Day 1 — Tuesday, November 7th
The Political, Cultural and Economic Dimensions of Clothing: From Sustainability and Production Concepts to affecting and even shaping Social Values
Designing clothes is an exceptionally creative and equally problem-solving discipline, responding to and even shaping social, cultural and technological developments. Today, we even widen the range of clothes‘ practical communicative and social functions by implementing new technologies, experimenting with novel materials, and realigning the production process. Doing so influences every area of our society and our lives. So how do we want to understand, define, cultivate and research clothing‘s current role in society?This Track explores the political dimension of clothing, and the recent part clothing holds in society through new production strategies, materials, clothing concepts, and research approaches. How do we choose to understand and reinvent ourselves through our clothes and create our future?
This Track will provide a multifaceted view of sustainability, the production process and costumer experiences and examine the political, social and cultural layers traversing them. The keynote lecture will open the conference with an illumination of production structures from a feministic perspective.
Afterwards, we will explore the essential political and social dimension of clothing influenced from recent history in modern Japan and India and the cultural layers of dress and costume though the lens of contemporary presentation in museum and theatres.
PROGRAMME
10:15 – 10:30 (CET) – Welcome and Opening by Martin Jess
10:30 – 11:15 (CET) – Keynote Lecture by Prof. Elisabeth Eppinger: Sustainability: The new fertilizer for innovation in apparel? Illuminating production structures with a feminist perspective
11:15-11:45 (CET) – Nele Sofie Winkler: An analysis of the customer experience with menstrual underwear
Break
13:00 – 13:30 (CET) – Erica Tso: Cloaked in Modernity: Unveiling the Fashion Revolution of Modern Japanese Women
13:30 – 14:00 (CET) – Stephanie Harris: Dressing the Sun: Costume Design and Reception in Philip Glass’s Opera
14:00 – 14:30 (CET) – Rachel Cotton: Dressing Irtyru – an Ancient Egyptian Bag Tunic in West Berkshire Museum, UK
Break
15:00 – 15:30 (CET) – Morgan Lemmer Webber: A Textile Historian’s Guide to Suddenly Needing to Make her own Clothing
15:30 – 16:00 (CET) – Pragya Sharma: The Indian Blouse: Charting Influences and Contradictions
16:00 – 16:30 (CET) – Closing Session
