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         <p class="about-label>DESCRIPTION</p>
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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"> The Softwear Directory acts as a resource library positioned at the intersection of fashion, digital culture and artistic research. It aims to highlight and provide insight into a wide variety of digital (design) practices through the sharing of sources, tools and meeting spaces.  </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">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.</p>
        <p class="about-main-text about-bullets">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</p>
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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>As our digital dimension presents a wide variety of multidisciplinary practitioners and collectives scattered across the internet, we can find many underexposed, independent, critical and networked ways of approaching, working with and through digitised forms of culture, fashion and identity tucked away in its crevices. This directory offers a glimpse into the diversity of siloed practices that use different vernaculars, but can be indirectly linked as a collective creative body as they explore (parts of) our digital realm in personal and novel ways.
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         <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>
         <p class="about-more-text>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.</p>
         <p class="about-more-text>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.</p>
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