↳ is a semi-professional screenshotter, design researcher, critical fashion practitioner and currently a Professional Doctorate candidate at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
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The Softwear Directory acts as a resource library positioned at the intersection of fashion, digital culture and artistic research. It aims to highlight and provide insight into a wide variety of digital (design) practices through the sharing of sources, tools and (meeting) spaces.
This project is brought to fruition with through collaboration with Artemis Gryllaki and Kimberley ter Heerdt.
Fashion is inextricably linked to digital culture, and digital media have opened up new possibilities for fashion consumption. As this expansive virtual space invites us to continually (re)shape our identities online, my PD research unravels and reconfigures the methods of resistance practices that live on the margins of online cultures - in the hope of discovering what different forms of digital agency in fashion might look like.
This project is carried out within the context of the Fashion Professorship led by dr. Danielle Bruggeman at ArtEZ University of the Arts.
a podcast periodical that unpacks different perspectives on fashion by inviting people and practices we admire and want to know more about, but also ones we might not fully understand and have a lot of questions about. A pilot season of three episodes is now live on all Podcast platforms, and via the Warehouse website.
The journal's first ever issue produced by a guest editor, combines a wide variety of perspectives on how fashion and digital cultures engage and intertwine, and how this affects (independent) fashion practices. It features contributions by, Cinzia Magnani, Maud Acheampong, Chet Julius, Maria Spadoni Battistoni, Jasmine Bacchus and many more.
Invited by amy pickles & Sofia Boschat Thorez. The Colonial Infrastructures worksessions intend to be moments of collective learning to make tangible invisible colonial mechanisms of hierarchy and oppression that are prevalent in everyday communication technologies, yet often difficult to comprehend. The session facilitates collective research into, and consideration of, current citation practices in relation to fashion.
This research-through-making- session, held during the De-fashioning Education Conference, hosted during the Multi-logue Conference, considers ways in which multi-authored aesthetics can be recognized and underscored. Through digital tools and templates, participants will reassess their online visual language to (re)acknowledge the lineage of inspiration in fashion, collaboration with Julia Kaleta.
This workshop was carried out multiple acrross various networks and timezones : ArtEZ University, Mozzfest, State of Fashion intervention #3. In this workshop participants looked into their position as a user-consumer within your personal digital landscape. By investigating ‘scrolling behaviour’ while using new media platforms and its algorithms, in order to analyse your personal digital footprint, they try to find and highlight interrelated (subliminal) commercial structures.
Co-curator alongside Enzo Aït Kaci, Lotte de Jager, Jonathan Ho & Boris Kollar. This exhibition grew out of a residency period, and unpacked how (re) sources from the past, act in the present and create new contexts for the future. The show exhibition ongoing and work-in-progress pieces from 17 different practitioners.
A panel talk alongside Kathy Moscou, Jason Edward Lewis and and Milan Tanedjikov, moderated by Raphaël Viens discussing the reality of teaching to the future generation of designers.
in conversation with Femke de Vries, as part of Digital Fashion Symposium, a collaboration between Parsons, the New School and London College of Fashion
part of the Messyverse, a festival, art exhibition and context program, focused on self-expression, representation and identity within new digital worlds held at Felix Meritis. Talk hosted by Giancarlo Pazzanese and in conversation with Tumelo Setlaba.
For the launch of Booklook #2, I moderated a conversation between Mika Perlmutter, Lejla Vala Verheus, Alessandra Varisco & Anouk Beckers.
part of Transparance_Transparency Symposium at Ecole Superieur de Mode, UQAM
part of Suppa Soup Sessions, hosted by the Advertising & Beyond department.
Round table talk curated by Warehouse as part of State Of Fashion, on the agency of fashion practitioners and the creating of disruptive cycles and alternatives approach to fashion, alongside Dr. Monica Titton,
Aïcha Abbadi, Shanzhai Lyric and T’ai Smith.
exploring colonial roots of mental health risks related to fashion, including a disconnection from the materials our clothes are made of, an ever-ongoing pressure to stay on top of trends, limited notions of Western beauty, alongside Pak Chiu, Patricia Brien, Joline Jolink and moderated by Yophi Ignacia.
a lecture and panel as part of the Virtual Symposium hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Smithsonian Design Museum
Paper presentation as part of the Fashion Tales Conference, hosted by Modacult & Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.
Paper presentation during the Responsible Fashion Series, an International Fashion Colloquium hosted by University of Antwerp.
Edited by Laura Gardner and Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran.
A piece of patchwork writing that dives into the uniting of (fashion) protesters through decentralised narratives enabled by the internet, part of Press&Fold #2 : the Resistance Issue.
A critical exploration of the cultivation of critique in the online comment section, part of Warehouse Review 002 | A review of reviews.
Longread on computational capital in fashion and (false) identity creation through algorithmic apophenia.
An essay exploring the female perspective on the garments’ strategic competence, published by Het Nieuwe Instituut as part of ‘the Hoodie’ exhibition, curated by Lou Stoppard.
This thesis explores the digitisation of fashion and our digital agency as consumers.
by Rianne van der Molen, part of Boekman magazine #135 issue.
by Marjolein Stormezand
In this four year trajectory, I investigate the intertwining of fashion and our virtual landscape, and the implications for our digital capacity to act. It focuses on identity in the digital age and the extent to which people possess the possibilities to construct different forms of subjectivity. The aim is to contribute to larger developments in an increasingly global and digital society, such as new forms of consumerism, capital and cultural value.
With a focus on concepting and communication, 4th year students conduct a design research trajectory grounded in theory & practise to conclude their graduation projects.
the Disruption office ; A futurist Urban Culture consulting and design firm, that draws from street culture as a continuously transformingparameter of society. The language, taste and worldview of urbanites is increasingly shaped by the culture from our immigrant neighborhoods. We sample the heritage of postcolonial Superdiverse cities and translate this into projects and products that make cities future ready.
As part of the YoutDem trajectory, a multi-year project that aims to make the dynamic but often precarious ecologies where youth culture is loved more sustainable. It is a platform for and by young people, and the development of young cultural makers is its central focus.
This research was commissioned by the Tech & Innovation branch of the Municipality of Amsterdam, in which a new validation process was conceived the interpretation of online slang used amongst online subcultures.
A 10 month reorganisation project in which a new community structure and toolkits were created, and tested throughout various OBA locations in the city of Amsterdam.
Design Research collective, creative partnership between the OBA and the Municipality of Amsterdam.
for the Softwear Directory
Graduated Cum Laude from Critical Fashion Practices Programme.