Museums – Hanover – Campaign “Big Sweater Day”: Students for climate protection – culture
Hanover (dpa/lni) – heating off, sweater on: fashion design students at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences presented their creations for the “Big Sweater Day” in Hanover on Sunday. With this campaign you are committed to climate protection. “The resulting outfits and sweaters have to do with the content of climate change and consumer criticism,” said Martina Glomb, fashion professor and head of the project. This is not only intended as a message, it is also about the choice of materials – leftovers and old sweaters found have been refurbished. It’s about what everyone can personally change and listen to, Glomb emphasized.
Because of the bad weather, the students presented their work in the Museum August Kestner, which is showing the exhibition “Useless. Slow fashion against waste and ugly clothes”. “Clothes are ugly when they are made under inhumane conditions, when the environment hides underneath and when they waste resources,” explained Glomb. Visitors were invited to put on their favorite jumper and bring discarded jumpers to swap.
The organizers of the “Dicke Pulli Tag” were the useless Center for Sustainable Design Strategies at the Hanover University of Applied Sciences and the Agenda 21 and Sustainability Office of the State Capital Hanover. The Climate Action Day was launched last year. The idea IS to turn the heat down and put on a heavy sweater instead. The climate protection campaign originally comes from Belgium.
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