How to be a Resourceful Human?
An inspiring talk about how te be a resourceful human being, by creator and author of "Solar Low Tech Magazine" Kris De Decker.
Anneleen Bertels is a Belgian textile designer and researcher based in Brussels.
After gaining diverse experiences as a fashion designer and product developer for several major fashion houses such as Balenciaga, Maison Martin Margiela and Ann Demeulemeester, she choose to fully dedicate herself to her passion for the craftsmanship of textiles and found her own Textile & Embroidery Lab.
Her textile & embroidery practice draws on a deeply intellectual, dauntless and poetic research. It imbues her work with an embodied intelligence that convinces haute couture houses, fashion universities or private clients alike. By collaborating with goldsmiths, architects or engineers, she opens up embroidery to manifest a physical form of poetry in other spaces, scales and disciplines.
Her work positions tactile, microscopic beauty within a bigger political and philosophical picture of global issues like sustainability, cultural heritage and technological innovation.
In her Lab she does research on how the development of new (sustainable) materials and innovative technologies interacts and clashes with traditional crafts and techniques. On one hand she keeps perfecting her artisanal haute couture embroidery techniques, on the other she experiments with traditional and innovative production methods to create her own beads from reclaimed materials.
She collaborates with other craftsmen to entangle various jewelry, embroidery and textile techniques.
Since the founding of her own Textile & Embroidery Lab in January 2022, she develops “jewellerized textiles”: textile work embellished or mended through embroidery with jewellery pieces.
She has been teaching as a guest lecturer at Beckmans Designhögskola in Stockholm, Aalto University in Helsinki and KASK School of Arts in Ghent.
With the use of sustainable fibers and reclaimed materials, in combination with her contemporary vision on traditional textiles, she want to contribute to a more sustainable and holistic fashion & textile industry and share this knowledge.