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ONLINE INTRODUCTORY COURSE ON DECOLONIALITY & 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,…
RCDF Annual Report 2024
The Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion (RCDF) is an experimental platform beyond institutional, disciplinary and geographical boundaries established in 2012. Its main aim is to critique the denial and erasure of a diversity of fashioning systems due to eurocentricity, unequal global power relations based on the modern-colonial order and the Euro-American canon of normativity…
Global Fashioning Assembly 2024
The biennial Global Fashioning Assembly (GFA), with a first edition in 2022, is a unique online gathering of local fashion communities from all over the world to decenter and decolonise knowledge creation and sharing of body fashioning practices and heritages. Rather than the event hosting participants, the participants pass on the hosting of the event…
Future Materials
In 2025, we will be collaborating with the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht (Netherlands) for their Fashion & Textile Material Fellowship, starting 15 January 2025. Deadline: 2 September 2024Residency period: 15 January – 15 December 2025 The Fashion & Textile Material Fellowship, as part of the Academie’s long-term Future Materials programme, supports an existing…
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