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Straying Together: An intersectional feminist approach to fashion design in the climate emergency
Linnaeus University, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Design.
2022 (English)Independent thesis Advanced level (degree of Master of Fine Arts (Two Years)), 20 credits / 30 HE creditsStudent thesis [Artistic work]
Sustainable development
Not refering to any SDG
Abstract [en]

This design project investigates how intersectional feminist politics can be applied to challenge the fast fashion industry in the context of the climate and ecological emergency (CEE). Here fashion is understood as all that we use to visually craft our identities, an expanded conceptualisation that removes the problematic modern-traditional (or Western-Other) binary. The dominant fashion model is contextualised in a global capitalist system driven by an economic growth agenda that is reliant on exploited labour and material throughput surpassing planetary boundaries. During Fashion Revolution Week, the author undertook an action research process to expose the asymmetric relations embedded in fashion systems of provision, and to propose a transition towards non-exploitative relations. The resulting design proposals are intended as an advanced starting point for a systemic re-making of fashion from a holistic sustainability perspective. The author and a small team of colleagues 'stray together' (Mareis and Paim, 2021, p. 21) from traditional design processes, resulting in a series of creative, educational and social events that bring together a community oriented towards change.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2022. , p. 46
Keywords [en]
fashion, activism, climate emergency, action research, feminism, design politics, design justice
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Design
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URN: urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-115939OAI: oai:DiVA.org:lnu-115939DiVA, id: diva2:1690919
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Fashion Revolution
Subject / course
Design
Educational program
Design + Change, 180 hp
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Available from: 2022-08-30 Created: 2022-08-28 Last updated: 2025-02-24Bibliographically approved

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