2 hrs 9 min
Episode 3 - DR NOKI: Custom Build Sub-cultures of Sustainability Shapers of Society
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- Society & Culture
A 21st century remixed culture jam with Dr Noki.
........"I'd like to be part of the evolution of sustainability... to create a sub-culture called custom build"......Dr Noki
This episode introduces you to the world of Dr Noki, an intuitive customiser/DIY genius and anti- fashion activist/artist, re-knowned for his instinctive chopping up and remixing of brands to re-create hybrid and unique garments. Utilising remixing, cutting up and assemblage, re-inventing unique ways to present visual narratives, sustainable custom collages into textiles and clothing cultures. Our conversation travels back and re-connects forward to the sub-cultural roots and influences, from lived experiences across sub-cultures, music and art; from hip hop and early rave to artists movements such as Dadaists and the book Culture Jam – Kalle Lasn. Co-creating through our shared dialogue as a way inspire audiences to be empowered by alternatives ways forward for fashion and textiles sustainability.
Dr Noki shares his wisdoms, humour, empathy, and ingenuity in his translations in how he learnt to transcend and reinvent his own creative language, iconography, sub-cultures and new characters through empathy and creativity. From Fashion Monsters to initiating custom build subcultures - honing a visionary perspective of sustainability, rooted in autonomy and emerging into the Noki - BIY (Build It Yourself) clothing sub-cultures. Dr Noki exchanges his unique and genius approach when responding to the rag pile, using landfill as resources to re-assemble and re-invent what exists. To inspire a new generation of custom-built sub-cultures for a 21st century collage of the future.
Finding the positive in the landfill mountain, using instinct and intuition, he flips the rag pile in true Dr Noki style of reinvention to create ‘landfill drops’ and in the process reducing the ‘landfill up’. His school NESTT (Noki Education of Sustainable Textiles and Technology) encourages autonomy through the custom build sub-cultures, whilst nurturing ‘post-code customisers’ and ‘bedroom ateliers’. Industry collaborations with brands such as Adidas, Katharine Hamnett and more recently the NX4S with Andy Murphy. Always re-inventing new ways of using Dr Noki visual vocabulary and in turn re-turns deadstock into ‘up fusions’ as re-invention to breathe new life into leftovers.
The Dr Noki episode collages a mash up of life's creative experiences, reconstructing and reinventing destruction to respond positively to what exists, injecting new narrative’s, processes, and subcultures. Listen in and be part of the evolution of sustainability and join the sustainable ‘custom build’ subcultural movement.
You can find Dr Noki on the following channels or join him at the NESTT (Noki Education of Sustainable Textiles and Technology) and become part of the 'custom build' community to create 21st century ideas around sustainability.
Instagram: @nokiofficial
Tiktok: @nokizine
Website: www.nokishop.com
Keep up to date on latest releases and forthcoming plans for Shapers of Society podcast, press the button and subscribe. If you have any questions or interested in being featured on the show. Email: we@shapersofsociety.org or follow on Instagram.
A 21st century remixed culture jam with Dr Noki.
........"I'd like to be part of the evolution of sustainability... to create a sub-culture called custom build"......Dr Noki
This episode introduces you to the world of Dr Noki, an intuitive customiser/DIY genius and anti- fashion activist/artist, re-knowned for his instinctive chopping up and remixing of brands to re-create hybrid and unique garments. Utilising remixing, cutting up and assemblage, re-inventing unique ways to present visual narratives, sustainable custom collages into textiles and clothing cultures. Our conversation travels back and re-connects forward to the sub-cultural roots and influences, from lived experiences across sub-cultures, music and art; from hip hop and early rave to artists movements such as Dadaists and the book Culture Jam – Kalle Lasn. Co-creating through our shared dialogue as a way inspire audiences to be empowered by alternatives ways forward for fashion and textiles sustainability.
Dr Noki shares his wisdoms, humour, empathy, and ingenuity in his translations in how he learnt to transcend and reinvent his own creative language, iconography, sub-cultures and new characters through empathy and creativity. From Fashion Monsters to initiating custom build subcultures - honing a visionary perspective of sustainability, rooted in autonomy and emerging into the Noki - BIY (Build It Yourself) clothing sub-cultures. Dr Noki exchanges his unique and genius approach when responding to the rag pile, using landfill as resources to re-assemble and re-invent what exists. To inspire a new generation of custom-built sub-cultures for a 21st century collage of the future.
Finding the positive in the landfill mountain, using instinct and intuition, he flips the rag pile in true Dr Noki style of reinvention to create ‘landfill drops’ and in the process reducing the ‘landfill up’. His school NESTT (Noki Education of Sustainable Textiles and Technology) encourages autonomy through the custom build sub-cultures, whilst nurturing ‘post-code customisers’ and ‘bedroom ateliers’. Industry collaborations with brands such as Adidas, Katharine Hamnett and more recently the NX4S with Andy Murphy. Always re-inventing new ways of using Dr Noki visual vocabulary and in turn re-turns deadstock into ‘up fusions’ as re-invention to breathe new life into leftovers.
The Dr Noki episode collages a mash up of life's creative experiences, reconstructing and reinventing destruction to respond positively to what exists, injecting new narrative’s, processes, and subcultures. Listen in and be part of the evolution of sustainability and join the sustainable ‘custom build’ subcultural movement.
You can find Dr Noki on the following channels or join him at the NESTT (Noki Education of Sustainable Textiles and Technology) and become part of the 'custom build' community to create 21st century ideas around sustainability.
Instagram: @nokiofficial
Tiktok: @nokizine
Website: www.nokishop.com
Keep up to date on latest releases and forthcoming plans for Shapers of Society podcast, press the button and subscribe. If you have any questions or interested in being featured on the show. Email: we@shapersofsociety.org or follow on Instagram.
2 hrs 9 min