Transformation through fashion education? Towards Systemic Change – 19 May 2022 6-7.30 pm (CEST) – Long table conversation

Transformation through fashion education? Towards Systemic Change.

19 May 2022

6-7.30 pm (CEST)

Long table conversation

online

In the modernist logic of the global west fashion was constructed as the favorite child of capitalism. Fashion was defined as essentially transient, modern, urban – thus western. Fashion Education has fed a system based on this narrative. Ever faster. Ever more. One of the fastest growing educational sectors. To contribute to regenerative formation, fashion education has to become unfashionable. It has to disrupt itself, to re-configure itself – to be disruptive.

“Transformation through fashion education? Towards Systemic Change”

project presentations by

Laya Chirravuru (India): Roots Studio

Lesiba Mabitsela (South Africa): The Cutting Room Project

Stephanie Barker-Fry (UK): ReGo

and long table contributions by

fashion students Timisola Shasanya (CSM, UK) & Melchior Rasch (UdK, Germany)

and members of fashioning education Dilys Williams (CSF, UK), Oliver Ibert (IRS, Germany), Tanveer Ahmed (CSM, UK) et.al.

With its second public event fashioning education continues to explore the transformative potentials of different fashion educational settings. It debates the extent to which fashion education can contribute to regeneration – from within. It invites opposing positions to a long table discussion supplemented by showcases of social fashion educational projects dedicated to new ecologies of community based on principles of collectivity, collaboration and care – proposing transformative tactics.The event takes place on Zoom.

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We look forward to seeing you!

The event is hosted by the Berlin University of the Arts and funded by Einstein Foundation Berlin.