‘Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity’
Do you want to contribute to an international fashion conference? This is a call for all critical fashion practitioners that embrace solidarity in their practice.
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‘Ways of Caring - Practicing Solidarity’
Do you want to curate and present an engaging online programme within a hybrid fashion conference on solidarity? This is a call for all fashion platforms, researchers, educational institutions, collectives etc. to send in their proposals.
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Last October 20th, 21st and 22nd the University of Antwerp, Antwerp Management School, the city of Antwerp, The Royal Fashion Academy Antwerp, Tourism Flanders & MoMu Antwerp presented THE RESPONSIBLE FASHION SERIES, one of the most important international meetings of confrontation and sharing for the academic world, which brought together the main fashion institutes around the world!
... read moreOn Friday November 5, the Mode Partners 025 (State of Fashion, Fashion & Design Festival Arnhem, Museum Arnhem, Rijn IJssel and ArtEZ) and GIST (ArtEZ Future Makers, WUR Circular Fashion Lab and Kiemt) hosted a session on local pioneers who aim to transform the fashion system in the Arnhem region. Together, the Mode Partners 025 and GIST try to nurture the local ecosystem - of makers, designers, start ups, researchers, students, etc. - to facilitate a continuous cross-fertilization in order to contribute to systemic change.
... read moreDue to the outbreak of Covid-19, the fashion sector faces new challenges. Could these times be an opportunity for a reset of values, for systemic change and a sustainable re-start? Solidarity in Fashion is a collaborative research project that explores how the current situation can be used to develop alternative fashion practices that contribute to a more ethical, sustainable fashion system, and to a more conscious relationship with fashion, also on the long term.
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The current times of great uncertainty and increasing polarisation demand an open, explorative and speculative approach towards fashion and its system. Titled ‘Practicing Solidarity’, the ArtEZ Fashion Professorship invited seven critical fashion practitioners and/or fashion collectives to develop concrete concepts that contribute to a future in which solidarity, empathy, connection, agency, well-being and care are central values. Practicing Solidarity is closely linked to the research project Solidarity in Fashion – amplifying its impact and broadening its reach.
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Het bruist in Gelderland op het gebied van Mode en Textiel! Samenwerking in onderzoek en innovatie door de partners ArtEZ Future Makers, WUR Circular Fashion Lab, en Kiemt binnen GIST (Gelderse Innovators for Sustainable Textiles) én de recent gevormde Mode Partners 025, een initiatief van ArtEZ University of the Arts (ArtEZ), State of Fashion, Fashion + Design Festival Arnhem (FDFA), Museum Arnhem en Rijn IJssel, zorgen voor veel reuring en dynamiek in de verduurzaming van de mode- en textielsector in Nederland.
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Practicing Human Agency
During the Fashion Tales conference on (June 17-19), Danielle Bruggeman will present a paper on human agency, collective making, participatory social practices, critical fashion and embodiment. Her paper explores three recent cases of critical fashion practices that aim to re-imagine fashion as an alternative system with more human agency.
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