admin The University of the Arts Berlin, or Universität der Künste Berlin
(UdK) has announced it will be hosting an international conference on
fashion and sustainability from September 15 to September 16.
The conference is entitled “De-Fashioning Education – A critical
thinking and making conference” and will “explore how fashion thinking and
making, learning and teaching can and must change in the light of
environmental and social challenges,” the press release shared by the
university reads.
The two-day programme brings together teachers, learners, researchers,
actors and activists from twenty countries. The conference will provide
insight into learning and teaching practices and didactic innovations
through lectures, project presentations, workshops, screenings, museum
tours and walks.
De-Fashioning Education will feature speakers such as Sandra Niessen,
independent scholar and defashion activist from The Netherlands, Sunny
Dolat of The Nest Collective, Kenya, Loreto Martínez and Tamara Poblete of
the Colectivo Malvestidas from Chile.
As well as Otto von Busch, professor of Integrated Design, at Parsons
School of Design in the US and his Parsons colleague Christina H. Moon,
associate professor of Fashion Studies, textile curator Mayank Mansingh
Kaul from India and creative director Anjana Das, also from India.
In addition, the Berlin event will include twenty interactive workshops
and The Incidental Quilt: a Hybrid Conference Community Practice with The
Queer Needlework Circle Berlin, and Clare Farrell and Yr Jóhannsdottir.
The conference will take place at various UdK locations in Berlin and
attending it is free of charge. Those interested can register online or in
person.
