Course description
This six-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 explore 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.
The course is aimed at students, researchers, educators, curators, fashion practitioners, critical thinkers and activists who are committed to undoing the violence and erasure of contemporary fashion. We welcome participants from all walks of life, with or without a background in fashion. The classes are every Tuesday evening, 8-9:30pm CEST, in English and consist of 1.5 hours, including a lecture-type presentation, assignments in smaller breakout rooms sessions and group discussions. Although the focus is on knowledge transmission, we aim to learn from each other, with each other. The course is convened by some of the most exciting decolonial + fashion thinkers, including Sandra Niessen, Benjamin Wild, Angela Jansen, Mi Medrado, Erica de Greef and Sarah Cheang.
Organised around six topics, the course 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. It explores a number of 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.
Course details
- Duration: 6 online sessions via ZOOM, once a week, on Tuesday evenings at 8-9:30pm CEST.
- Commitment: participants are expected to come to class prepared, having prepared the selected materials. Each week participants are requested to write a 500-word reflection on the topics addressed. There is a (free format) final assignment which can be a writing, drawing, video, audio or object-based.
- Course fee: 150€ (plus 8,46 registration fee; one scholarship per course is available; application by email before 15 May 2024).
- Registration: Before 28 May 2024 on Eventbrite (max of 20 participants).
- Contact: info@rcdfashion.com
