What can a tie teach us about the time we live in?
Many questions. One object.
How do you tie a tie? Where does silk come from? Who wears power? Can we create more without producing more?
What happens when we make something together?
Tie School is a participatory art project exploring fashion, memory, power, sustainability and human connection through one ordinary object.
Part of Roses of Ties, Tie School is conceived as a living archive of our time – collecting ties, stories, memories and knowledge that might otherwise disappear.
At a time when loneliness and social isolation increasingly shape everyday life, making something together creates a simple reason to meet. Different generations, neighbours and people from different backgrounds gather around the same table — making, talking, sharing knowledge and listening to one another.
We learn from the object.
We learn from making.
We learn from each other.