We are seeking activities that re-imagine fashion as a design process, product and symbolic form.

Radical Fashion Practices is a workbook that assembles methods for learning and practicing fashion in meaningful, radical and responsible ways. Published by Valiz, the book will be a tool for design students, designers, writers, and practitioners of diverse disciplines to challenge fashion as a commodity and industrial system in these times of uncertainty and upheaval.

Contributions

We are seeking contributions that explore fashion in the expanded field—these are activities/exercises/assignments (and are around 400 words). They should embrace interdisciplinarity, experimentation, and aesthetic play to critique fashion’s politics and economics, destabilize its hierarchies, and widen its horizons as a medium for expression, embodiment, and sociality. Tried, tested, and speculative fashion activities are welcomed. You may submit up to three activities/exercises/assignments before December 1, 2021.

Who

Designers, curators, researchers, artists, educators, fashion practitioners, anyone from fashion education, research and industry, anywhere in the world. Successful contributors will be reviewed by a selection panel and notified by February 1 2022 at the latest. Selection will be based on quality, originality and the diversity of practices represented by the contributors. If accepted, contributors will be supported editorially in order to prepare their contribution for publication. Published contributors will receive two copies of the book.

Where

Submit your assignment/activity at www.radicalfashionpractices.com

Please email radicalfashionpractices@gmail.com (or reply to this email) if you have any questions about your submission or the project.