In the laboratory of the Kunstuni department “Fashion & Technology” on the fifth floor on construction A of the Linz tobacco factory, there is a lot of operation. In cooking pots, fabrics swim that the students want to color Peter Holzinger with natural means under the leadership of course manager Peter Holzinger. This attempt went wrong with student Maximilian Rossmann. He wanted to dye his fetzerl indigo blue, now it swims in a brown broth. While Rossmann stirs diligently, the two analyze the failed attempt.
1400 Kunstuni students
You have been studying fashion for ten years for ten years. At the open day there were insights into this and the other offers of the Linz Kunstuni on Wednesday. Twelve Bachelor, 14 master’s studies, a diploma course and a PHD program are available in the main square, Domgasse and in the tobacco factory. 1400 students from 60 countries are enrolled.
“Fashion and Technology” chose about 70 of them. “This is not a traditional fashion course,” explains Ute Ploier, who heads the department with Christiane Luible Bär. Linz focuses on what the future of fashion can look like. “We want to change something better in the fashion industry,” says Ploier. The new technologies are the tool for new solutions. Because: “The system of fashion harms the environment and everyone involved.” For example, the students try to produce algae yarns, color textiles with bacteria or to determine exact body dimensions by means of Bodyscans in order to produce fitting clothing for physically impaired.
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Image: Juliana Tasler
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