Ahmed, Tanveer and Barry, Ben (2023) Fashion education as a practice of freedom. In: FASHION IN 3D: Decolonizing Deconstructing Decentering, ZoneModa, International Conference 2023, 19-21 October 2023, University of Bologna.
Type of Research: | Conference, Symposium or Workshop Item |
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Creators: | Ahmed, Tanveer and Barry, Ben |
Description: | How can we work towards a decolonized, anti-racist, bodymind loving, non-binary fashion system to shape inclusive ways of teaching and learning? The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated fashion education’s active role in the current global polycrisis, with its systemic roots in the violent histories of colonialism, enslavement and global capitalism. In this keynote, we build upon our contributions in Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution and amplify the movement of fashion educators who are confronting these ongoing histories of harm through everyday pedagogical practices. We heed bell hooks and engage in dialogue to envisage fashion education as a practice of freedom: we bring together anti-racist and anti-ableist frameworks and pedagogical practices to propose how we might collectively occupy spaces of fashion education to orient social justice. Through the process of unpicking fashion, with our audience we will question how social justice-oriented fashion education practices might emerge from critical intellectual traditions built upon dissent and counter hegemonic struggles of marginalized peoples. We will reflect upon who made our garments, how the fabric was woven or spun, embellished and sewn and what is at stake for each of us as we work to change fashion education. Our keynote offers the themes of place, time and care as a guide for fellow fashion educators to draw upon as they develop their own approaches for mobilizing fashion education as a practice of freedom. |
Official Website: | https://eventi.unibo.it/fashion3d |
Your affiliations with UAL: | Colleges > Central Saint Martins |
Date: | 19 October 2023 |
Event Location: | University of Bologna |
Date Deposited: | 14 Aug 2025 15:53 |
Last Modified: | 14 Aug 2025 15:53 |
Item ID: | 24594 |
URI: | https://ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/id/eprint/24594 |
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