Online Introductory course on Decoloniality and Fashion | 2025
Course description
This seven-week online introductory course on decoloniality & fashion explores both conceptual and practice-based aspects of decoloniality and fashion and presents participants with an exciting collaborative opportunity—through its discursive and participatory format—to examine a range of tools, formats, and practices that will strengthen their position to disrupt dominant Eurocentric fashion and formulate diverse, ethical, and culturally sustainable alternatives.
We welcome participants from all walks of life, with or without a background in fashion—students, researchers, educators, curators, fashion practitioners, critical thinkers, and activists committed to challenging the violence and erasure inherent in contemporary fashion.
The focus is on knowledge transmission; we aim to learn from and with each other. The course is convened by some of the most exciting decolonial and fashion thinkers:
Angela Janssen (Belgium), Sandra Niessen (The Netherlands), Tanveer Ahmed (England)
Siviwe James (South Africa), Carol Barreto (Brazil), Pierre-Antoine Vettorello (Belgium), and is coordinated by Mi Medrado.
The classes are held every Tuesday evening, 8-9:30 pm (GMT+2), in the Netherlands time, and are conducted in English. They consist of 1 hour and 30 minutes, including a lecture-type presentation, assignments in smaller breakout room sessions, and group discussions.
The course is organized around seven topics, and it examines some key problems of the contemporary fashion industry and their roots in the modern civilization project. It explores obscured intersectional forms of discrimination, erasure, and exploitation within contemporary fashion perpetuated in sustainability discourses, fashion curricula, and curation practices. Offering many decolonial alternatives that work towards a politics of redress, a politics of aesthetic and epistemic restitution and repair, and a politics of giving back a place in the present, of hosting and emplacing what has been denied and erased.
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