The Future is Wool partnership addresses the urgent environmental issues of climate breakdown and consequent ‘ecological grief,’ using research-creation, storytelling and participatory arts in an international, cross-sectoral inquiry into the ‘world-saving’ properties of wool. 

Uniting artists, researchers and small scale fibre farmers affiliated with universities, community organizations, and non-profits in Canada, Iceland and New Zealand, our partnership will explore wool as a perfect material – it insulates against all temperatures, absorbs volatile gases, releases/absorbs humidity, is odor resistant, non-inflammable, easy to care for and sustainable. Ethical stewardship of the sheep that produce wool, which can be humanely sheared annually for their fleece, improves the health of soils, sequesters carbon and reduces our dependence of synthetic textiles. 

In our time of planetary crisis, our future is wool.