Dr Philippa Notten | Insights from Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) on sustainable and circular textiles

Dr Philippa Notten | Insights from Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) on sustainable and circular textiles

Dr Philippa Notten from The Green House, a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expert, presents this keynote from the 2025 Africa Textile Talks, explaining how LCAs work and why they matter. She shares surprising insights from studying the full value chain of a product, explores the opportunities and trade-offs of reuse and sharing models, and highlights the challenges of textile recycling. Whether you’re a designer, policy maker, or simply curious about sustainable fashion, this talk offers a systems view of textiles and the role LCAs can play in building a circular future.

Leandi Mulder | A new approach to fashion education in South Africa

Fashion designer and educator Leandi Mulder shares her journey from discovering forgotten looms in a university storeroom to shaping a new approach to fashion education in South Africa. In this talk, she highlights the need to move from an aesthetic-based to a textile-based design approach. When students know the origin of their fibres, they design differently and more sustainably. Leandi explores how working with natural fibres has transformed her own practice and how the Design Academy of Fashion (DAF) is rebuilding a hands-on, fibre-first curriculum. This talk was recorded on Day Two of Africa Textile Talks: WoolCycle, presented with Cape Wools SA.

Yayra Agbofah | Fighting fashion waste in Kantamanto Market

In this episode, we hear from Yayra Agbofah, founder of The Revival and winner of the H&M Foundation’s Global Change Award. From Accra’s Kantamanto Market, he’s taking on the influx of secondhand clothing waste arriving from the global north. Yayra shares how his organisation, The Revival, tackles textile waste, upcycles garments, creates jobs, and builds community. We hear about the fire that devastated Kantamanto Market, how the community came together to rebuild, and his vision for making the market the world’s first truly circular fashion hub. Tune in to discover how local action in Ghana is reshaping the global conversation on fashion waste.

Maria Caley | From leather to trade cloth

In our first podcast, you can listen to Maria Caley’s keynote from Africa Textile Talks 2025. Maria is a lecturer at the University of Namibia, and her talk was titled From leather to trade cloth: Namibian indigenous aesthetic politics in textiles Follow Twyg on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/twygmag/]. Jingle courtesy of Jane Rademeyer.