HURRAY! MoBA13

Hurray! to HURRAY! exhibition with wonderful selection of emerging talents.
To mark the 60th anniversary of ArtEZ’s Fashion Department, Lidewij Edelkoort has invited 60 students from Europe’s best fashion schools to take the pulse of emerging design talent.

- ArtEZ (Arnhem): curated by Lenn Cox will
- Polimoda (Florence): curated by Linda Loppa
- Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Antwerp): curated by Walter van Beirendonck
- Central Saint Martins (London): curated by Louise Wilson
- Royal College of Art (London): curated by Iain Webb

Lidewij Edelkoort has selected ten additional students from AMFI (Amsterdam), HKU (Utrecht) and KABK (Den Haag).

http://moba.nu

The Creative Kitchen, curated by Lidewij Edelkoort

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Beyond the Body by Imme van der Haak

My work focuses on altering the human form by affecting its figure with just one simple intervention. Photos of the human body are printed onto translucent silk which will create the possibility of physically layering different body’s, ages, generations and identities. In a dance performance, the moving body manipulates the fabric so the body and the silk become one, distorting our perception or revealing a completely new physical form. The movement then brings this to life. Beyond the body brings into being an ambiguous image that intrigues, astonishes or sometimes even disturbs. 

Imme van der Haak is born in Arnhem, the Netherlands. She graduated in 2010 from Artez, the academy of arts.  (check Artez 2010 graduation report). Following this, she moved to London for a master in Product Design at London’s Royal College of Art where she graduated in 2012.
http://www.immevanderhaak.nl/


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Design For The Real World at RCA London

While I was in London at RCA 'Fashioning the City' conference I got the opportunity to visit the exhibition of MA design graduates at RCA.
It started off with a coincidence that I bumped into Alei Versppor, one of the MA textiles graduates, that I met in a project in Fortaleza (Brazil 2006) and FASHIONCLASH Brazil project. Alei Verspoor graduated with a strong concept PACK! for which she is also awarded with Sustain Award RCA 2012. 
Beside Alei Verspoor's project I found more projects with very intersting, and as the name implies relevant design concepts. 'Design for the real world' - Design can change the world.

Design for the real world
As part of the 2012 London Design Festival, the College is hosting the exhibition Design for the Real World, which takes its inspiration from the 40th anniversary of the English-language publication of Victor Papanek’s seminal text, Design for the Real World. In 1972, at a time of rampant consumerism, Papanek made a powerful case for the importance of inclusive and sustainable design in meeting the real needs of people. This exhibition explores both aspects of Papanek’s legacy. A presentation of 15 projects by Research Associates from the RCA’s Helen Hamlyn Centre for Design (HHCD) will showcase inclusive and human-centred design. This year’s projects include a community lighting project in Tower Hamlets; making roadworks safer for people with sight loss; reducing incidents of violence in A&E hospital departments; a redesign of the doctor’s bag and practical solutions for making offices more sustainable. SustainRCA, the cross-College centre for sustainability, will present a selection of sustainable design concepts by recent RCA graduates including new ideas for fashion, textiles, home products and transport. 
http://www.rca.ac.uk/

Fashioning the City conference at RCA London

Fashioning the City: Exploring Fashion Cultures, Structures, and Systems is an international inter-disciplinary conference, hosted at the Royal College of Art (RCA), London, from 19th-21st September 2012.
This conference, and its accompanying exhibition, seeks to consider, or perhaps reconsider, the changing and developing dynamics of the fashion industry in the 21st Century. The staging of this event comes at a highly significant time in the development of the fashion industry as the structures and systems of the industry as we know and recognise them today, based around a network of five ‘’Fashion Capitals’’, namely Paris, London, Milan, New York, and Tokyo, is being increasingly challenged by innovations in technology, processes of manufacturing, and a reconfiguration of what we have come to think of as ‘’Fashion Cities.’’
As Lise Skov and Marie Reigels Melchoir (2011) assert, the fashion industry today is becoming increasingly decentred and ‘’poly-centric.’’ For example, symptoms of this include images from catwalk shows which can now be broadcast live and disseminated globally, off-shore manufacturing puts into doubt the authenticity and true value of fashion products, is it still possible to trust labels such as ‘’Made in Italy’’ or ‘’Made in Britain’’?, while cities such as Amsterdam, Antwerp, Copenhagen, Barcelona, Dakar, Seoul or Sydney, amongst others, are increasingly asserting themselves as ‘’alternatives’’ to the ‘’Big Five’’ Fashion Capitals, with their own distinct fashion cultures.

Investigating the cultures, structures, and systems of the fashion industry the aim of this conference and exhibition is be both a catalyst to (re)considering these cultures, structures and systems and to act as a platform to create an open, interdisciplinary forum in which such matters can be debated.

Special Guest Speakers Included: 
- Professor Amanda Bill, Massey University, New Zealand
- Kathryn Ferguson, Fashion Film Maker, UK
Lynne Murray, Brand Director, Holition, UK
- Branko Popovic and Nawie Kuiper, FASHIONCLASH Foundation, the Netherlands
- Dr. Marie Reigels Melchior, Designmuseum Danmark, Denmark
- Stefan Siegel, Founder/Owner, Not Just A Label, UK
- Professor Lise Skov, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
- Professor Julie Sommerlund, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts – School of Design, Denmark 
- Kaat Debo, director at MoMu Antwerp 
- Professor Wendy Dagworthy, RCA London

This conference and exhibition is a project of Nathaniel Dafydd Beard, writer and curator, and currently PhD Candidate in the Department of Fashion and Textiles, School of Material, at the Royal College of Art.
http://fashioningthecity.wordpress.com/