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DESCRIPTION
Fashions’ digital dimension, beholds a wide variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and collectives, that are scattered all around the internet, and use different vernaculars. In its wake lie a manifold of underexposed, independent, critical and networked ways of approaching, working with and through digitized forms of fashion. The Literacy Index aims to highlight, and give insight to, a wide variety of digital (design) practices, provide tools that help promote digital literacy, and facilitate a growing network of individuals & collectives from different disciplines, in order to actively question and assess fashion’s online realm through the following levels;
➊ sources; literary/artistic references. Giving insight in the past, present and future of ongoing practices & projects that orbit around the crossover between digital culture and/or fashion.
➋ methods; tools or workshops. Gathering tools that specifically attribute to the development of digital literacy. Encouraging to self-educate, and critically navigate the digital space.
➌ spaces; communities & public programmes. Looking beyond the individual practices, by highlighting the existing connective tissue that questions are raised, external input is collected and critical discourse is expedited
DESCRIPTION
This online database that provides a look into the manifold of compartmentalised practices that investigate fashions’ digital realm. These range from educational programs focusing on digitised forms of material development and fashions’ translation within virtual reality, to critical and independent practices that investigate and look beyond the material product fashion provides, such as value production, the impact of distorted images on our online identity, and the ability to self-publish online as form of hacking traditional fashion media.
This index intends to highlight a growing collection of initiatives and shed light on the dynamic fabric that fashions online environment upholds. By centring, connecting, these modes of doing, making and experiencing fashion and opening these up for debate, we’re able to explore a new type of criticism. One that veers away from an elitist form of critique that is generated top down, and towards a mode that is inquisitive, is born through a trickle up approach, and upholds a participatory and emancipatory format.
The different levels within the index make it possible for different audiences to engage, learn and connect with its content. Some of the subcategories will be highly specific, and some of the content will be approachable for a larger, non-academic audience. Even though the index is tailored towards a specific margin of interest, the fact that almost everybody encounters fashion digitally on a day to day basis, makes it important to take a broad non-professional-but-still-interested audience into account.
DESCRIPTION
This project was born from pure personal necessity and frustration. It is a result of archiving notes, creating spreadsheets, collecting books, indexing urls and filling the clouds’ capacity with screenshots in order to keep track of developments that live in-between the margins of fashion and digital culture.
The Literacy Index was made possible with the help of Stimuleringsfonds Creatieve Industrie, and would not have been possible without the help of many amazing creatives, coders and critics that have lent there insights and expertise in the process.
GRAPHIC-DESIGN
Kimberley ter Heerdt
WEB DEVELOPMENT
Artemis Gryllaki
EDITOR
Name Surname
ADVICE
Hanka van der Voet
& Beata Wilczek