Fashion Education: The Systemic Revolution - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1789386438 ISBN 13: 9781789386431

Publisher: Intellect Books, 2023

Synopsis

Fashion Education explores how the classroom can transform the fashion industry towards body inclusion and social justice.

The book is a collection of 17 essays by fashion educators from Australia, Canada, the US and the UK who recount their experiences, struggles and strategies of reimagining the exclusive foundation of fashion pedagogy and redesigning fashion curricula to centre Indigenous, Black, brown, fat, disabled, trans and queer worldviews, histories and bodies.

This is the first book to explore the relationships between fashion pedagogy and social justice, and to map out new pedagogical frameworks and tools to redistribute power through fashion education. It shares the teaching practices of fashion educators implementing radical pedagogies and offers practical case studies that engage with a number of intersectional positions.

Fashion Education engages with current pressing concerns for educators and is a valuable teaching resource for fashion educators – both theory and practice – working in art and design schools in Europe, the US and the UK. 

With chapters covering fashion theory, history, business, communication and design curricula to centre Indigenous, Black, brown, fat, disabled, trans, queer worldviews, histories and peoples it will appeal directly to the many disciplines within fashion. The discussions are also relevant to educators in other art, design and creative fields also looking to centre inclusion in their courses and the strategies presented will apply to them.

Contributions from Tanveer Ahmed, Kevin Almond, Avalon Acaso, Ben Barry, Mal Burkinshaw, Johnathan Clancy, Robin J. Chantree, Deborah A. Christel, Brittany Dickinson, Greg Climer, Bianca Garcia, Denise Nicole Green, Alicia Johnson, Lucy Jones, Grace Jun, Carmen Keist, Riley Kucheran, Michael Mamp, Krys Osei, Lauren Downing Peters, Alexis Quinney, Kelly L. Reddy-Best, Austin Reeves, Joshua Simon, Colleen Schindler-Lynch, Brandon Spencer and Sang Thai

About this title

About the Author

Ben Barry is dean and associate professor of equity and inclusion in the School of Fashion at Parsons School of Design, The New School. Using qualitative, arts and creative methods, his scholarship explores the relationship between masculinities, fat and disabled bodies, and fashion. His research also investigates the intersections between fashion education and social justice. Alongside Sinéad Burke, Ben is the co-convenor of the Parsons Disabled Fashion Student Program, a recruitment, scholarship and mentorship initiative that aims to support disabled people’s entry into fashion design careers.

Contact: Parsons School of Design, The New School, 66 West 12th Street, New York, NY 10011, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Intellect Books
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1789386438
• ISBN 13: 9781789386431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 352
• Editor: Barry Ben, Christel Deborah A.