‘Grief is not the end of things but rather the dark substrate from which great things can emerge.’
Nick Cave (2024) The Red Hand Files, Issue #287, June
Which practices, ideas and expectations do we
need to let go? Which ones are not realistic, timely or constructive anymore in
the world we live in? How can we turn anxiety or anger into action? Which practices
and ideas do we want to unlearn, and which to preserve, strengthen, or learn
afresh? In a field framed as innovative and perpetually new, we want to
consider exnovation – the ending of practices and products.
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024 invites us to come together to grieve – to acknowledge, accept and act. Come together to explore the power of mutual learning.
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024 invites us to come together to grieve – to acknowledge, accept and act. Come together to explore the power of mutual learning.
*online participation only*
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024 is a collective experience.
Either, find two or more people to meet in-person in a location of your choice and join the Multilogue as a group.
Or, join alone and connect with the global community online.
Either, find two or more people to meet in-person in a location of your choice and join the Multilogue as a group.
Or, join alone and connect with the global community online.
*online participation only*
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024: on grief, exnovation, and the power of mutual learning
What is the Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education anyway?
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education wants to create connections and actions within and across different fashion learning cultures and contexts. It was founded in 2019 as a participatory and outcome-oriented space and a series of conferences focused on the learning and teaching of fashion. It aims to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education, and to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures – methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions – creating a global exchange to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action.
When is the Multilogue 2024 taking place?
10 October 2024, 6-9 pm (CEST)
What it is about and why?
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024: On grief, exnovation, and the power of mutual learning
‘grief is not the end of things but rather the dark substrate from which great things can emerge.’
Nick Cave (2024) The Red Hand Files, Issue #287, June [LINK: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/please-give-my-best-to-susie/ ]
Which practices, ideas and expectations do we need to let go? Which ones are not realistic, timely or constructive anymore in the world we live in? How can we turn anxiety or anger into action? Which practices and ideas do we want to unlearn, and which to preserve, strengthen, or learn afresh? In a field framed as innovative and perpetually new, we want to consider exnovation – the ending of practices and products.
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024 invites us to come together to grieve – to acknowledge, accept and act. Come together to explore the power of mutual learning.
Where is it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
Come together locally whilst learning from and connecting with global fashion learning communities. We are inviting you to meet locally, joining the global community online at the beginning and the end of the Multilogue. Here is the recipe for this year’s Multilogue:
The Recipe for The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024:
• three people make a local multilogue!
• find two or more people to meet in-person 10 October 6-9pm CEST in a location of your choice
• come together to think and talk, make, drink, cook …
• join the global community online at the beginning and the end of the Multilogue for food for thought and the sharing of ideas and actions
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education wants to create connections and actions within and across different fashion learning cultures and contexts. It was founded in 2019 as a participatory and outcome-oriented space and a series of conferences focused on the learning and teaching of fashion. It aims to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education, and to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures – methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions – creating a global exchange to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action.
When is the Multilogue 2024 taking place?
10 October 2024, 6-9 pm (CEST)
What it is about and why?
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024: On grief, exnovation, and the power of mutual learning
‘grief is not the end of things but rather the dark substrate from which great things can emerge.’
Nick Cave (2024) The Red Hand Files, Issue #287, June [LINK: https://www.theredhandfiles.com/please-give-my-best-to-susie/ ]
Which practices, ideas and expectations do we need to let go? Which ones are not realistic, timely or constructive anymore in the world we live in? How can we turn anxiety or anger into action? Which practices and ideas do we want to unlearn, and which to preserve, strengthen, or learn afresh? In a field framed as innovative and perpetually new, we want to consider exnovation – the ending of practices and products.
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024 invites us to come together to grieve – to acknowledge, accept and act. Come together to explore the power of mutual learning.
Where is it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
Come together locally whilst learning from and connecting with global fashion learning communities. We are inviting you to meet locally, joining the global community online at the beginning and the end of the Multilogue. Here is the recipe for this year’s Multilogue:
The Recipe for The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2024:
• three people make a local multilogue!
