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For Earth Day 2020 in the context of the climate emergency, award winning fashion designer Bethany Williams invites you to make a flag to pass on a message to our future generations, and consider what wisdom and legacy we’d like to pass on to those who come long after us.
Recognised for her systems led thinking, multi-award winning fashion designer Bethany Williams places environmental sustainability and social responsibility at the core of her creative practice. As part of this commission for 50th anniversary of Earth Day and in the context of climate emergency, Bethany invites audiences to reflect on themes of future generations and consider what wisdom and legacy we’d like to pass on to those who come long after us. The work connects ideas social and environmental justice both in the UK and further afield. What collective responsibility do have to protect ‘All Our Children’ who will bear the toughest of the environmental crisis’ in the years to come?
The research process and project will evolve over the next few months, beginning with DIY workshops inviting audiences to get involved at home during this period of lockdown due to covid-19. Future highlights of the project include the raising of a new flag above Somerset House and the physical and public launch of the new fashion collection later in the year.
Bethany works closely with different charities and social initiatives for each of her collections and as part of this project has been working together with the Magpie Project who support vulnerably housed women and young children in Newham, an area of London with some of the highest levels of homelessness in the country. Through working with Magpie Project Bethany discovered that many vulnerable mothers were told by different institutions that their children were not ‘our children’ to support and protect. This speaks to the political environment in the UK today but also translates as a metaphor for future generations. How collectively we expand our capacity to care about those most vulnerable within our society now both locally and globally. And how can nurturing that capacity to care and take action help us address the climate and ecological emergency into the future as well.
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