Saturday May 14th we are hosting the FUTURE FIBERS Symposium which we are hosting in collaboration with UNIBZ, Free University of Bozen-Bolzano. https://www.unibz.it/  

We have invited a panel of speakers- textile designers, and industry professionals- to reflect on how their role as designers  and their experience working with fibres and fabrics can shed light on ways in which those who are part of the textile industry can contribute to a more sustainable future.  Taking into account alternative approaches to working with materials, technology and various systems of production, we will delve into the values that underpin a sustainable design practice and the awareness that is necessary to align these values with practical and realistic action.

Over the course of the event, we will have presentations from;

Lara Wernert, 13RUGS, discussing the role of remnants in circular textile production and the role the textile designer in bringing about sustainable change and innovation and how both of these approaches shape 13RUGS as a brand.

https://www.13rugs.com/en/

Sara Diaz Rodriguez, Studio HILO, discussing the need to take a different perspective on textile production and the importance of the open-source approach in areas of education, creativity and business.

https://www.studiohilo.com/

Nienke Hoogvliet, discussing the values that lie at the core of a sustainable design practice working with fibers and fabric, along with the steps involved in changing the existing perception around textile consumption.

https://www.nienkehoogvliet.nl/

The symposium will take place on Saturday 14th May at 11.00 CET. 

We are thrilled to announce that starting last week our MADE PROGRAM Fashion and Textile design course Students of the fine arts Academy in Syracuse, Sicily have arrived in Prato!

For the next 6 weeks, both the first and second year students will be immersing themselves in the textile district, studying, working and experimenting in our very own textile laboratory. 

For more information on this program write to info@madeprogram.it

Within the cycle of cross-hubs workshops organized by the CreativeWearPLUS Project, the Prato Textile Museum in collaboration with the University of Evora and Passa Ao Futuro, organizes an online event focusing on sustainability of traditional textile craftsmanship, presenting some contemporary experiences from Tuscany (IT) and Alentejo (PT) regions. The workshop aims to offer a perspective through the lens of local and global market opportunities and the urgency of knowledge transfer of the sector.

WORKSHOP AGENDA - starting at 4PM CET (3PM WET)

• 16.00 (15.00 WET) | Welcome greetings and workshop introduction: Filippo Guarini, Director of Prato Textile Museum.

• 16.10 (15.10 WET) | The Tuscan experiences introduction: Arianna Moroder, Lottozero Textile Laboratories.

• CRAAFTS. handcrafted surfaces for fashion & interiors: Elif Malkoclar, founder and designer.

• Fondazione Arte della Seta Lisio:
  Eva Basile, designer and textile expert.

• 16.55 (15.55 WET) | The Alentejo experiences introduction:
  Fatima Durkee, co-founder Passa Ao Futuro Association

• Fábrica Alentejana de Lanifícios:

  Mizette Nielsen, founder and textile designer.

• Saber Fazer:
  Alice Bernardo, founder and coordinator.

• 17.40 (16.40 WET) | Q&A Session and open debate.

  Participants are kindly invited to register for the workshop by filling in the following form

  https://forms.gle/Cs9V1u8Vgk2WXoR58

We are thrilled to announce that since January we have been taking over the Artstore of Salto.bz, a project developed by BAU and conceived as a digital gallery dedicated to artists from the Euregio region. For the whole of 2022 the curatorship is in our hands, every last Friday of the month we present an artist/designer/fashion designer linked to our network, who have in common the interest and use of textiles in their work. Through a special interview, they present and talk about a work of art or a design piece that is on sale exclusively on the Artstore.

The first featured profile is Violeta Nevenova, a Bulgarian dressmaker who creates very special unique garments.

Stay tuned to find out who's next!

We are excited to announce that Lottozero has become a shemakes lab starting January 2022.

shemakes is an important two-year European-Union-funded project under the Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme, it has the goal to empower future female innovators of the sustainable fashion industry through inspiration, skills and networks.

shemakes is creating opportunities and environments that enable women to move into roles of increasing power. This connects directly to the essential role of what this project calls “labs”, which are physical spaces for textile experimentation. In these safe spaces, we develop and test new ideas, carry out learning modules, hold workshops addressing gender issues or female entrepreneurship, and learn how to produce textile differently, with new machinery, methods or simply attitudes.

For more information about shemakes, please see the website www.shemakes.eu and follow on social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter @shemakes_eu).

We are incredibly proud to announce that our Textile Culture Net project, has been given a Special Mention by CIMAM for its Outstanding Museum Practices Award 2021!

Textile Culture Net, the collaborative and ongoing online exhibition initiative we are part of together with CHAT - Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Central Museum of Textiles Lodz and TextielMuseum, was lauded for forging new transnational collaboration models in response to the current global situation and ecological urgency.

Paying homage to the cooperative nature of textile practices as well as the application of new technologies, we joined forces to share our unique content, collection objects, and even manpower, not only to offer a fresh textile lens for wider audiences to enjoy art and design, but also to introduce a new chapter in curatorship and program direction for textile institutions today.

