Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion

Dear RCDF community,

We hope this message finds you all well and in good spirit. We are happy to share some updates on our projects and activities, as well as updates from the various communities that make up the Collective.

Our monthly online Conversations on Decoloniality & Fashion, initiated in February 2021, continue each first Thursday of the month. This year, we are reflecting a recurring topic Designing Goods, Crafting Communities: What is Really Being Lost?, with di”erent moderators and guests each month, from di”erent communities around the world. Everyone is invited to join by registering on Eventbrite.

In May 2024, we had our Annual General Meeting (AGM23), with a roundtable conversation on ‘Exploring Decolonial Options in Fashion‘ with Sandra Niessen, Jose Teunissen, Erica de Greef and Angela Jansen. We also organised our 3rd Decolonial Film Festival, curated by Mi Medrado and moderated by Tamara Poblete. Both recordings are now available on the RCDF Youtube channel.

In June 2024, we started our second edition of our online introductory course on Decoloniality and Fashion, with twenty-one participants and four scholarships. We are once more incredibly blessed to have some amazing guest lecturers joining us, including Sandra Niessen, Sarah Cheang, Erica de Greef, Tamara Poblete and Loreto Martinez. If you wish to join next year, make sure to pre-register on the waiting list by email to avoid disappointment.

For the second edition of the Global Fashioning Assembly, scheduled for October 2024, twenty communities have been meeting monthly to coordinate the di”erent overal organisational tasks (establishing budgets, writing funding applications, animating social media, designing logos, establishing programmes, etc.) while each community has been working on their individual hosting programmes. Find out bellow which communities will be hosting this year.

Meanwhile, we are sharing updates from our communities around the world on projects, publications, podcasts, etc. If you want to stay updated, make sure to subscribe to the RCDF website, YouTube channel and Instagram.

Read the full newsletter here.

The RCDF team