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.

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. 

We would like to present the end report ‘Circular Intimacies’ by Daniëlle Bruggeman, Anja Köppchen and Freya Zaplata as well as the report ‘Recommendations for a Circular Design Practice’ by Zinzi de Brouwer – developed as part of the collaborative research project ‘Going Circular, Going Cellulose’ (2018-2021), in short (GC)2.

We are excited to announce that Daniëlle Bruggeman is an invited speaker at Rio Ethical Fashion 2021 for a panel discussion on Friday June 4.

For the Belgian magazine 'Samenleving & Politiek' (Society & Politics), Aurélie Van de Peer, Hanka van der Voet and Daniëlle Bruggeman wrote an essay (in Dutch) about the future of fashion one year after the outbreak of covid-19 - reflecting on mechanisms of exclusion, monoculture, enclosures and the commons, and how to create more agency for makers and wearers. With references to the work of Chinouk Filique de Miranda, Join Collective Clothes / Anouk Beckers, and De Feministische Handwerkpartij.

On March 12, we started our new collaborative research project ‘Solidarity in Fashion’, funded by SIA KIEM.

‘Solidarity in Fashion’ builds upon our previous project ‘Emotionally Durable Design’, which focused on moving beyond our ‘throw-away culture’ and mentality of growth, in order to act from other values, related to ‘de-growth’. 

On Wednesday January 27, Danielle Bruggeman participated in an online conversation within the context of the 4th edition of the Fashion Make Sense Award, which is an annual returning motivation prize for young designers. This award aims to develop talent and support sustainable designers on the one hand and raise awareness of sustainability related issues with a larger audience on the other. During the FASHIONCLASH Festival - the digital edition - this conversation was presented on Friday February 26.