KYOTO Design Lab Textiles Summer School 2019
Structure, Surface, Scenario – new technologies, old challenges > old materials, new challenges

Period: August 19 – 30, 2019 (August 25 free)
Venue: KYOTO Design Lab, Kyoto Institute of Technology (KIT), Matsugasaki, Kyoto + Kyoto Institute of Technology, Kyotango Campus

Collaborating Partners
Royal College of Art (RCA)
University of the Arts London (UAL)
Design Academy Eindhoven(DAE)
Kyoto Saga University of the Arts
Kyoto Prefectural Institute for Northern Industry
Organizing committee for the 300 th anniversary of TANGO CHIRIMEN Textile
Nissha

About the Summer School
The KYOTO Design Lab Textiles Summer School is an ongoing collaboration with designers, textile engineers and materials scientists from Japan and overseas. It combines in-depth study, field research and workshops with traditional and experimental textile producers in the Tango Peninsula and a five-day hands-on prototyping-based design workshop using the advanced workshop facilities of KYOTO D-Lab led by Dr Sara Roberston (RCA)*, Kangan Arora (Central Saint Martins, UAL) and Professor Julia Cassim (D-lab). The aim is to foster long-term creative and technical collaboration between all parties and simultaneously gain new insights into how traditional skills and new technologies can be merged.
*Dr Sara Robertson will be on maternity leave during the period of the Textiles Summer School 2019 and has nominated Mika Satomi of KOBAKANT to replace her.

Schedule
The summer school takes place in the Tango Peninsula and in Kyoto. After a two-day orientation and workshop session at KYOTO Design Lab, participants will leave on a 4-day study tour to different weaving firms in Tango, including one-day workshops at Kyoto Prefectural Institute for Northern Industry (Textile Research Centre) and at KIT’s KyoTango campus with local textile producers. Returning to Kyoto, a 5-day design workshop at KYOTO Design Lab will be organised in collaboration with the Department of Advanced Fibro Science and the Department of Bio-Based Materials at KIT. The summer school will also include lectures and demonstrations by textile, materials and print specialists in relation to the overall workshop theme of: Structure, Surface, Scenario – new technologies, old challenges > old materials, new challenges

Who can participate?
Designers of all disciplines, textile and materials engineers, textile producers, interested parties.

What are their respective roles?
D-lab will be the main project organiser for the contents, logistics and organisation of the summer school at KIT and KIT KyoTango campus.
KyoTango City and the Kyoto Prefectural Institute for Northern Industry will facilitate the visits to textile producers and their participation in workshops in KyoTango.

Accommodation and Transport in Japan
Overseas participants will be required to fund their own air tickets, daily subsistence expenses and accommodation while in Japan. KYOTO Design Lab has secured an attractive preferential discount rate offered by Hostel NINIROOM for participants during the summer school period (18-31 August).
When applying to D-lab for the summer school, participants should indicate whether they wish to stay at Hostel NINIROOM and must then use the TSS booking code supplied by D-lab to make their reservation directly to NINIROOM at email: info@niniroom.jp by April 12, 2019 after you are accepted as a participant of the programme (same discount rate is applicable to extra nights right before and after workshop if rooms are available). It is strongly advised that you stay here given the room shortage and high prices at this time of year in Kyoto and its ideal central location. For the 10 nights required for the summer school (18-20 & 24-30 August), the average cost will be about 26,000 JPY per person. The types of room will be assigned by NINIROOM*.
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*Cancellation policy of NINIROOM for the summer school will be different from NINIROOM’s general policy. TSS participants, who wish to stay at NINIROOM will be informed of this at the time of booking.
In Kyotango, all participants will stay at KIT’s Kyotango campus accommodation for which there is no charge but coach transport to and from Kyoto and within KyoTango will cost approximately 12,000 JPY per person.

Workshop fee and materials
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All participants except KIT students
10,000 yen material fee ＋ 30,000 yen participation fee ＋ Accommodation cost in Kyoto city (if you are from outside of Kyoto and need accommodation) ＋ Travelling cost within Kyoto city and Kyotango ＋ Transport cost to and from Japan (if you are traveling from overseas)
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KIT students
10,000 yen material fee ＋ Travelling cost within Kyoto city and Kyotango

See a report on the 2017 Textiles Summer School here
» Report: KYOTO Design Lab Textiles Summer School – Part of the Workshop at KYOTO Design Lab

To Apply
If you are interested in taking part, please send your full contact details, a short biography and description of your interest in the project and what you can contribute to it. Designers should send a PDF portfolio of their work. The application deadline for overseas participants is March 31 and June 30 for Japan-based ones. Due to numbers, early application is advised and preference will be given to those who were unable to take part in 2018. Applicants staying at the Hostel NINIROOM will be informed before the April 12 deadline.
*Applications from overseas have been closed.

Contact
For any queries relating to the summer school please contact julia-cassim@kit.ac.jp (English) or info@133.16.196.65
Kyoto Institute of Technology
1, Hashikami-cho
Matsugasaki, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, 606-8585
Japan