Online Introductory course on Decoloniality and 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, ethical and culturally sustainable alternatives.
We welcome participants from all walks of life, with or without a background in fashion—students, researchers, educators, curators, fashion practitioners, critical thinkers, and activists committed to undoing contemporary fashion’s violence and erasure.
The focus is on knowledge transmission; we aim to learn from and with each other. The course is convened by some of the most exciting decolonial and fashion thinkers to be confirmed.
The classes are every Tuesday evening, 8-9:30 pm (GMT+2), the Netherlands time, in English and consist of 1h30 hours, including a lecture-type presentation, assignments in smaller breakout rooms sessions, and group discussions.
The course is organized around seven topics, and it 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. Offering many 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
From September 23 to November 4, 2025
- Duration: 7 online sessions via ZOOM, once a week,
- On Tuesday evenings at 8-9:30 pm (GMT+2) The Netherlands time
- Sep 23 and 30; Oct 7, 14, 21, 28; November 4
- Commitment: Participants are expected to come to class prepared, having prepared the selected materials. Each participant is welcome to share weekly a short paragraph reflection, drawing, photos, or a song as a response action to the topics addressed.
- A free-format final assignment can be written, drawn, video, audio, or object-based.
- A certificate of participation will be offered
- Course fee: 275€ (plus 8,46 registration fee; three scholarships are available; application by email before 30 August 2025).
- Payment on Eventbrite: https://shorturl.at/87DCb
- Enrollment: Before 30 August 2025 via the Google form: https://shorturl.at/fMaZ3 |
- Max of 25 participants
- For scholarship, send a letter via the Google form by 15 August: a 500-word letter of motivation, sharing how decoloniality touches you.
- Questions or comments contact: Mi Medrado, rcdf.editorial@gmail.com
Course Outline
| 23 September 2025. Introduction: by the course coordinators. In this first session, we will present the course outline. Participants will be asked to share how they come to decoloniality and fashion. |
| September, 30, 2025. Decoloniality and Fashion Decolonial Concepts, Theories and Approaches: Speaker TBC |
| October, 7, 2025. Decoloniality and Fashion Studies: Speaker TBC |
| October, 14, 2025. Decoloniality and sustainable fashion: Speaker TBC |
| October, 21, 2025. Decoloniality and Fashion Curatorial Practices: Speaker TBC |
| October, 28, 2025. Decoloniality and Fashion Activism: Speaker TBC |
| November 4, 2025. Decoloniality and Fashion and Politics of Redress:Speaker TBC |
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Research Collective for Decoloniality & Fashion 