At the fashion department we invite students to engage with the layered workings of clothes in society: fashion in context. How do clothes move through different places, cultures, hands, times and as such acquire form and meaning? Underlining diversity and acknowledging fashion’s fluid values, meanings and voices, we offer a supportive framework focused on dialogue and sharing knowledge.
We encourage experimental and playful approaches towards form, materialization and presentation, and the opportunity to question familiar notions of fashion; What is fashion beyond an economic tool? What is the role of the designer beyond individual authorship? By creating a supportive and inviting learning environment within which we challenge and question the hegemonic (Western) fashion paradigm, we aim to find ways to reshape fashion into a more social, radical, inclusive, multidisciplinary, sustainable and multivocal practice.
Through various workshops, projects, lectures and excursions, you will become acquainted with current workings, possibilities and challenges of the expanded field of fashion. You will develop your individual approach to critical artistic research, as well explore collaborative – non hierarchical ways of working. The work you develop may be clothing, but may also take on other forms (i.e. research projects, publications, installations, performances etc,). A critical, open, enthusiastic study attitude is expected of you as well as engagement and contribution to the group dynamic.
