Assemblage Worldwide is redefining sustainable development. We unite the world’s most forward-thinking innovators, NGOs, universities, and stakeholders to drive real change in production and design. By sharing knowledge and exchanging expertise, we craft solutions that not only address today’s challenges but pave the way for a more sustainable tomorrow.
Together, we’re transforming industries, elevating communities, and building a future where sustainability is the standard, not the exception.
Our Work
Assemblage Workshop: Eunice Pais on how fashion photography can be an ethical practice
So grateful to have collaborated with Eunice Pais -multidisciplinary artist and founder of PAIS Agency – for our latest Assemblage Workshop!
Eunice invited students from AMD Düsseldorf into a digital dialogue around two deceptively simple (and deeply important) questions:
Can fashion photography be an ethical practice?
Can photography be a partner in sustainability?
The session unfolded through collaborative phases of mapping, brainstorming, and collective reflection. Students created small manifestos and visual maps envisioning what an ecologically just practice might look like — one that includes humans, materials, and non-humans alike.
Funded by Engagement Global and Brot für die Welt
Assemblage Workshop: From Kantamanto to Global Change with Yayra Agbofah
We recently hosted an inspiring workshop with AMD Akademie Mode & Design in Düsseldorf, featuring Yayra Agbofah of the Revival! During the workshop, Yayra shared these insights with students in Germany, sparking conversations and experiments to rethink fashion systems and translate ideas into actionable solutions for sustainable fashion.
A huge thank you to Prof. Dr. Daniela Goeller for making this collaboration possible!
Funded by Engagement Global and Brot für die Welt
Assemblage Vol. 2- Workshops
Assemblage Workshop is a digital format where ideas become action. It brings together students, designers, and thinkers from diverse disciplines and continents to experiment and reflect on solutions to social and ecological challenges in fashion and design.
At its heart is the practice of assembling – creating meaningful dialogue between different perspectives, geographies, and areas of expertise. The workshops go beyond lectures, functioning as living laboratories where participants explore how creativity can repair systems, shift hierarchies, and generate ethical and regenerative practices.
Through digital collaboration, Assemblage bridges the Global North and South, enabling exchanges that are both reflective and actionable. Participants map challenges, brainstorm solutions, and develop creative interventions that translate insight into tangible impact.
The workshop format models sustainability, reducing travel while fostering intimacy, accountability, and shared responsibility. Assemblage demonstrates that care, imagination, and collaboration are not abstract ideals – they are strategies and practices that can shape the future of fashion and design management.
Funded by Engagement Global and Brot für die Welt
Assemblage Journal, Vol. 2: Vision to Practice, is now live.
Workshop – Beyond Fast Fashion @Media Design University
In collaboration with Yayra Agbofah of Revival and the Media Design University we curated a transformative lecture series centered on sustainable practices, the environmental impact of the textile industry, and the potential for global partnerships. The goal was to foster a dynamic workshop environment that brought together insights from industry professionals across the Global South. This cross-cultural exchange enriched the students’ learning experience, inspiring them to view collaboration as an essential tool for driving sustainable transformation in the textile sector.
Funded by Engagement Global and Stiftung Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt
Assemblage Journal – Vol.1
The first volume of Assemblage Journal focuses on West African creatives who are redefining sustainability in the fashion industry. By offering a nuanced perspective on how traditional practices and cultural values are reshaping fashion’s environmental and social challenges, the journal is a bold challenge to mainstream narratives.
The journal features visionary designers and artists such as Awameite Design,Emmy Kasbit, Lagos Space Programme, and Zohra Opoku, whose innovative work is transforming fashion practices in the Global South. The interviews with these creatives limelights the ways they are fusing heritage, culture, and sustainable practices, presenting fresh, impactful solutions to the industry’s pressing challenges.
Assemblage Journal serves as a platform for amplifying these voices, connecting global fashion ecosystems, and offering readers new insights into sustainable practices. The first volume is not just a publication; it’s a call to action to rethink the future of fashion in a way that is diverse, culturally informed, and sustainable.
Funded by Engagement Global and Stiftung Menschenwürde und Arbeitswelt
Conference – De Fashioning Education @The Digital Multilogue Berlin
We are excited to be part of the conference De-Fashioning Education in Berlin and share our research on non-western perspectives that shift perspectives in fashion, and create important conversations about new approaches and perspectives in a still western dominated field.
De-Fashioning Education is an open access conference, a collaborative contemplative space to consider contradictions and develop shared action. It invites us to re-imagine how we can learn for interexistence and interbeing – fashion education for the pluriverse.
More to de fashioning education conference
Learning Laboratory x Assemblage Worldwide @UdK Berlin – Universität der Künste Berlin
Assemblage Worldwide will be part of the Learning Laboratory and share the research ‚Shape Shifter‘. The research Shape Shifter focuses on perspectives and stories that actively shift perspectives in fashion, and create important conversations about new approaches and perspectives in a still western dominated field.
More to the Learning Laboratory
Partnership with The Revival, Ghana
We are so excited to announce we’ve partnered with The Revival, Ghana.Our goal: Increase collaborative projects that will support sustainable networks, increase educating, and create awareness about fashion waste and the impact on the global south.
THE REVIVAL is a community-led sustainable design non-profit educating, creating awareness, art and jobs with up-cycled global textile waste coming to Ghana.
Workshop – Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion @Fashion Council Germany
Assemblage Worldwide offers a variety of workshops for students, designers and fashion experts that are interested in sustainable solutions in fashion.
“Global Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion“ focuses on global creatives and their efforts to reduce the negative effects of fashion production and consumption. Accompanied with photographs and videos of creative works the workshop limelight innovations of designers in the context of local, cultural and environmental concerns.
Panel – Exploring Up-Cycling in a Digital Age @Berlin Fashion Week
Thank you to 500KG CO2 for inviting us as panel member. The Future of Upcycling in a Digital Age, is an official Berlin Fashion Week format. During this one-day event, the co-created influencer collection “500KG CO₂” is presented through an immersive exhibition. Fusing VR, AR, independent fashion designers and influencers, experience the newest innovations in tech and upcycling.
Publication – Fashioning the Future @Guggenheim Bilbao
Assemblage Worldwide x Guggenheim Bilbao
It was great to be part of this great publication and contribute with our research and essay „Fashioning the Future“. The Publication showcased the work of over 120 artists and designers from the continent and focuses on a generation of entrepreneurs, thinkers, and designers from and within Africa who address a global audience and provide the world with a new vantage point on their continent.