Designed for life

Fashioning emergent futures

Authors

  • Erica de Greef African Fashion Research Institute

Keywords:

Social change, Emergency, Textile autobiographies, Healing, Community building, Colllaborative projects, Migrant histories, Affect, Placemaking, Design for Social Change

Abstract

An exhibition review of Designed for Life that coincided with the opening of the new London College of Fashion (LCF) campus at UAL’s new East Bank home on Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in October 2023. Exploring the exhibition's diverse projects employing textiles, design, film, photography, artefacts, testimonies and community building, the review considers both the affect of witnessing and the transformative power of creative action for a future fashion system that will expand the possibilities for people to live well together in a more-than-human world, will shift the contemporary narratives of emergency, to (k)new narratives of emergence towards radically new ways of living.

Textile banners and manifestos for a compassionate future co-created in the ‘Decolonising Fashion and Textiles’ project.

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Published

29-05-2024

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 1 (2024): Special issue on decentring design: crafting shifts, in and through fashion

Section

Articles

License

Copyright (c) 2024 Erica de Greef

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How to Cite

Designed for life: Fashioning emergent futures. (2024). DISCERN: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 5(1), 11-22. https://www.designforsocialchange.org/journal/index.php/DISCERN-J/article/view/154