De-hierarchising Fashion Education With the Help of Mycelium Networks

ArtEZ University teachers, Hanka van der Voet and Chet Bugter, discuss their recent open source paper: A Fruiting Body Of Collective Labour: Working Towards A De-Hierarchised System For Fashion Education. The document looks to the collaborative world of fungi and mycelium networks to find inspiration for de-hierarchised models of fashion education. We’ll learn how lichen networks influenced their approach to the management of the Critical Fashion Practices Master’s course and discuss how fashion designers, entrepreneurs and practitioners can encourage more collaborative ways of working.

1. A Fruiting Body Of Collective Labour: Working Towards A De Hierarchized System For Fashion Education by Hanka van der Voet and Chet Bugter, Published by MA Critical Fashion Practices, ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem, 2022.
2. Calling out Dutch Art Institutions
3. Fantastic Fungi - documentary by Louie Schwartzberg and Mark Monroe available on Netflix
4. The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins by Anna Tsing

Guests

Hanka van der Voet and Chet Bugter, ArtEZ University of the Arts Arnhem

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Podcast music & production: Emmanuel Corre