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Background

The Fashion Professorship at ArtEZ was launched in 2002 as the first professorship in the Netherlands to conduct research and develop theory in the field of fashion. At that point in time, fashion hardly had any international research tradition in academia. To investigate pressing issues in the field of (Dutch) fashion, Professor José Teunissen (2002-2016) initiated several large-scale interdisciplinary research projects, such as ‘Dutch Fashion Identity in a Globalised World’ (2008-2014) and ‘Crafting Wearables’ (2013-2018) in collaboration with Professor Anneke Smelik of Radboud University, funded by NWO (Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research). Since 2012, the professorship had been leading the Dutch national research agenda for innovation in fashion and textiles (CLICKNL), during which a strong network of researchers, educational institutes and companies was created. In 2015, together with dr. Jeroen van den Eijnde’s Professorship in Product Design & Interior Architecture (now: Tactical Design), the Centre of Expertise Future Makers was initiated, which focuses on the development and application of new materials and production processes in fashion and design.

In January 2017, dr. Daniëlle Bruggeman was appointed as Professor of Fashion at ArtEZ  to further develop fashion research and theory in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD in Cultural Studies, which was part of the research project ‘Dutch Fashion Identity in a Globalised World’ at Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She has published on topics like the fluid, performative and embodied dimensions of identity, and on fashion in relation to the philosophical discourse of new materialism. In 2018, Daniëlle Bruggeman gave her inaugural lecture and presented the accompanying publication Dissolving the Ego of Fashion: Engaging with Human Matters (2018, published by ArtEZ Press), which presents the main research themes the Professorship set out to explore during its first 4-year tenure (2017-2021).

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ArtEZ Future Makers
ArtEZ Community
Website: https://futuremakers.artez.nl

Master Critical Fashion Practices
ArtEZ Community
Website: https://www.artez.nl/en/course/fashion-strategy

Master Fashion Design (Practice Held in Common)
ArtEZ Community
Website: https://practiceheldincommon.nl