• find two or more people to meet in-person 10 October 6-9pm CEST in a location of your choice
• come together to think and talk, make, drink, cook …
• join the global community online at the beginning and the end of the Multilogue for food for thought and the sharing of ideas and actions
It’s called a digital Multilogue, but it is also local – what’s going on?
When we founded the Multilogues in 2019, we imagined physical meetings. The Covid pandemic turned them digital – and on the upside much more inclusive, accessible and global as a result. Hundreds of fashion learners and leading learners have been coming together every year from more than 50 countries. Last year’s Multilogue was a hybrid conference on De-Fashioning Education, it took place in Berlin, September 2023. Everyone greatly appreciated sharing spaces, physical interaction, humour, food… Many of us met other local fashion learners from our communities that we hadn’t met before. Let’s strengthen our local communities whilst connecting to and learning with our global community.
Who can participate?
Everyone. The Multilogue is always open-access and free for all. As should all education be!
Everyone is a fashion learner.
We are twenty people who want to come together – is that ok?
Of course. The more, the merrier. Imagine the space you would like to create to join the Multilogue. But, registration for local Multiloguing is closed. If you haven’t registered yet for a local Multilogue you can just still register and join online. You can work together with other fashion learners from around the world. The ingredients for the Multilogue have been digitised. All you need is a computer, a phone, pen and paper to write and draw with and some W/LAN to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
I am alone – what do I do?
You are welcome as an online participant to join and find online community to collaborate at the event. All you need is a computer, a phone, pen and paper to write and draw with and some W/LAN to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
How do I participate / register?
Register here.
I would love to participate, but I live in Singapore / Tokyo / Wellington… and should be fast asleep at 6-9pm (CEST) when the Multilogue will take place – what can I do?
First of all, apologies that we can’t work with a sliding schedule this time. Please register and we will provide as many ingredients as possible so that you can come together at an hour of your convenience.
We have registered for a local Multilogue - how do we prepare?
The kits with the ingredients for your local Multilogue are on their ways to you in the post. All you need is a computer, a phone, pen and paper to write and draw with and some W/LAN to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
It is 10th October. We did not receive the paper kits, we expected to receive foor our local Multilogue - what to do now?
In case of postal delays, we have also digitised the essential ingredients. You can – in that case – also join the Multilogue online. All you need to prepare is a space for your local get-together, some pens and paper to write and draw with, refreshments to sustain you throughout the Multilogue, and one device with a speaker and some W/lan to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
I have more questions, who can I ask?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on: multilogue@fashioneducation.org
When we founded the Multilogues in 2019, we imagined physical meetings. The Covid pandemic turned them digital – and on the upside much more inclusive, accessible and global as a result. Hundreds of fashion learners and leading learners have been coming together every year from more than 50 countries. Last year’s Multilogue was a hybrid conference on De-Fashioning Education, it took place in Berlin, September 2023. Everyone greatly appreciated sharing spaces, physical interaction, humour, food… Many of us met other local fashion learners from our communities that we hadn’t met before. Let’s strengthen our local communities whilst connecting to and learning with our global community.
Who can participate?
Everyone. The Multilogue is always open-access and free for all. As should all education be!
Everyone is a fashion learner.
We are twenty people who want to come together – is that ok?
Of course. The more, the merrier. Imagine the space you would like to create to join the Multilogue. But, registration for local Multiloguing is closed. If you haven’t registered yet for a local Multilogue you can just still register and join online. You can work together with other fashion learners from around the world. The ingredients for the Multilogue have been digitised. All you need is a computer, a phone, pen and paper to write and draw with and some W/LAN to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
I am alone – what do I do?
You are welcome as an online participant to join and find online community to collaborate at the event. All you need is a computer, a phone, pen and paper to write and draw with and some W/LAN to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
How do I participate / register?
Register here.
I would love to participate, but I live in Singapore / Tokyo / Wellington… and should be fast asleep at 6-9pm (CEST) when the Multilogue will take place – what can I do?
First of all, apologies that we can’t work with a sliding schedule this time. Please register and we will provide as many ingredients as possible so that you can come together at an hour of your convenience.
