Making Histories: Pluriverse Perspectives on Fashion & Textile Design Studies. Contributions from Year One students (AY 2021/22)
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author(s): Shanna Soh, Simon Veldkamp, Marijn Brinksma, Renée Buitendijk, Laura Garnier, Kim Gemmink, Carina Georgescu, June Gibbs, Jungyun Jang, Emma Lobina, Riet Pedro, Bas Pol, Hiromu Takeshita, Marie Eve Vedrines, Nora Vervat, Noah Warmer, Zhenyi Zhou
This exposition is in progress.
This exhibition is co-created by Year One students (2021/22) from the department of Fashion and Textile in The Royal Academy of Art, The Hague (KABK) after attending a series of lectures examining the historical study of Fashion & Textile design from constructivistic perspectives.
This exhibition showcases a spectrum of practice-based research, ranging from imagined narratives from the past; to observations on the global cultural impact of (digital) fashion and music; to attempts in addressing gaps of knowledge and imbalances in the eco-system of fashion & textile in the past, present & future.
In order to preserve the ephemeral nature of students' explorations in art & design education setting and in the spirit of Arturo Escobar's vision on the Pluriverse, students are given the freedom to propose their topic of choice and to deepen their knowledge as independently as possible. Guidance was given only when sought. In line with retaining the integrity of students' works, no interventions were made to student' contributions in this exhibition.
Author / Curator Shanna Soh; Co-creators Riet Pedro, Emma Lobina, Carina Georgescu, Jungyun Jang, Noah Warmer, Renee Buitendlijk, Simon Veldkamp, Hiromu Takeshita, Zhenyi Zhou, Laura Garnier, Marie-Eve Verdrines, Bas Pol, Marijn Brinksma, Kim Gemmink, June Gibbs.
*New Romantics*
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author(s): Emma Lobina, Georgescu Carina, Riet Pedro, Jungyun Jang
This exposition is in progress.
The idea of our assignment is to take the New Romantic movement as a starting point to do some research, to collect some items from our own closet and thrift additional pieces based on our research. The goal we are aiming for is to see the audience's reactions on this unconventional way of dressing taken from the seventies into our era.
We want to see the different perspectives from different age categories. In order to achieve that we interviewed from youngsters to eldest.
The result was that their reaction was different from our expectation. We expected that they would be more in shock. But instead they were more positive and even encouraged people to dress more like this.
