The Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF), is an experimental online platform beyond institutional, geographical and disciplinary boundaries created in 2012 to critique the denial and erasure of a true diversity of fashioning systems due to eurocentricity, unequal global power relations based on the modern-colonial order and the Euro-American canon of normativity. Transcending academe, we experiment with decentral and decolonial ways of knowledge-creation and sharing concerning fashion. Through a global network of sovereign, yet connected fashioning coalitions, we want to decentralise contemporary fashion discourses and practices, engender solidarity across multiple lines of difference and activate self-representation, self-determination and self-governance in regard to body fashioning.
Since transitioning from an informal network to a foundation in 2021, we have been organising our Annual General Meeting to create an opportunity for the community to connect, reflect on past activities and project on future initiatives. The aim is to provide a platform for anyone and everyone who is concerned about fashion, decoloniality, and a fair, ethical and sustainable industry - both culturally, economically and ecologically. Members of the community are invited to share their ideas, suggestions and concerns about the RCDF's work and activities.
For our next Annual General Meeting (AGM23) on Wednesday 8 May at 8-10pm CET, the programme consists of updates from the chairs of the Supervisory Board (José Teunissen), the Advisory Board (Rolando Vázquez) and the Executive Board (Angela Jansen) and the presentation of the Annual Report 2023. Mi Medrado is once more curating the Decolonial Fashion Film Festival, consisting of short fashion films from different parts of the world and a roundtable with some of the makers, moderated by Tamara Poblete.
The AGM is also the opportunity to renew the community’s financial support through a voluntary annual donation to allow us to continue this work.
