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Where do we learn fashion?
In our grandmother’s lap,
in the street, the club,
the market,
everywhere.
Professional fashion learning used to take place in workshops and studios, ateliers and factories. It still does. Yet, from the 19th century it also moved into colleges and universities.
Fashion education became increasingly specialized, institutionalized and intellectualized.
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As a result, we see a dualism between informal and professional fashion learning, and between vocational and tertiary education. One seems more valid than the other. One seems more worth than the other. There are severe hierarchies within fashion education that mirror and codetermine those in the professional field. Hierarchies between sites of learning, qualifications, the value of professions, the value of subsequent work, between intellectual and manual labour, between the worth of human beings and human lives. Global hierarchies and local hierarchies.
Fashion education has increasingly become inaccessible. Increasingly distinctive, discriminatory, disembodied – disconnected from the everyday.
‘Let us walk […] and envision the learning environment as an emergent and adaptable opportunity for connection and wonder.’
Let us explore walking for learning. Walking, the free and open activity we all do every day – if not in body, then in mind. Walking, not as a neutral activity, equally determined by gender, class, race, physical ability, but walking as a call to action.
Together let us explore walking to decentralize and dehierarchise fashion learning.
‘In an era of complex social and political issues
Springgray, Stephanie & Truman, Sarah E. (2019) ‘Walking in/as Publics: Editors Introduction’
in: Journal of Public Pedagogies. No. 4, p. 2
Walking to unlearn. Walking to learn.
‘You’ll never walk alone’
Gerry and the Pacemakers, 1963
Fashion education has increasingly become inaccessible. Increasingly distinctive, discriminatory, disembodied – disconnected from the everyday.
‘Let us walk […] and envision the learning environment as an emergent and adaptable opportunity for connection and wonder.’
Beavington, Lee (2021) ‘Walking Pedagogy for Science Education and More-Than-Human Connection’ in: Journal of the Canadian Association for Curriculum Studies (JCACS). Vol. 18, No. 2, p. 163.
Let us explore walking for learning. Walking, the free and open activity we all do every day – if not in body, then in mind. Walking, not as a neutral activity, equally determined by gender, class, race, physical ability, but walking as a call to action.
Together let us explore walking to decentralize and dehierarchise fashion learning.
‘In an era of complex social and political issues
– such as climate change, capitalism, and forced migration,
to name a few – there is an increasing demand for public and
community action. Further, academics continue to grapple with
ways to present research findings to non-academic audiences, while marginalized and oppressed people take up ways to transform and decolonize social and political space and institutions. To this end, walking is an ethical and political call to action.’
Springgray, Stephanie & Truman, Sarah E. (2019) ‘Walking in/as Publics: Editors Introduction’in: Journal of Public Pedagogies. No. 4, p. 2
Walking to unlearn. Walking to learn.
Walking to wonder.
Walking together.
‘You’ll never walk alone’
Gerry and the Pacemakers, 1963
THE DIGITAL MULTILOGUE ON FASHION EDUCATION 2025:
Learning to Walk / Walking to Learn: On Decentralising and Dehierarchising Learning & Teaching Fashion
Preliminary Program
Session 1
9-12 am (CET)
9-12 am (CET)
WALKING OUT
de-centralizing & de-hierarchizing learningSession 2
5-8 pm (CET)
WALKING WITH – embodied & experiential learning
5-8 pm (CET)
WALKING WITH – embodied & experiential learning
&
3-4 pm (CET)
A LOCAL GLOBAL WALK
details to follow
3-4 pm (CET)
A LOCAL GLOBAL WALK
details to follow
The sessions complement each other, but are independent.
We are looking forward to co/creating this walking-learning journey.
We are looking forward to co/creating this walking-learning journey.
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 2025 taking place?
20 November 2025
To bridge timezones this year’s Multilogue unfolds in two sessions. The sessions complement eacch other, but are indepent.
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 2025 taking place?
20 November 2025
To bridge timezones this year’s Multilogue unfolds in two sessions. The sessions complement eacch other, but are indepent.
What is it about and why?
The two-part edition of The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2025/2026 is about: Learning to Walk, Walking to Learn.
Where is it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
People are called to come together online to connect with global fashion learning communities. Anyway, everyone is invited to meet locally with friends and peers, joining the global community online.
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. Registration is open. Register here.
I have more questions, who can I ask?
Please don’t hesitate to contact us on:
multilogue@fashioneducation.org
The two-part edition of The Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education 2025/2026 is about: Learning to Walk, Walking to Learn.
Where is it happening: online / hybrid / in-person?
People are called to come together online to connect with global fashion learning communities. Anyway, everyone is invited to meet locally with friends and peers, joining the global community online.
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. Registration is open. Register here.
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.
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MULTILOGUE MOMENTS
Season 2 / Episode
Ben Barry on ‘on Unpicking jackets, instating justice and remembering the joy of fashion'
In this episode you meet Ben Barry - fashion educator, designer-researcher and academic leader who is devoted to equity, inclusion and social justice in fashion education and the fashion industry.
Fashion is a great teacher talks to him about unpicking his suit jackets and inherent notions of masculinity, transformative educational experiences and using ones’ body to navigate the complexities of institutional change. Finding liberatory pockets and fashion utopia in everyday clothing. And how it all started with him playing in his grandmother’s closet.
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
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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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