Prof. Bärbel Schmidt, Dr. Lucia Schwalenberg and a group of ten students of Department of Textile Design and History, Osnabruck University, Germany visited the University of Moratuwa on 8th of March 2018 for a collaborative workshop with Department of Integrated Design. Through a workshop series, students of Osnabruck and Level Two students of Department of Integrated Design exchanged their ideas and research findings about the Sri Lankan handloom industry and different loom-weaving practices. At the end of the workshops, an exhibition was arranged to present the group findings.
Main purposes of the visit were to conduct a comprehensive workshop series regarding fashion and Textile Design education and practices to build an initial discussion on academic and educational cooperation between the institutions to explore potential academic partnership agreements and collaborative activities.
