{"id":535,"date":"2010-11-14T05:58:58","date_gmt":"2010-11-14T05:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=535"},"modified":"2010-11-14T06:09:34","modified_gmt":"2010-11-14T06:09:34","slug":"design-festival-sri-lanka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/?p=535","title":{"rendered":"Design Festival &#8211; Sri Lanka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1191.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-544\" title=\"Mt Lavinia\" src=\"http:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1191-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1191-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1191-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/IMG_1191.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Greetings from the beautiful island of Sri Lanka.<br \/>\nI have travelled to Colombo to attend the Sri Lanka Design Festival 2010. I am speaking on how information and communications technologies might support the design and fashion industries in the future while having an absolute minimal\u00a0impact on the environment.\u00a0<br \/>\nIn the words of the organisers: <em>&#8220;Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) 2010 is a unique Festival designed to promote Sri Lanka\u2019s creative and design industries, both traditional and contemporary, as well as the Sri Lankan apparel industry\u2019s incredible capabilities and creative strength on a global platform.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I am impressed by\u00a0the enthusiasm and drive of the design and fashion people here; and this, coupled with the emphasis on ethical sourcing and ethical consummerism makes it a unique event.<br \/>\n<em>&#8220;The Festival is equipped to engage both the Festival-going audience and the commercial visitor, with a range of workshops and talks in all fields of design- Graphic, Fashion, Jewellery and Interior \u2013 led by both international and local delegates&#8221;.<\/em>\u00a0\u00a0The government paper here this morning the\u00a0<em>Sunday Observer <\/em>talks about reviving the textile industry while maintaining a strong\u00a0&#8216;garments without guilt&#8217; approach &#8211; this entails legislation which the government is pleased to pass. The paper quotes Mr Rizad Bathiudeen Minister of Industrial Development and International Trade &#8220;The ethical sourcing and sustainable development practices in the garment industry aim to empower women and support their communities through poverty alleviation and offering opportunities for education and personal growth.&#8221;\u00a0<br \/>\nMore to follow on this excellent event and my experiences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greetings from the beautiful island of Sri Lanka. I have travelled to Colombo to attend the Sri Lanka Design Festival 2010. I am speaking on how information and communications technologies might support the design and fashion industries in the future while having an absolute minimal\u00a0impact on the environment.\u00a0 In the words of the organisers: &#8220;Sri [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=535"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":551,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535\/revisions\/551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandbox2.learnerinformatics.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}