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JOIN workshop in collaboration with the Master Critical Fashion Practices. In this photograph, by Anouk Beckers, we see a JOIN piece made with contributions by Charlotte Verdegaal, Chet Bugter, Femke de Vries, Lindy Boerman and Tanyatorn Lauwanichpat.
JOIN workshop in collaboration with the Master Critical Fashion Practices. In this photograph, by Anouk Beckers, we see a JOIN piece made with contributions by Charlotte Verdegaal, Chet Bugter, Femke de Vries, Lindy Boerman and Tanyatorn Lauwanichpat. JOIN workshop in collaboration with the Master Critical Fashion Practices. In this photograph, by Anouk Beckers, we see a JOIN piece made with contributions by Charlotte Verdegaal, Chet Bugter, Femke de Vries, Lindy Boerman and Tanyatorn Lauwanichpat.

Fashion Professorship

JOIN workshop in collaboration with the Master Critical Fashion Practices. In this photograph, by Anouk Beckers, we see a JOIN piece made with contributions by Charlotte Verdegaal, Chet Bugter, Femke de Vries, Lindy Boerman and Tanyatorn Lauwanichpat.

The Fashion Professorship explores and develops critical theories and practices of making, wearing and embodying fashion. In doing so, the Fashion Professorship aims to contribute to practicing alternative and solidary systems with more agency for human beings in precarious positions and more care for all living beings.

Fashion

In brief

  • Equitability – Committed to creating more agency and equitability for all living beings.
  • New Ecologies of Matter – Committed to practicing more care for living (things that) matter.
  • Critical Fashion Approach – Developing affirmative theories, critical strategies and embodied practices, contributing to a critical fashion discourse.
  • Living Community – Facilitating interdisciplinary communities of international researchers and practitioners.
  • Solidary Systems – Redefining value systems to activate post-anthropocentric ethical attitudes for more empathy, solidarity and wellbeing.

A Critical Fashion Approach

Starting from a critique on the untenable systems at the center of our contemporary neo-liberal, market-driven society and consumer culture, the Fashion Professorship focuses on reflecting on the contemporary fashion industry as the prime example of the socio-cultural, economic and political power structures underlying anthropocentric and capitalist systems.

The Fashion Professorship aims to activate and contribute to (1) practicing alternative and solidary systems; (2) creating more agency and equitability through an embodied approach, moving beyond systemic de-humanization; and (3) developing a post-anthropocentric and new materialist approach by re-engaging with all living beings and living (things that) matter.

Through art and design-driven research and critical theory, the Professorships focuses on developing alternative approaches, systems, practices, vocabularies and strategies. In doing so, the Professorship aim to contribute to a critical fashion discourse.