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This paper reflects on I:OBJECT, a year-long practical research, which attempts to uncover the potential for a fashion practice that does not focus on the production of clothes but rather sees fashion as a testing ground to understand our social bodies. Fashion is investigated through redirective and anti-disciplinary approaches and tested in particular through experimental digital and physical making strategies. Arguing that a critical fashion practice is possible, this work shows how to disrupt and reconfigure the use of tools, techniques and technologies commonly used in fashion.
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Thiel, K. (2017). I:OBJECT—Or the Case for Fashion Without Products. In: Broadhurst, S., Price, S. (eds) Digital Bodies. Palgrave Studies in Performance and Technology. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-95241-0_11
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