Transferring the CreativeWear Model across the Mediterranean

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CreativeWear Plus builds on the results of the MED CreativeWear project (2016-2019), which brought a new attention to creativity, personalised design, and artisan and small-scale production for territorially specific value chains for the Textile & Clothing (T&C) industry. Five Creative Hubs brought together artists, designers, and creatives with T&C businesses in Italy, Spain, Slovenia and Greece. Experimentation with different interaction formats led to a common CreativeWear Model, whose transfer capacity was tested by extension to seven new Creative Hubs through an Open Call in 2018 and by incorporation into the H2020 TCBL (https://tcbl.eu/) network of innovation Labs in 2019.In CreativeWear Plus, three original partners from Italy and Greece pair up with three new Hubs in Portugal, France and Bosnia to further extend the CreativeWear network. A specific focus on sustainable fashion in the Circular Economy aims to highlight the contribution of Mediterranean creativity, design heritage and T&C knowledge to green innovation.The work plan sees each new Hub paired with a partner from the original project to apply the CreativeWear Model in the initial steps of building local communities and launching a first set of events in project month 6. The second phase involves deeper transnational cooperation and knowledge exchange, culminating in the project’s final event in month 13. Network sustainability is again ensured within the TCBL Foundation’s network of innovation labs.

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