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Pop-up Atelier Europa

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Fashion inspires the future of Europe

In the Pop-up Atelier Europa of Studio Europa Maastricht and FASHIONCLASH, 10 promising young European fashion designers work together to develop various creations within one week. They do this from a glass house at Mosae Forum from 2 to 8 December. Visitors can discover how fashion shapes visions and stories about Europe. On Sunday 8 December the masterpieces will be unveiled during the Maastricht Europe Days closing show in the Eiffel building in Maastricht.

Designers from countries like England, Finland, Ukraine, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Serbia and Russia will get inspired by the Dress to Protest workshops that were organized earlier this year for young people from the Euregion.
This group of ten creatives from very diverse backgrounds will translate their experiences from home, their personal creative visions as well as their encounters during their week in Maastricht, into a 'European collection'.
The results will be translated in a joint Europe Collection and will be presented in cooperation with young performing artists.

On Sunday 8th of December, everyone is welcome to join for the closing ceremony at Eiffelgebouw of the Maastricht Europe Days where the designers will be presenting their creations.
-> 16:30 - 18:00 at Eiffelgebouw

Maastricht Europe Days
Pop-up Atelier Europa is part of the Maastricht Europe Days, a three-day program about the future of Europe, elaborated in 25 events such as debates, theatre performances, workshops, exhibitions and debates.

The Maastricht Europe Days are organized by Studio Europa Maastricht organised as part of the Maastricht, Working on Europe program, set up in 2018 by the province, municipality and university. Last year the Maastricht Europe Days experienced their first edition, this year the program has been extended to three days with more than 25 events and activities.

The full program of the Maastricht Europe Days 2019 can be found on the website: www.maastrichteuropedays.nl.

DESIGNERS

Beatrice Sangster (UK)
Benedetta Marcucci (Italy)
Julia Montin (Finland)
Kateryna Boiko (Ukraine)
Maria Ossaba (Belguim)
Marko Feher (Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Michelle Cornelissen (Netherlands)
Nevena Ivanović (Serbia)
Julina Bezold (Switzerland)
Yana Monk (Russia)

Dress to Protest

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With Dress to Protest, FASHIONCLASH and STUDIO EUROPA are calling on young people to participate in design workshops that bring people from different backgrounds together to exchange ideas about Europe. With the imaginative power of fashion, they shape their visions and personal stories about Europe.

What do young people think about Europe and today's challenges? Dress to Protest does not literally call for protest, but in a playful way it focuses on awareness that the clothing we wear tells, consciously and unconsciously, something about our identity, values and norms. The project makes a connection with the verbal and non-verbal communication strength of fashion. Fashion as a means to tell stories, to represent personal identity, to share visions and to put urgent issues on the agenda. Because fashion as a second skin tells your environment what relationship you want to have with it and at the same time shows what your heart beats for.

Dress to Protest uses fashion as a beautiful instrument to actually mean something in the debate on political, humanistic and social issues in Europe. Can we use the power of the concept of Europe for a peaceful and inclusive world?

Based at Studio Europa in the heart of the city, Maastricht, Working on Europe tackles key European themes on a daily basis. We want to position the Limburg capital as the place to be for citizen dialogue and debate on Europe. In short, a workplace for a better Europe, for everyone.

Underpinned by an interdisciplinary research agenda and the European Heritage Label project, we aim to create a Centre of Excellence with stimulating and thought-provoking year-round events open to all.

Maastricht, Working on Europe is a joint program of the Province of Limburg, the City of Maastricht and the University of Maastricht.

Dress to Protest is a collaboration between FASHIONCLASH and STUDIO EUROPA.