Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives #14

Wednesday, October 14, 2015, 7 pm
The City’s old Clothes
with Heike Derwanz (ethnologist and art researcher, HafenCity University Hamburg)

In the autumn program of Stadtkuratorin Hamburg the series Stadtgespräch. Metropolitan Perspectives will be continued. On October 14, 2015, at 7 pm the series starts with the note The City’s old Clothes by ethnologist and art researcher Heike Derwanz from Hamburg. Second hand was yesterday, Primark is today. In the streets of Hamburg there are tons of worn-out clothes, charity bins are overflowing as well as more recently the places for the distribution of clothes for refugees. Nobody really wants to wear old clothes. What options are there to reuse worn out clothes besides donation or dumpster? Heike Derwanz presents these and other everyday practices with clothes and critically highlights the social and individual approach to the legacy of old clothes.

Heike Derwanz is a ethnologist and art researcher and wrote her PhD thesis about the careers of street-art artists on the art and design market. At HafenCity University Hamburg she researches the sustainable use of clothes and coordinates the project Low-Budget-Urbanity. On the transformation of the urban in times of austerity.