Please mail your unwanted
headscarves to:
Parcel Collect
10164 78097
92 Pacific Highway North
Sydney NSW 2060
If you would like to
get in touch, please email info@rk-collective.com
Crafted Liberation is a collective action, transforming unwanted headscarves donated by Iranian women into stadium seats, as a statement for women empowerment.
Our mission is to share Iranian women’s inspiring stories, creating spaces for acceptance, belonging and dialogue.
Assisted by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts investment and advisory body.
Women, Life, Freedom emerged as a movement following the tragic death of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, who died after being detained by Iran's morality police due to an improper headscarf violation.
Mahsa’s death ignited a wave of protests, uniting Iranian women worldwide in a courageous stand against oppressive laws. This movement has become a global symbol of the fight for equality, dignity and the fundamental right to live without fear.
In solidarity with the movement, we invite Iranian women around the world to donate their unwanted headscarves and transformed them into stadium seats.
In Iran, women have long been banned from entering stadiums. The stadium seat is a symbol of limitation and suppression.
Using a combination of lamination and compression moulding techniques, we created a unique material by combining the donated headscarves with recycled polymers, while honouring the composite materials traditionally used in stadium seat construction.
The blended materials are transformed into sheets and moulded into stadium seats, with the headscarf giving each seat unique visual appearance, embodied with Iranian women’s empowering stories.
Everyday, women in Iran continue to fight for their rights and freedom. Join us in amplifying their voices and supporting their cause.
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Iranian women participated in Crafted Liberation
Donate your unwanted headscarves
We invite you to donate your unwanted headscarves, by mailing them to us in Sydney. You can choose to share your details with us or remain anonymous—your privacy is 100% confidential.
از شما دعوت میکنیم روسریهای ناخواسته خود را با پست به ما در سیدنی ارسال کنید. میتوانید انتخاب کنید که جزئیات خود را با ما به اشتراک بگذارید یا ناشناس بمانید - حریم خصوصی شما کاملاً محرمانه است.
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At the heart of Crafted Liberation lies a commitment to sustainability. We transform discarded headscarves into stadium seats, breathing new life into waste materials. We aim to inspire positive change and contribute to a more sustainable future.
What was once discarded as unwanted and waste is now repurposed into something new, meaningful and with a powerful background story. We apply a manufacturing processes which can handle a variety of material types and material characteristics.
Using different manufacturing techniques such as lamination or compression moulding, we create a unique material blend. Each material has a unique visual appearance and story depending on the input material. Additionally, the absence of any resin binders allows the material to be recycled indefinitely.
Our journey thus far has been marked by numerous design iterations, allowing us to learn the intricacies of waste to resource materials and to design and develop our stadium seats and any other product based on our material innovation.
Past exhibitions & talks
Dutch Design Week 2023
Indonesian Contemporary Art and Design 2024
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Northern Beaches Environmental Art and Design Prize 2024
We're an award-winning, female-led product design and innovation collective, committed to creating meaningful products and experiences with a positive impact on our planet and society.
Crafted Liberation is initiated by our co-founder, Iranian-Australian designer, Nila Rezaei.
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