Creative practice

The Association of Fashion & Textile Courses (FTC) forthcoming conference Futurescan 4: Valuing Practice, provides an international forum for the dissemination of research, creative practice and pedagogy surrounding fashion and textiles. The conference will include keynote speaker presentations, full papers (20-minute presentations), short papers (10-minute presentations) and examples of practice-based work.

The theme of the symposium is community-centred research, demonstrating the key role that New Zealand’s institutes of technology and polytechnics (ITPs) play in ensuring that research has a tangible impact and benefits our communities. We will run a single-stream symposium with an associated exhibition, maximising opportunities for networking between researchers, industry and community stakeholders. Relationships: We need each other. Networks: We can help each other. Reciprocities: We can learn from each other. Obligations: We meet our commitments to each other.