We have registered for a local Multilogue - how do we prepare?
The kits with the ingredients for your local Multilogue are on their ways to you in the post. All you need is a computer, a phone, pen and paper to write and draw with and some W/LAN to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
It is 10th October. We did not receive the paper kits, we expected to receive foor our local Multilogue - what to do now?
In case of postal delays, we have also digitised the essential ingredients. You can – in that case – also join the Multilogue online. All you need to prepare is a space for your local get-together, some pens and paper to write and draw with, refreshments to sustain you throughout the Multilogue, and one device with a speaker and some W/lan to connect, document, upload some of your local ideas for mutual learning.
I have more questions, who can I ask?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on: multilogue@fashioneducation.org
The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education wants to create connections and actions within and across different fashion learning cultures and contexts. It was founded in 2019 as a participatory and outcome-oriented space and a series of conferences focused on the learning and teaching of fashion. It aims to explore and illustrate the diversity and complexity of the field and the practices of fashion education, and to foster a greater understanding of its pasts, presents and futures – methods, values and didactic, pedagogic and epistemological questions – creating a global exchange to inspire mutual learning, collaborative research and shared action.
The Multilogues are organized by Franziska Schreiber & Dr. Renate Stauss, who are brought together and driven by their love for making and wearing fashion, for learning and thinking through fashion, and their belief in its connective, educational and transformative potential.
The Multilogues are organized by Franziska Schreiber & Dr. Renate Stauss, who are brought together and driven by their love for making and wearing fashion, for learning and thinking through fashion, and their belief in its connective, educational and transformative potential.
ORGANISERS
Dr. Renate Stauss is Assistant Professor of Fashion Studies at The American University of Paris in the Department of Communication, Media and Culture. She is also a lecturer at the Berlin University of the Arts.
Franziska Schreiber is a fashion designer
and currently holds a professorship for „fashion I body I digitality“ at the
Berlin University of the Arts.
FASHION IS A GREAT TEACHER – THE FASHION EDUCATION PODCAST
Fashion is a great teacher because it provides a fantastic lens to learn about the world and its people, about history, politics and culture. Join Renate Stauss and Franziska Schreiber, to discover the most inspiring voices in fashion education, their take on the how and why of learning and teaching fashion, their doubts and hopes, their lessons from fashion.
MULTILOGUE MOMENTS
This series of Fashion is a great teacher brings you Provocations and a Choir of Ideas from The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2023: De-Fashioning Education; a Critical Thinking and Making Conference. We invited speakers from every continent to share their concerns, questions and ideas: Anjana Das, Mayank Mansingh Kaul, Sandra Niessen, Sunny Dolat, Otto von Busch, and Christina H. Moon, as they navigate the complexities of de-fashioning education, cultural inclusivity, sustainability, and transformative partnerships. This series invites listeners to join a global community rethinking fashion education for essential de-growth and diverse, interconnected futures.
Listen to the latest episode!
MULTILOGUE MOMENTS
Season 2 / Episode 4
Otto von Busch & Christina H. Moon on ‘Fashion & Vitality’
This episode brings you ‘Fashion & Vitality’ – the Provocation Dialogue by Otto von Busch & Christina Moon at The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2023: De-Fashioning Education – A Critical Thinking and Making Conference in Berlin.
Otto von Busch is Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons School of Design. In his research he explores how the powers of fashion can be bent to achieve a positive personal and social condition with which the Everyperson is free to grow to their full potential.
Christina Moon is an Associate Professor of Fashion Studies in the School of Art and Design History and Theory at Parsons School of Design, The New School in New York. Her most recent project on the wardrobe explores the interplay of image, clothing, text and textile through diaspora, exile, and longing.
THE FASHION EDUCATORS’ WORLD MAP
Come together! - towards a collaborative community of fashion educators. Join this global community mapping, inaugurated at The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2020
Please join on Padlet!
FASHIONING EDUCATION
Fashioning education is a collaborative research initiative to open, facilitate and formalise the debate on fashion education against the backdrop of global social transformations.
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