This 12 months I took half within the trend residency Taskforce Style 2020. Taskforce Style began in 2018, as a novel, multidisciplinary and research-based collaboration between trend platforms FASHIONCLASH, M-ODE and State of Style, commissioned by and in shut collaboration with the Inventive Industries Fund NL. In co-creation with Dutch design expertise and in dialogue with the (inter)nationwide trend discipline and different disciplines, the three platforms examine the transformative function of trend in relation to social points with varied experiments.
Taskforce Style – Residency for Accountable Style
This 12 months’s residency revolved across the query “As a designer, how would you wish to take social accountability inside your apply?” Collectively, we try to make a optimistic contribution to the world round us by taking up a rising accountability; whether or not it’s by serving to the aged, preventing racism, reducing segregation or battling some other social-cultural matter that stands in the way in which of collaboration, mutual understanding and solidarity.
Collaboration and the design course of are central to Taskforce Style. For the 2020 Residency for Accountable trend fifteen trend skills have been chosen, who – each individually and in groups of 5 – zoom in on three cities within the Netherlands: Maastricht, Tilburg and Rotterdam. I used to be a part of Workforce Tilburg.
Workforce Tilburg
Workforce Tilburg investigated how trend is usually a technique of social intervention. By extending the idea of trend past clothes, with an emphasis on private fashion and id, a group venture is realised in collaboration with younger folks from the northern Tilburg district, Tilburg Noord.
We organised two photoshoots concerning the energy of variety; variety in folks and in trend types. With the assistance of an area staff, Workforce Tilburg portrayed the putting and various youth of Tilburg Noord: the outcomes, greater than 25 portraits, have been offered through the pop-up picture exhibition ‘De Stijl van Noord’ in NS16 in June 2021.
De Stijl van Noord provides the younger folks of Tilburg Noord a face. With out fuss, with out filter, however with a variety of fashion and character. No skilled fashions, however (future) function fashions. The pictures and the exhibition put these genuine younger folks from underexposed Tilburg North within the highlight in a optimistic manner.
TextielMuseum Tilburg
From January till March 2022, all three Taskforce Style tasks will we exhibited in TextielMuseum Tilburg, the identical museum the place I developed my Chromarama tapestries. The exhibition is a part of the principle exhibition Lengthy Dwell Style! and will likely be offered on the Panoramadeck, the place the TextielMuseum exhibits displays from companions. Positioned on the third flooring of the museum, there’s a fantastic view over the location, together with the chimney of the previous textile manufacturing unit.
