Re.Stance Panel: Ancestral Threads
Sunday, May 31 | 1 PM - 1:45 PM
$10 | General
$5 | Students & Textile Museum Members
Join us for an afternoon three-part panel series at the Textile Museum of Canada, presented by Re.Stance, exploring textile histories and cultural memory through ancestral knowledge, circular and regenerative design systems in practice, and future material innovation through decolonial thinking and biofabrication.
Panel 1 – Ancestral Threads – Decoding Textile Histories, Colonial Systems & Embedded Knowledge; 1:00-1:45 PM
Ancestral Threads explores textiles as living archives—carriers of memory, lineage, and encoded knowledge. Artists and designers reflect on translating ancestral practices into contemporary work without flattening or commodifying them.
The conversation examines authorship, cultural ownership, and the tension between preservation and evolution, while questioning how emerging technologies intersect with sacred and inherited systems. At its core, the panel asks: how can creative work restore agency and shape more culturally intelligent systems?
This programming is produced in collaboration with Re:Stance as part of the sustainable fashion symposium Temporality: A Love Letter to Gaia.
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