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.