This episode is a conversation with author, designer, researcher, educator and visionary Dr. Otto Von Busch. His research explores the emergence of a new hactivist designer role in fashion known as fashion hactivism - a term he coined almost 20 years ago. His seminal texts on the subject questions the current fashion system and encourages alternate practices that make fashion more participatory and more fashion-able.
We spend some time expanding upon fashion hactivism and how it has evolved over the years. His observations and insights sheds light into areas that are often left unsaid yet on the same token brings forth a truth on what really makes fashion vital. We further discuss emotions in relation to the body and how this awareness has the ability to transform role of the fashion designer to support you to grow as a user, as a consumer.
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Dr. Otto von Busch is associate professor of Integrated Design, School of Design Strategies. In his research he explores the emergence of a new hacktivist designer role in fashion, cultivating "fashion-abilities" amongst users. In his research he explores how the fashion designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations, anxiety and fear, into a collective experience of empowerment and liberation. In such practice, fashion is reverse engineered, hacked and shared among many participants as a form of civic engagement, or "fashion-ability," a skill rather than product.
Von Busch's perspective on fashion is based in its emotional grounding in the body, that fashion is something we feel more than follow. This gives a radically different approach to sustainability, as it shifts the locus and agency of fashion to the user, rather than the dictates of influencers or the fashion industry. By putting the emotional grounding of fashion in focus, designers can focus on the experience of fashion amongst users, rather than the promotion of trends and number of units sold, thus better preparing us to shift fashion from craft and mass-production towards experiences of biosocial growth and a sense of aesthetic agency.
To articulate this perspective on fashion, von Busch has over the last decade examined alternative perspectives on fashion, varying from Buddhism, mysticism, tantrism and witchcraft, to examining fashion as an embodied emotion and biosocial energy, utlizing the lenses of biology, psychology and neuroscience.
His latest publications include The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion, (Bloomsbury 2020), and The Dharma of Fashion: A Buddhist Approach to Our Life with Clothes, (Schiffer 2020).
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The podcast is independently developed and produced. It is through your support that will help us continue to create meaningful and impactful content.
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Music by: Interior Design https://inter
This episode is a conversation with author, designer, researcher, educator and visionary Dr. Otto Von Busch. His research explores the emergence of a new hactivist designer role in fashion known as fashion hactivism - a term he coined almost 20 years ago. His seminal texts on the subject questions the current fashion system and encourages alternate practices that make fashion more participatory and more fashion-able.
We spend some time expanding upon fashion hactivism and how it has evolved over the years. His observations and insights sheds light into areas that are often left unsaid yet on the same token brings forth a truth on what really makes fashion vital. We further discuss emotions in relation to the body and how this awareness has the ability to transform role of the fashion designer to support you to grow as a user, as a consumer.
For more information on our guest:
Dr. Otto von Busch is associate professor of Integrated Design, School of Design Strategies. In his research he explores the emergence of a new hacktivist designer role in fashion, cultivating "fashion-abilities" amongst users. In his research he explores how the fashion designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations, anxiety and fear, into a collective experience of empowerment and liberation. In such practice, fashion is reverse engineered, hacked and shared among many participants as a form of civic engagement, or "fashion-ability," a skill rather than product.
Von Busch's perspective on fashion is based in its emotional grounding in the body, that fashion is something we feel more than follow. This gives a radically different approach to sustainability, as it shifts the locus and agency of fashion to the user, rather than the dictates of influencers or the fashion industry. By putting the emotional grounding of fashion in focus, designers can focus on the experience of fashion amongst users, rather than the promotion of trends and number of units sold, thus better preparing us to shift fashion from craft and mass-production towards experiences of biosocial growth and a sense of aesthetic agency.
To articulate this perspective on fashion, von Busch has over the last decade examined alternative perspectives on fashion, varying from Buddhism, mysticism, tantrism and witchcraft, to examining fashion as an embodied emotion and biosocial energy, utlizing the lenses of biology, psychology and neuroscience.
His latest publications include The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion, (Bloomsbury 2020), and The Dharma of Fashion: A Buddhist Approach to Our Life with Clothes, (Schiffer 2020).
Website Links:
#TMR
The Material Revolution
http://thematerialrevolution.com
contact us: info@materialrevolution.com
IG: https://www.instagram.com/the.material.revolution/
The podcast is independently developed and produced. It is through your support that will help us continue to create meaningful and impactful content.
Patreon page to make pledge: https://www.patreon.com/thematerialrevolution
Music by: Interior Design https://inter