From 5 to 7 June, MACRO hosts Critical Fashion, a varied program of encounters, presentations, debates, workshops and contributions, on-site and online, curated by Dobrila Denegri. Involving a heterogeneous group of personalities on the international scene – curators, fashion designers, artists, researchers and teachers – who have addressed phenomena of “critical fashion”, the conference sets out to open debate on the future of fashion, seen from various perspectives. Starting with transformations in progress in the field of education, curatorial and artistic experiences will be investigated in order to explore the possibility of amplifying the interaction between the academic world, the art sector, and the fashion industry. A choral conversation envisioned as a way of making room for experimental and conceptual practices, capable of producing critical contents that assign fashion an outstanding role in the field of contemporary culture.   

 

 

5t JUNE 2024 

 

 

15:30 – 15:30 auditorium
GREETINGS AND PRESENTATION OF THE CONFERENCE BY DOBRILA DENEGRI

 

 

15:30 – 16:30 auditorium
SESSION 1: CRITICAL FASHION: HOW TO TEACH IT?

Linda Loppa, Creative Director, Curator, Opinion Leader and Advisor, Polimoda, Firenze
Clemens Thornquist, Head of Fashion Design Department, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås
Moderator: Dobrila Denegri  

 

 

17:00 – 18:00 auditorium
SESSION 2: BEYOND CLOTHES: FASHION ACTIVISM AND ITS PLATFORMS

 

Iris Ruisch, Director, State of Fashion, Arnheim
José Teunissen, Director, AMFI – Amsterdam Fashion Institute of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Moderator: Dobrila Denegri  

 

 

18:30 – 19:00 foyer
SESSION 3: PRESENTATION OF EXHIBITIVE INTERVENTIONS

 

Unsettled Matter, Manora Auersperg in collaboration with Natascha Unkart, Vienna
Excuse My Dust Series Christina Dörfler, Vienna

 

 

19:00 – 20:00 Screening, sala cinema
ROME’S PREMIERE OF DUEL (2020) BY ANNA-SOPHIE BERGER, VIENNA

 

 

6 JUNE 2024

 

 

12:00 – 13:00 rooftop of the auditorium
SESSION 4 (BY INVITATION ONLY) – BRAINSTORMING & CONVERSATIONS ON THE FUTURE OF FASHION EDUCATION

 

Romana Andò, Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication and Fashion, Department of Fashion Studies, Sapienza University, Rome
Ivana Conte, Creative & Academic Director, ILA – International Luxury Academy, Rome/London
Christina Dörfler, Lecturer, Kunst-Mode-Design, Herbststrasse, Higher Federal College of Fashion, Vienna
Linda Loppa, Creative Director, Curator, Opinion Leader and Advisor, Polimoda, Firenze
Diego Manfreda, Course Leader of the Three-year Course in Fashion Design of the Rome Campus of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
Szymon Owsiański, Lecturer, Department of Design, Faculty of Design Arts, University of Technology, Bydgoszcz
Karisia Paponi, Professor, Fashion Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Catanzaro
Clemens Thornquist, Head of Fashion Design Department, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås
José Teunissen, Director, AMFI – Amsterdam Fashion Institute of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences 

 

 

15.00 – 15:30 auditorium
GREETINGS BY LUCA LO PINTO, DIRECTOR OF MACRO, AND PRESENTATION OF THE FASHION
RELATED EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS REALIZED IN THE MUSEUM

 

 

15:30 – 17:00 auditorium
SESSION 5: CURATING INBETWEENERS. 1/2

 

Lecture + Q&A: Matthew Linde, Fashion exhibition-maker, Researcher and Writer
Anna-Sophie Berger, in conversation with Matthew Linde and Luca Lo Pinto 

 

 

17:30 – 19:00 auditorium
SESSION 5: CURATING INBETWEENERS. 2/2

 

Lecture + Q&A: Jeppe Ugelvig, Curator, Historian and Cultural critic
Tenant of Culture, in conversation with Dobrila Denegri and Jeppe Ugelvig 

 

 

19:00 – 19:30 auditorium
PRESENTATION OF THE NEW ISSUE OF VISCOSE MAGAZINE VISCOSE

 

6th issue, co-edited with Laura Gardner, is entitled TEXT and focuses on fashion as constructed through words, language and writing. From the pens of fashion journalists and art critics to the conceptual wordplay of designers, the issue delves into the aesthetic and critical effects of “writing fashion” in and outside of fashion industries 

 

 

7 JUNE 2024 

 

 

15:00 – 16:00 auditorium
ONLINE SESSION 6: SUPPORTING EXPERIMENTAL FASHION: WHY AND HOW?

 

Yuima Nakazato, Fashion designer and founder of the Fashion Frontier Program, Tokyo in conversation with Dobrila Denegri, Linda Loppa and Yuima Nakazato Laboratory

 

 

16:15 – 17:00 auditorium
SESSION 7: FASHION RESEARCH PLATFORMS

 

Elise By Olsen, Director, International Library of Fashion Research, Oslo 

 

 

17:30 – 18:30 auditorium
SESSION 8: TEACHING EXPERIMENTAL FASHION

 

Presentation of the publication Radical Fashion Exercises: A Workbook of Modes and Methods and a discussion
Laura Gardner, Editor, Lecturer and Co-publisher of Mode and Mode
Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, Lecturer, The School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne
Clemens Thornquist, Head of Fashion Design Department, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås
Jeppe Ugelvig, Curator, Historian and Cultural critic
Alessandra Vaccari, associate professor, IUAV – Venice University  

 

 

19:00 – 20:00
SESSION 9: HOW TO MAKE HISTORY: VANITY AND PLEASURE IN FASHION RESEARCH

 

Performative lecture by Dr. Matteo Augello, Fashion Theoretician and lecturer at NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti