‘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 invited 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 invited 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 was a collective experience. People met in-person in a location of their choice and joined the Multilogue as a group. Or, joined alone to connect with the global community online.
PROVOCATION
Rahemur Rahman
„The joy of pain, the pain of joy“
Rahemur Rahman is a multi-talented artist, designer, filmmaker, and lecturer who is making waves in his field. His work delves into the challenges of heritage and contemporary material and spatial design, often at the intersection of craft-based disciplines. Drawing from his lived experience as a South Asian Muslim gay man who grew up below the poverty line in East London, Rahman's work is deeply rooted in the narratives of everyday life. Rahman’s practice is characterized by a strong emphasis on storytelling, which he achieves through a diverse range of skills acquired through his education at Central Saint Martins, as well as his experience working with renowned institutions like Louis Vuitton and the Victoria and Albert Museum. He brings a unique perspective to his work that reflects his commitment to social knowledge and community engagement, using his platform to give voice to underrepresented communities. In recognition of his outstanding contributions to the field, Rahman has been nominated for numerous awards, including the Changemaker's Prize by the British Fashion Council in 2022, and the Outstanding Contribution award by the British Bangladeshi Fashion Council in 2019 and 2022.
MEDITATION
Alexandra Jones
The Multilogue invited Alexandra for guiding a short meditation on letting go.
Alexandra Jones is a yoga and meditation guide with an MA in Yoga Studies and a personal background rooted in Tibetan Buddhism. After working in LA's wellness industry for a number of years, she decided to move to Paris to pursue the MA in Global Communications program at AUP. Her research has focused on exploring mindful approaches to fashion media and finding creative ways to return to the present moment.
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 was the Multilogue 2024 taking place?
10 October 2024, 6-9 pm (CEST)
What was it 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 invited 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 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 was the Multilogue 2024 taking place?
10 October 2024, 6-9 pm (CEST)
What was it 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 invited to come together to grieve – to acknowledge, accept and act. Come together to explore the power of mutual learning.
Where was it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
People were called to come together locally whilst learning from and connecting with global fashion learning communities. We invited participants to meet locally, joining the global community online at the beginning and the end of the Multilogue. This was the recipe for the Multilogue 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 was 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 could participate?
Everyone. The Multilogues are always open-access and free for all. As should all education be! And, as Everyone is a fashion learner.
I have more questions, who can I ask?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on: multilogue@fashioneducation.org
People were called to come together locally whilst learning from and connecting with global fashion learning communities. We invited participants to meet locally, joining the global community online at the beginning and the end of the Multilogue. This was the recipe for the Multilogue 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 was 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 could participate?
Everyone. The Multilogues are always open-access and free for all. As should all education be! And, as Everyone is a fashion learner.
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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