We are happy to announce that Lottozero will be part of the first edition of the Bolzano Art Weeks, from September 24th until October 3rd, 2021.

Organized by Cooperativa 19 and the Südtiroler Künstlerbund, BAW - Bolzano Art Weeks is a collective event created with the aim of providing a space - both physical and temporal - for the multifaceted contemporary art scene in South Tyrol, presenting more than 80 projects located in galleries, museums and ateliers, independent, public, private and temporary spaces.

We will present “Art and Textile” at Parkhotel Luna Mondschein, a selection of artists who have collaborated with us since 2016 during residencies, research projects, and special productions, pushing forward Lottozero's exploration of the relationship between textiles and contemporary art.

With: Roland Barth, Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Stefanie Kägi, Anna M. Rose, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Luca Vanello, Virginie Rebetez.

In collaboration with Vijion Art Gallery

Opening event: 24.09.202, h 18.00-20.00

Exhibition open from 25.09 to 10.10.2021: h 15.00 – 20.00

This Saturday, September 18 at 6:30 p.m. we will be presenting the first episode of our brand new exhibition format, LZ OPEN, with our dear friend, artist Virginia Zanetti.

At the end of our Lottozero Open Day, we will present Abysses, a piece created by the artist in 2018 and "Be a Poem", the catalog of Virginia Zanetti's solo exhibition at Palazzo D'Accursio in Bologna. The artist will be in dialogue with the curator of Lottozero Alessandra Tempesti.

In collaboration with Traffic Gallery.

Open until 23.12.2021 (Mon-Mar 9.00-18.00 / Sat-Sun by appointment)

TEXTILE CONNECTION is a ongoing collaboration we initiated with Hirokawa New Edition, a creative hub located in the town of Hirokawa (Japan), operating in the textile field. As Lottozero, it is located at the heart of a historical textile district, where coexist artisanal textile traditions and industrial productions.

Through an online exchange seminars we will present our textile production areas, best sustainable practices, local traditions and handcrafts creations, aiming to create a bridge between the two different textile districts, which are geographically and culturally distant, by introducing them to our creative hubs’ respective communities.

Supported by the Asia-Europe Foundation (ASEF)

SEMINAR I: Hirokawa, Japan (Language: Japanese with English translation)
20.09.2021, h 10.30 - 12.00 (digital event on Zoom platform)
The seminar held by Hirokawa New Edition is dedicated to the discovery of Kurume Kasuri, a cotton ikat textile, tied dye before being weaved. The Kurume Kasuri industry was established by the 1820s, especially around the towns and cities of Hirokawa, Chikugo, Yame. Along with the mass-produced, synthetical-dyed, machine-woven Kurume Kasuri, some studios keep using domestic indigo fermented in natural dye, hand-bundled threads, and handlooms to produce Kurume Kasuri as traditional crafts.

Speakers:
Aki Watanuki: Textile designer and cultural researcher for Hirokawa New Edition based in Kibiru Atelier in Hirokawa.
Koichi Moriyama: artist/craftsman who runs Ai-Moriyama, a Japanese workshop of Kurume Kasuri that has been in operation since 1858.
Yasuhiro Ota: professor of the Faculty of Economics at Tokuyama University in Japan, presenting cases of innovative and sustainable Japanese textile companies.

SEMINAR II: Prato, Italy (Language: English with Japanese translation)
23.09.2021, h 10.30 - 12.00 (digital event on Zoom platform)
The seminar held by Lottozero focuses on fashion and textile production, providing knowledge to understand consumption and production models, materials, and processes within fashion and design. The seminar gives a theoretical overview on these aspects complemented with virtuoso examples of successful processes and products taken from the Prato textile district (such as the regeneration process of wool) and Lottozero's current projects.

Speakers:
Arianna Moroder: Co-founder and creative director of Lottozero.
Margaux Minodier: French textile artist and designer, currently collaborating with Lottozero on the "Circular Wool" project, which aims to transform a waste material (wool from local dairy sheep farms) into a circular textile raw material.

HOW TO PARTICIPATE:
Free participation. Registration is required through this link.
After registration, in the following days, participants will receive the link to join the session on the Zoom platform.

We hope to see you all there!

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Sostieni Lottozero donando il 5 per mille della tua imposta IRPEF. Nella sezione “Destinazione del cinque per mille” seleziona la voce Sostegno delle organizzazioni non lucrative di utilità sociale e inserisci il codice fiscale di Lottozero: 02855050213.

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Support Lottozero by donating 5 per thousand of your IRPEF tax. In the section "Destination of the five per thousand" select the item Support of non-profit organizations of social utility and enter the tax code of Lottozero: 02855050213.

We're very pleased to share the Ambassadors of change's platform with you.

This platform is a P2P tool that facilitates the showcasing of 14 tested methods and good practices of creative hubs like ours,  that were selected by Creative FLIP as a response to the challenges that the pandemic brought. 

Search through a selection of inspiring initiatives that occurred during the COVID-19 pandemic and ask for more information or book a session with one of us!

We are very happy to announce our first collaboration with Vijion Art Gallery in Ortisei (BZ).

