Julia Labis

The aim of my final collection is to explore the connection between time and sustainability.

It is mainly influenced by the theories of liquid modernity by Zygmunt Bauman and my studies in BA Archaeology at University of Warsaw. While studying Archeology I have truly understood the importance of environmental change in our development as species. During that time, inspired by the lectures on Bronze Age, I began researching alternative ways of cultural time perception. As it turns out in my research, our current cultural linear view of time is deeply unsustainable and is a social construct fuelled by capitalistic ideals which led us to the current climate emergency.

I believe that circularity of time could be culturally understood as a repetition of the same action that each time occurs with a slight variation - as if we, societies, were an ever-changing wheel that travels through time rather than a conglomerate of egocentric individuals focused on pursuing the future, bound by laws and regulations.