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Making Mends Archive Vol.1
We created a photo-zine from a selection of many creative mends documented during the Making Mends workshops we hosted in the past three years! Making Mends Archives Vol.1 contains photos of 33 mending projects, 11 visible mending exercises, and 29 mended leaves from the over eleven Making Mends Workshops we’ve hosted in Japan, the Netherlands…
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Making Mends Kids @ MTRL KYOTO
What does it mean for something to break? Why do we repair? How do we repair? A playful workshop for children to think and learn about mending.
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Exhibition : Hoe leer ik jou kennen?
The past few months, I have been hosting Mending Evenings at Lola Lijn, a new buurtkamer (community center) in Sloterdijk, where many residents have recently moved into the area. The bi-monthly evenings were slow, quiet, and a lot of fun. Some residents came and went, and some became regulars. We were all strangers in the…
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Collection: Mending Evenings
Mending Evenings are casual get-togethers for repairing clothing and other textile items organised by volunteers. Stitchers and menders of all levels are welcome! It is a space for mutual learning and exploration.
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What is in our clothes? Making sense of textile materials @ VU
Dr Jane Tynan and Emma Huffman lead a hands-on activity to think about the textiles in our daily lives as part of the Conviviality, Fashion & Networking event at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
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Exhibition – Nieuwelingen 2025 @ Van Eesteren Museum (Landscaping in Fabric)
20 June – 6 July 2025 @ Van Eesteren Museum. Opening Friday, 20 June at 17:00
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Landscaping in Fabric Workshop
6 participants joined the workshop on a rainy day in Amsterdam. The outcomes of the workshop will be exhibited at the van Eesteren museum from the 20th of June.
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Movements of Gifting
How would you choreograph the movements of wrapping and unwrapping to make the experience special? I developed and facilitated a playful workshop in collaboration with PASKAMER.
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Visible Mending Workshop at ArtEZ Graphic Design
I led two days of Visible Mending workshops with ArtEZ Graphic Design students during the 2025 project month, CHANGE IS POWER.
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Visible Mending in de Doopsgezinde kerk
For the pop-up exhibition Heilige Huisjes by UtrechtDownUnder and FAAM.
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Exhibition – FUNGI FUTURES @ (Con)temporary Crafts Studio
Multiple objects and samples from the project “Mending with Mycelium“ were on show at (Con)temporary Crafts Studio in Bremen, DE for the exhibition FUNGI FUTURES. Photo by Philine von Düszeln
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Sneaker Repair and Maintenance Workshop by Footwear Care Lab
Designed and executed workshops on sneaker care and repair at Amsterdam House of Arts & Crafts.
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Making Mends Workshop in Almere
See the visual report – The English/Dutch edition of “Minna to Fuku wo Tsukuro” workshop held in Almere, Netherlands.
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Visible Mending Workshop @ Centraal Museum Utrecht
Commissioned by Crafting Resistance as part of the workshop series for the exhibition “Spuiten en stikken“.
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Making Mends – ミンナでフクをツクロウ in Tokyo
See the visual report – A visible mending workshop designed and hosted by Studio A-lot-of-things hosted with SIGHT SITE STUDIO (MIDORI.so, Bakuro Yokoyama).
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Visible Mending Workshop @ Museum Speelklok
I gave a visible mending workshops as part of the program for Maak ’t Even, an exhibition exploring sustainable production choices at Museum Speelklok in Utrecht, NL.
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Making Mends – Practices of care as a transformative research practice
A Making Mends workshop held in collaboration with Sanne Koevoets, DIT Platform of Erasmus University Rotterdam and Salot.
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STITCHING TOGETHER:Community Building through Sustainable Fashion
I was a speaker at the round table with Jane Tynan and Cloud Meijerand, and served as the visible mending workshop facilitator for an event hosted by VOX-POP, University of Amsterdam.
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ミンナでフクをツクロウ
See the visual report – A visible mending workshop designed and hosted by Studio A-lot-of-things hosted at Okamoto-Tei, Kyoto, Kyoto, JP.
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Visible Mending Workshop
Designed and facilitated monthly workshops on the history of Boro and visible mending at Mediamatic.
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Design for Circularity 01
Studio A-lot-of-things, Emma F Huffman and Danika van Kaathoven, designed and hosted a workshop aimed at Design students to learn and actively practice Circular Design Thinking. Learn more here
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The Kinjiya and Mycelium
Read here – A picture book of Kinjiya (co-mender) who mends sneakers with Mycelium and more beings. Developed during the research project Mending with Mycelium.
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Mending with Mycelium
Developing and exploring an alternative reality where we repair objects together with mycelium.
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Introduction to Visible Mending
A little book of my first attempts at visible mending and stories of my friends and their clothes.
