State of Fashion, ArtEZ University of the Arts and NewTexEco would like to invite you to the Assembly Available to Promise: Hidden Systems and Unseen Labour on Friday 29 May from 09:30 – 18:00 h, in the City Hall in Arnhem. Bringing together artists, designers, students, researchers, companies, industry representatives and policy makers, the Assembly will expose a wide variety of perspectives on hidden systems and unseen labour in the fashion industry.

Students from the Master’s programme in Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts recently held their presentations and reviews as part of the Professorship assignment on (Un)seen Labour. This moment marks an important intermediate step within the ongoing research project.

(Un)seen Labour is a research project of the Fashion Professorship at ArtEZ University of the Arts, in collaboration with State of Fashion and partners Avans University of Applied Sciences and Crafts Council Nederland. Together, they explore how art and design can show what lies behind the fashion and textile industry. Through a circular and social approach, new ways of working emerge that contribute to more sustainable and equitable design practices.

On Thursday March 20, 2025 Daniëlle Bruggeman marked her position as Professor by special appointment Fashion & Sustainability at Radboud University with the inaugural lecture “Stitches of Care: Practising Solidarity through Fashion”.