This workshop taught participants how to produce vegan leather from kombucha.

During this workshop, participants learnt how to make their own vegan leather from kombucha. They dried it, shaped it, and later they sewed it to create their own unique designs. Participants took a deep dive into kombucha’s huge potential as a textile and how to optimize it for comfortable wear. Since Fashion is the second most polluting industry in the world, we have to think of alternative ways to improve such an unsustainable industry. Microbial leather is a process of growing material to make clothes that had a low impact on the environment.

Ages: 18+

About the Artist:

An award-winning architectural engineer and Hi-Tech designer, Batool Al-Rushdan that recently won the “Distributed Design Awards”. In her practice, Batool merges technology, science & design, while approaching new design methodologies and creating projects that are connected to the people through sensors on their bodies or being rooted to their cultural foundation or highlighting environmental concerns from their land and places they live at.