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<p class="about-main-text">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;</p> | <p class="about-main-text">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;</p> | ||
<p class="about-main-text about-bullets">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. | <p class="about-main-text about-bullets">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. | ||
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<p class="about-more-text>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.</p> | <p class="about-more-text>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.</p> | ||
<p class="about-more-text>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.</p> | <p class="about-more-text>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.</p> | ||