Successfully completed the showcase of Local-International project – running from 2015 to present and facilitating German Bangladeshi fashion designer, professional and educator to promote Sustainability and fair productions.
LOCAL INTERNATIONAL focusses on sustainability and raises an awareness for both the wide range of options that fashion designers will face in their future careers, as well as the responsibility that designers incur in their professional role. Many questions are raised and discussed in seminars, in which invited specialists offer input at a high professional level to provide our participants with the best possible information, in order to enable them to make independent, responsible design decisions in their individual design processes.
Since 2015, 48 fashion designers and fashion students from Berlin and Dhaka have been selected to participate in LOCAL INTERNATIONAL.
LOCAL INTERNATIONAL project results have been presented in two exhibitions: local international I in the designtransfer gallery of the UdK, during Berlin Fashion Week 2015 and local international II in the Kunsthalle at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin in April 2016.
Since 2014 LOCAL INTERNATIONAL has been supported by Goethe Institut Bangladesh. LOCAL INTERNATIONAL is led by Prof. Heike Selmer, Professor of Fashion Design at weißensee kunsthochschule berlin and founding member of greenlab, and Prof. Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen, Professor of Fashion Design at Universität der Künste Berlin and director of the Institute of Experimental Garment and Textile Design.
To know more about this project please visit below links.
https://blog.goethe.de/local-international/pages/catalogue.html
https://localinternational.dunked.com
Iftekhar Rahman 