EVENTS
We believe that we work best when we are openly sharing and discussing ideas together. As such, we aim to champion research events and initiatives that will provide opportunity for everyone within and without IML to share ideas, however formative or developed these may be.
We believe this is the way to nourish innovative research agendas, with uncommon academic and industry partnerships for unlimited betterment of the fashion industry. This openness will allow us the means to ‘find’ futures for ourselves rather than merely responding to widely endorsed templates of the future conducted elsewhere.
Meet the Team
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Listening for the Echoes: heritage knowledges to shape fashion and design futures symposium
May 2025
Symposium page with recordings
Keywords: heritage, indigenous, TEK, regenerative fashion and design futures, sustainability, craft, community, making, place making, decolonised practices
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Making Sense Exhibition
February 2025
Exhibition page with recording
Keywords: thinking through making; making sense; practice research; sustainable futures; people and planet; heritage; local knowledges.
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Creative Practice as Research Panel Discussion
February 2025
A panel discussion with Michelle Lowe-Holder, Nick Clements, Clare Lopeman and Rafael El Baz, moderated by Kirsten Scott.
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The Future of Fashion Education: Speculation, Experience and Collaboration
January 2025
A book growing out of our IML Future of International Fashion and Design Education Symposium that took place in 2022. Seventeen essays by cosmopolitan thinkers, academics, activists and designers exploring new challenges and potentials for fashion education.
They constitute an interrelated array of short manifestos, case studies and lengthier and more sustained overviews of the imminent crises and prospective challenges that face fashion practitioners and educators.
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IML Provocations Fashion and Degrowth
November 2024
The first in a series of student-led Provocation evenings took place on 11th November, 2024. Provocation evenings provide an informal space for students and tutors to hear from an expert on a topic that sparks critical thinking and has the potential to inform research. Sara Arnold, a founder member of activist groups Extinction Rebellion Fashion, Fashion Act Now and who has just set up the Our Common.Market platform, was our first provocateur.
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Untangling Design Purpose Symposium
April 2024
Symposium page with recordings
An online design symposium hosted by Istituto Marangoni London and Macromedia Munich. The overarching goal was to explore new potentials of design for a hypercomplex world, transcending its origins and problematics, and harnessing its capacity to evolve into a potent, pluriversal catalyst for the regeneration and transformation of people and planet. Keynotes by Prof. Jonathan Chapman and Prof. Caroline Hummels.
Keywords: design futures, symbiocene, global citizens, responsibility, critical design, commoning, pluriverse, regeneration, interconnection.
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REGENERATING fASHION?
March 2024
This half-day in-person symposium, drew people together to explore complex questions. There were shared experiences and lively discussions as we sought potential solutions towards a regenerative fashion system. Presenters: Safia Minney, Alice Robinson, Zoe Gilbertson, Isabella Goggin, Jo Salter.
Keywords: regenerating fashion, systems thinking, soil-to-skin, natural fibres, cultural regeneration.
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REGENERATING fASHION? workshop
March 2024
A lively World Cafe style workshop addressing questions around what regenerative practices might look like across fashion design, fashion business, and fashion image and PR.
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The Future of International Fashion and Design symposium
September 2022
Symposium page with recordings
This one-day online symposium hosted by Istituto Marangoni London brought together academics from all over the world to consider the new skills, knowledge and values that fashion and design graduates might need for a future that may be unrecognisable from the past or from present, and which may require new pedagogical approaches. Keynote: Bel Jacobs.
Keywords: International Fashion and Design Education; Decolonization; Global Citizens; Responsibility; New Paradigms; Holistic Thinking; Ethics; Digital Technologies; Critical Thinking; Collaboration; Futuring.
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Responsible Fashion: How Do We Make Ideas a Reaity? symposium
November 2021
Symposium page with recordings
What do we actually want to sustain about fashion? What new approaches do we need now?
This one-day, online symposium offers an opportunity to explore solutions together: a space to propose radical new ways to envisage fashion design and creation, and to reimagine the systems in which we source, produce, communicate, sell, purchase, wear, live with and dispose of fashion. Keynote: Kristine Harper.