Fashion
Matters. Beyond the canon of "Made in Italy"
lecture series
2 > 30 March 2022
Cotonificio and Palazzo Badoer
10 a.m.
online Ms Teams code:
28cp4xn
with Anneke Smelik, professor of Visual
Culture, Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands). Visiting Professor IR.IDE, Dipartimento di Culture del
Progetto, Infrastruttura di ricerca
IR.IDE
biography
Anneke
Smelik is Professor of Visual Culture at the Radboud University
Nijmegen (Netherlands). She published widely on fashion theory. Her most recent
books include Delft Blue to Denim Blue. Contemporary Dutch Fashion; Materializing
Memory in Art and Popular Culture; Thinking Through Fashion. A Guide to
Key Theorists; and a book in Dutch on cyborgs in popular culture. She is
co-editor of the journal Critical Studies in Fashion & Beauty.
lectures summary
Fashion Matters explores new paradigms of fashion cultures, by connecting the interrelated issues of climate change, technology, and identity. This new paradigm can bring the narrative of ‘Made in Italy’ beyond cultural heritage and craftmanship into the future of innovation and sustainability.
program
every Wednesday morning in March 2022, from 10 > 12.30
2 March 2022
Cotonificio, aula O2
Fashion and sustainability:
setting the stage
9 March 2022
Cotonificio, aula O2
The Anthropocene:
Posthumanism and New Materialism
16 March 2022
Palazzo Badoer, aula Tafuri
3. Posthuman Bodies
and Identities
23 March 2022
Palazzo Badoer, aula Tafuri
Wearable technology
and bio-couture
30 March 2022
Palazzo Badoer, aula Tafuri
A posthuman ethics of
care for fashion