Fashion Colloquium: Searching for the New Luxury
During the ‘Fashion Colloquium: Searching for the New Luxury’ we will actively engage in in-depth conversations and explorations on the role of fashion in urgent socio-cultural, environmental and economic developments in contemporary society.
Fashion is in dire need of more value-based critical thinking as well as design-driven research to thoroughly explore, disrupt, redefine and transform the system. How can we activate the power of fashion – highlighting the role of design, imagination and aesthetics – to act differently and to move towards more resilient futures and equitable societies? How can we envision and create an alternative and more engaged future of fashion that does more justice to fashion’s human dimension? How can academic research, critical thinking and creative interventions help to (re)imagine and build another kind of future where ‘fashioned’ human beings and materials have more agency?
More than 40 international academics and creative practitioners will present their research on themes such as new materials, design for closed loops, aesthetic sustainability and emotional connectivity, redefining value systems, new business models and forms of organization, and the importance of agency in moving towards a more resilient future We will collectively engage in in-depth discussions on how to develop innovative approaches that help to create systemic change. The Fashion Colloquium will host:
- lectures and panel discussions by keynote speakers
- paper presentations by academics and practice-based researchers and designers
- creative contributions such as performances, participatory panel discussions and other creative interventions
Conference organizer: ArtEZ University of the Arts, in collaboration with State of Fashion
Academic partners: London College of Fashion, Wageningen University & Research, and Radboud University Nijmegen
The full conference programme can be found on: http://fashioncolloquium.artez.nl/conference-programme/day-1/
The conference is feeless, but you will need to register. Please register by clicking on the following link: http://fashioncolloquium.artez.nl/practical-info/registration
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