Fashioning Sustainment: Histories of Resourcefulness, Reuse and Creative Ingenuity in 20th Century Fashion and Dress

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Organised by Dr Alex Nora Esculapio, Dr Annebella Pollen and Dani Trew, with support from the Centre for Design History (CDH) at University of Brighton, UK, this free online conference aims to explore histories of resourcefulness, reuse, creative ingenuity, remaking, repair, durability, mending and sharing in twentieth century fashion and dress.

The conference mobilises design theorist Tony Fry’s concept of ‘sustainment’ (2003) as a practice of sustaining life and the material world which challenges the entanglement of the concept and practice of sustainability with Eurocentric modernity, economic growth and a techno-functionalist understanding of the world. It explores dress and fashion histories that can make critical contributions to sustainable futures, understood as futures which can be sustained. Thus, the conference aims to refocus our attention to practices that have taken place before the development of the concept of sustainability, alongside or outside of established sustainable industry practices, and at the periphery of and beyond the West and the Global North.
Periode21 jan. 202222 jan. 2022
BegivenhedstypeKonference
PlaceringBrighton, StorbritannienVis på kort
Grad af anerkendelseInternational