Cooperation between IAGF & Textiles Center Haslach in the SYMCRAFT project
As part of SYMCRAFT, the IAGF and the Textile Center Haslach (TZH) are working closely together with the aim of rethinking industrial textile waste as a resource and developing innovative application ideas.
Continuous exchange: digital and on-site
A key success factor here is our regular dialog and continuous exchange: we meet regularly online to coordinate further and intermediate steps and come together in physical meetings to ensure a direct exchange.
Highlight: Expert workshop in March 2025
A special milestone was the three-day expert workshop held at the TZH from March 15 to 17, 2025. Seven selected designers worked intensively with textile production waste provided by 20 Austrian companies.
The aim was not only to analyze material properties and potential uses, but also to develop specific transformation ideas: How can industrial waste be prepared, processed and reused?
The first conceptual approaches for prototypes were developed in this creative workshop atmosphere. This showed once again how important it is to combine digital exchange and practical work on site.
Editorial meeting in September 2025
A personal working meeting was also held at the Textile Center Haslach on September 4, 2025. The aim was to jointly develop the content for an article about the TZH in Denkmal heute magazine (published by the Federal Monuments Office), with the SYMCRAFT project providing an important link. In this way, the cooperation between the IAGF and TZH in the Interreg project is presented to a wider public.
Outlook: Moving further into the future together
We will continue this intensive collaboration in the coming months: the next SYMCRAFT online workshop is scheduled for October 22, 2025. The product ideas developed in Haslach in March will be further refined and fleshed out. The meeting will also serve to draw conclusions from the intensive network and expert exchange in March: Which approaches have particular potential? Where have collaborations emerged and what are the next steps? In this way, the arc is drawn from the physical meetings back into the digital space - and cooperation in the transnational network is consistently continued.