On the 25th of June 2021, we will present an exhibition with several artists who have collaborated with us since 2016 during residencies, research projects, and special productions.
Art and Textile. A Selection by Lottozero presents a wide range of possibilities for working with textile materials through the languages of sculpture, photography, ceramics, installation, and painting, pushing forward our exploration of the relationship between textiles and contemporary art.

With: Roland Barth, Marie Ilse Bourlanges, Robin-Darius Dolatyari-Dolatdoust, Stefanie Kägi, Elena Khurtova, Claudia Losi, Anna M. Rose, Farkhondeh Shahroudi, Luca Vanello, Virginie Rebetez.
Curated by Alessandra Tempesti

Vijion Art Gallery, Pontives 26, Ortisei (BZ)
Opening 25/06/2021, 18.00
Exhibition period: 26/06-04/08/2021
Opening hours: Mondays to Sundays 16.00– 19.00 (or by appointment)

Lottozero is launching the Lottozero Directory, a carefully selected list of sustainable designers, artisans and small brands, chosen for their high design value: brands that propose innovative and sustainable solutions for materials, processes, business models and customer experience, which make them catalysts of change and revolutionaries for the fashion and retail system.

The Directory is designed to facilitate exchanges and relationships within the Lottozero community, to offer everyone concrete and immediate alternatives to fast fashion and to bring as many people as possible to responsible consumption, making this choice a habit rather than an exception. Check it out here...

This project is part of CambiaModa project by Mani Tese, supported by Aics Cooperazione.

i-Portunus, the international mobility project founded by Creative Europe, has launched an open call for artists, creators and cultural professionals active in the field of cultural heritage, aimed at international collaboration and production oriented residencies.

As we have recently received in donation a wonderful collection of historical jacquard fabrics, we would like to invite designers and artists from abroad to apply to the call with a residency project based on this collection, that is part of the Archive of the textile company Texnova, consisting of precious woven fabrics designed and produced since the end of the ‘30s and ‘40s.
Other parts of the Archive have been donated to Istituto Buzzi and the Textile Museum of Prato.

If you are interested in the project, we will be happy to give you more information about the Archive.
Applications have to be made via i-Portunus website, following this link.
Deadline to apply is 15 April, 2021.
Residencies fee should be entirely covered by i-Portunus support.

We will be happy to review your projects in advance and help with invitation letters!

We are excited to announce that we have been selected by ECHN as one of the 15 creative hubs around Europe for the Creative Flip project called Learning Labs.

Each hub will collaborate with an educational institution to encourage the creation and diffusion of new skills.

Our educational partner is  MADE Program and together we are developing a heritage design workshop that can be administered to all kinds of students in the creative field and that has the ambition to render archives a common and easily accessible creative tool.
We will be working with our in-house archives but we are looking forward to work on archives all over the world!

Lottozero Open Club has come to an end and we are very happy with the outcome! Many of you participated, both old friends and new, many of whom came from far away.

We shared knowledge, experiences, research, ideas and opinions with you and with some of the protagonists of the textile district of Prato and beyond. We started a dialogue with professionals of different ages, backgrounds, areas of intervention, working methods and points of view.

This to us, is the true meaning of sharing, and our favorite way to cultivate this great passion that unites us, textiles, creating connections capable of generating innovation and continuous exchange.

Here you can find the recordings of the online events realized in collaboration with the Textile Museum of Prato and Associazione Ex-Allievi Istituto Buzzi.

While we wait to be able to plan new activities again, we would like to hear from you. Please take the time to complete this survey, and let us know what kind of events and workshops you would like to attend at Lottozero in the future.

We're excited to announce that for the second time we are participating in the Creative Flip, P2P exchange program between creative hubs.

This time, we are exchanging practices, knowledge and expertise with Romantso in Athens, and the main theme is weaving!  

Two members of our communities, one from each hub, textile designer and weaver Alexandra Bissa from Romantso and textile artist and weaver Cristina Mariani, will exchange pictures of both our cities, draw inspiration through them, create a 4-color palette and weave a 20x20cm piece.

Due to Covid-19 we will be doing it all online and we challenge you to participate!! Select one of the two color palettes and prepare a drawing or weave a 20 cm x 20 cm piece. Post it on your social media and tag us so we can share your project later in January!

Creative's Flip P2P is co-funded by the European Union, led by the Goethe Institute and partnered up by European Creative Hubs Network.

Due to the health emergency situation and ongoing social distancing museums and exhibitions are still closed, but we would like to invite you from afar to joins us for a closer look to our current exhibition.

About ABOUT A WORKER it’s a solo exhibition focused on the design research and social approach of About A Worker, young and emerging French duo, founded by Kim Hou and Paul Boulenger in 2017.

In collaboration with Center for Contemporary Art Luigi Pecci on the occasion of Kim Hou’s residency at Lottozero, the exhibition is a chance to retrace About A Worker’s four previous collections, in which workwear becomes a field of experimentation and creativity for meaningful fashion design.

With the support of Comune di Prato.
Technical Sponsor: NGW group, Ditta Turi Marcello