmaking processes in view of climate emergency and environmental fractures. Together, we explore modes of decolonial ecologies and ecological reparations through community-based artistic practices that address sustainability and the entanglement of climate, social, racial, and environmental issues.

WORLDMAKING MATTERS. figures as a ground for getting to know practices of designing fabrics and crafting textures to reimagine sustainable futures, and to approach diverse modes and formations of sustainable worlds and forms of knowing that are part of the multilayered process of worldmaking.

The multi-day symposium in December 2025 and January 2026 invites future thoughts and practices, and the sharing of multiple forms of knowledge and artistic practices on sustainability in relation to social relations and the living world.

Everyone is welcome — no preparation needed. Just come and join the conversation.

Free entry to all events of the symposium. Please register for participation prior to the event at: roswitha.gabriel@plus.ac.at

Concept, Organization and Host: Doris Posch

DAY ZERO – Mon, 15 DEC 2025 10:00 – 18:30

►10:00–10:30
WELCOME SYMPOSIUM
W&K-Atelier & online

►10:30–12:30
CRAFTIVISM IN FASHION –
Creative Practices as Tools for Social Change
Guest Input & Artist Conversation with Edward Muyizi and Eria Tamale, Founders of the fashion brand Seamline Atelier, Uganda
W&K-Atelier & online

►13:30–15:30
WEAR YOUR STORY, WEAR YOUR HERITAGE –
Weaving Tales of Identity, Culture, and Creativity through Fashion
Guest Input & Artist Conversation with Asiimwe Sanvura, Founder and Creative Director of the fashion brand Sanvra, Uganda
W&K-Atelier & online

►16:00–17:30
KOUTKEKOUT – AT ALL KOSTS
by Joseph Hillel, Canada
Film Screening, AUSTRIAN PREMIERE
DAS KINO, Giselakai 11, Salzburg

►17:30–18:30
WORLDMAKING MATTERS AT ALL KOSTS
Artist Conversation & Audience Discussion with Filmmaker Joseph Hillel, Canada, and Researcher and Curator
Doris Posch, Austria / Sweden
DAS KINO, Giselakai 11, Salzburg

DAY ONE – Fri, 16 JAN 2026, 15:00–18:30

►15:00–15:15
WELCOME – SYMPOSIUM OPENING

►15:15–16:45
SHIFT – Entering Digital Economies
Workshop PART ONE with Géraldine Honauer, Artist and System Architect, Switzerland
W&K-Atelier

►17:00–18:30
SHIFT – Becoming Onchain
Workshop PART TWO with Géraldine Honauer, Artist and System Architect, Switzerland
W&K-Atelier

DAY TWO – Sat, 17 JAN 2026 10:30–19:00

►10:30–11:00
CHECK-IN SYMPOSIUM DAY TWO
W&K-Atelier

►11:00–13:30
WORLDING WITH THE ALIEN
Workshop with Mary Maggic, Artist and Researcher, Austria / USA
W&K-Atelier

►15:00–16:30
TRANSHEMISPHERIC RE-MEDIATION
Keynote Lecture Performance with Luis Berríos-Negrón, Environmental Artist and Experimental Architect, Puerto Rico / Sweden
W&K-Atelier

►17:00–19:00
CURRENTS.SYSTEMS – Data as Performance
Workshop with Géraldine Honauer, Artist and System Architect, Switzerland
W&K-Atelier

DAY THREE – Mon, 19 JAN 2026 11:00–15:00

►11:00–11:15
CHECK-IN SYMPOSIUM DAY THREE

►11:15–14:30
WEAVING WITH ANYTHING ~ STORYTELLING THROUGH MATERIAL
Artist Presentation and Crafting Circle with Monica C. LoCascio, Transdisciplinary Artist, Austria
W&K-Atelier

Society & Sustainability | Contemporary Art and Cultural Production
Inter-University Organization Arts & Knowledges
Paris Lodron University Salzburg and Mozarteum University Salzburg, Austria