The following Events are sponsored or co-sponsored by The Textile Institute. Just click on the event for additional information.

• 2008 18-21 November, Hong Kong

• 2008 May 15 -- Textile Institute Annual General Meeting, Manchester, UK
• 2008 May 20 -- ASBCI Annual Conference, Warwickshire, UK
• 2008 May 21 -- London SE Section Talk, London, UK
• 2008 July 2--- Design for Business Advantage, HM Treasury, Westminster, London
• 2008 October 27-28 -- Centre for Sustainable Fashion Conference 08, London

The Textile Institute
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2008

NOTICE is hereby given that the ninety-eighth Annual General Meeting of The Textile Institute will be held on

Thursday, 15 May 2008 at 11.00 hrs

in the 2nd Floor Board Room, St James's Buildings, Oxford Street, Manchester M1 6FQ, UK.

The agenda for the meeting is given below. All members are, invited to attend, but only Voting Members are entitled to vote.

If you expect to attend, it would be of considerable assistance if you let us know in advance.

D H Woolliscroft
Honorary Secretary
March 2008

AGENDA

1 To hear the notice convening the Meeting
2 To receive and adopt the Minutes of the Annual General Meeting held on 10 May 2007
3 To receive and adopt the Annual Report of Council for 2007
4 To receive and adopt the 2007 Financial Statements (including Statement of Financial Activities, Balance Sheet and Statement of Recognised Gains and Losses together with the related Audit Report)
5 To hear the President's Address
6 To declare the result of the election of Members to Council.
7 To appoint Prof SC Anand CText FTI MSc PhD AMCST MBE as Chairman of Council
8 To appoint Auditors

ASBCI Annual Meeting -- 20 May 2008

Brochure
Booking Form

Paul Fenne
BSc, CEng, Head of Physical Protection Group
Operational Technical Support Unit, Metropolitan Police Service.

Bullets v Textiles … Who wins?

Weapons using projectiles have been used for centuries, ranging from stones to arrows to bullets. Textiles have been optimized to provide protection from all these sorts of projectiles at various times in history in the development of personal armour schemes. Today, designing protection from the high velocity bullet is a significant problem. The talk will trace the history of this development and the success of modern personal armour schemes using textiles.

Paul worked in the UK MoD, at MVEE (Military Vehicles and Engineering Establishment) developing many different aspects of combat vehicle design from armour, weapon systems, battlefield survivability and ergonomics. In 1987 Paul joined the Met Police to run a team to develop the engineering aspects of design and procurement of physical protection solutions. This ranges from vehicle protection to body armor.

The Lecture Theatre, Room 022
London College of Fashion, Davis Street, London W1
Nearest tube - Bond Street

6.30pm for 7pm
Members (including SDC) and students free, Non-members £5

DESIGN FOR BUSINESS ADVANTAGE

HM Treasury, Westminster, London.

Wednesday July 2 nd 2008

The annual Fashion and Textile Design Exhibition, organised by the Design Special Interest Group (SIG) of The Textile Institute, will be held at HM Treasury on Wednesday July 2 nd 2008.

It is aimed at companies engaged in all aspects of the fashion and textile business. Leading Universities and Colleges will be showing the different ways they can assist companies to gain competitive advantage by utilising the design skills of their graduates, post graduates and current students.

This event, now in its third year, has gathered momentum as a unique contribution to the world of business and education, and is now firmly established in the annual calendar.

All companies in the fashion and textile business from manufacturing through to retail are invited to attend, and there is no fee for entry. However, to ensure you receive an invitation please contact Bill Bohm by email at billbohm@textileinstitute.org or by fax on 44 (0)20 7580 9535.

Student Competition

Centre for Sustainable Fashion Conference 08

‘Chuck it or keep it? Can fashion bring about a long term lifecycle change to move us towards a more sustainable economy and better lives?’

27-28 October 2008
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The Centre for Sustainable Fashion at London College of Fashion announces the ‘Chuck it or Keep it’ competition.

October 2008 will see the Centre for Sustainable Fashion stage it’s first conference, asking whether fashion can bring about a long term lifecycle change to move us towards a more sustainable economy and better lives. The conference will feature an evening reception and catwalk show to include a showcase of selected work from the ‘Chuck it or Keep it’ competition. This will showcase creative solutions to the issue of consumption and sustainability by students and graduates from across the world.

London College of Fashion are working with Fashioning an Ethical Industry to communicate the competition which will be judged by a panel of industry and media experts. All details will be available via the FEI website www.fashioninganethicalindustry.org

Outline

• Competition open to all students and graduates of colleges running FdA, BA and/or Postgraduate courses in fashion, accessories and footwear.
• Colleges that would like to take part must register their interest by 31 March 08.
• Each college may have up to 10 submissions. One submission may consist of a collection (if this is a collaborative project with a number of students working together), an outfit, a shoe or an accessory.
• Individual
• Final deadline of submissions will be Summer 08.
• Selected submissions will shown on the catwalk at the evening reception on 27 October 2008.

Brief

We are consuming a third more fashion than we were only four years ago, 90% of which is imported and over 1.2 million tons of which has goes to landfill each year. This insatiable appetite has catastrophic consequences in social and environmental terms both in the UK and around the world. The consumer demands better, faster, cheaper and value is seen in terms of quantity and rapid duplication of trend. How can we use design to create inspiring products whilst changing the current impact of our industry into a positive and sustainable model for our future?

Sustainable design presents opportunity, exploration, debate and a dynamic forward thinking approach to the creation and development of fashion products. Sustainability means different things to different people – we all have a part to play. Designers and product developers have a pivotal role in the development of a sustainable fashion economy through the impact of the decisions made in design travelling through the entire supply chain into use and ultimately to the disposal of those pieces. The aim of this competition is to design in a way that promotes consumption that is also sustainable. This may be considered in a variety of ways which may include:

User centred design, co-design, slow design, emotionally durable design, zero waste, sustainable materials and processes.

The process as well as the product is key to the development of collection / pieces and submissions will be considered in the context of both the development and the realisation of the work.

You are asked to consider new ways to design and make in one of the two following categories:

Materials Award : to cover selection, use and disposability of sustainable materials.

Innovation Award : to cover new technologies and / or preservation of traditional or cultural skills in design and production of fair and environmentally sound pieces.

Submission details to follow.

Prizes

Submissions will be selected to be shown on the catwalk at the evening reception, 27 October 08.

Winners to be announced and prizes awarded on the night:

• Innovation Award (GBP£1000 prize + GBP£500 runner up)

• Materials Award (GBP£1000 prize + GBP£500 runner up)

Finalists will show alongside commissioned pieces by designers who may include: Giles Deacon, Stella McCartney & Gary Harvey.

To register interest and be emailed updates please email your name, college & contact details to

n.baldwin@fashion.arts.ac.uk

Have your say!

We are constantly developing new events that benefit our members. We would like to hear from you or your company if you have a need for a particular subject to be covered through our conferences and events. Please contact us to have your say.

We are always updating our events calendar so for up to date details of all our events please visit regularly.

email us at SarahTinsley@andthekitchensink.com

or call us on 0845 22 55 807