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Drawing of Waag house in Bolzano city centre
Paula Raché

Event type On-site Event

LocationWAAG house, Piazza del Grano 12, Bolzano (main location)

Departments CC Sustainability

Contact Aart van Bezooijen
Aart.vanBezooijen@unibz.it

21 Apr - 25 Apr 2026

Fashion For Future 2026

Join us at the 4th edition of Fashion For Future, a participatory festival for fashion, sustainability, and social change in South Tyrol.

Event type On-site Event

LocationWAAG house, Piazza del Grano 12, Bolzano (main location)

Departments CC Sustainability

Contact Aart van Bezooijen
Aart.vanBezooijen@unibz.it

Fashion for Future is a participatory festival for fashion, sustainability, and social change in South Tyrol. Through exhibitions, workshops, and interventions, it makes fair fashion tangible and invites people to actively contribute to shaping a more just future.

From April 21 to 25 you will discover our highlights in Bolzano including a thought-provoking exhibition at the WAAG house, inspiring open talks, interactive workshops at unibz, local studio visits, a swap party and a fashion show focused on second hand and fair trade!

This year's festival is organised by

  • Annalena Egger, OEW – Organization for a Solidary World
  • Brigitte Gritsch, World Shops South Tyrol
  • Susanne Barta, Journalist and Slow Fashion Expert
  • Aart van Bezooijen, unibz – Faculty of Design and Art

Kindly supported by

  • the Competence Centre for Sustainability of unibz
  • the Autonomous Province of Bolzano/Bozen – South Tyrol
  • the Austrian Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture
  • the University of Applied Arts Vienna
  • the European Union and the Austrian Cultural Forum Milan

For more information and registrations please visit: fashionforfuture.bz.it

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