Finished Projects / Twintex

Project Acronym / Full Title: Twintex – Twinning Textile Museums

EU Programme: Europe for citizens programme – town twinning

Lead Partner: Comune di Prato, Italy

Partners:

Comune di Biella, Italy
Comune di Carpi, Italy
Comune di Schio, Italy
Miasta Lodz , Poland
Ville de Verviers, Belgium
Ville de Lyon, France
Diputació de Barcelona, Spain
Ajuntament de Manresa, Spain
Ajuntament de Terrassa, Spain
Ajuntament de Sabadell, Spain
Ajuntament de Manlleu, Spain
Ajuntament de Igualada, Spain
Guimaraes, Portugal
Santo Tirso, Portugal
Vila Nova de Familacao, Portugal

Project duration: From 01/09/2006 to 01/06/2007

Abstract:

The general objective of the Twintex Project is to promote European textile cities as the centres of change - based on innovation, entrepreneurship and business growth - focusing on the role played by textile museums as drivers for process and product innovation, and stimulating the enforcement of existing networks among local communities, textile museums and economic partners. Project activities have in particular focused on the organisation of a 2 days conference, involving all those European twin towns already having or planning to have textile museums. In this context, the following aspects have been analyzed:

Instruments and policies fostering urban transformation in textile towns, within the framework of 2007/2013 EU Structural Funds;
Role of textile museums to act as promoters of local identity and to work as archives for historic productive memory, through the valorisation, mapping and networking of textile samples proceeding from textile museums and private companies;
Connections among textile museums, textile companies and technological innovation, according to the need of the transition from industrial economy to knowledge economy.

During the conference, the exhibition Towards a European Textile DNA has been organised, with the aim to represent all textile museums of twined towns, and to show the most significant textile products coming from some private companies´ archives.

Other Info (Publications, Project Website, etc): www.twintexmuseums.eu

Contact Person:

Filippo Guarini
Tel. +32.2.286.85.22
E-Mail: f.guarini@museodeltessuto.it