Digital Hoarding, Kink Creators & Radical Fashion Exercises #11

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This newsletter was originally created and shared on 29.08.2023.

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Source: ME YOU US

#1 Empowering education: Unfolding Strategies partners with the EU funded program 'ME YOU US'

As an industry partner in the EU ‘ME YOU US’ program, we're collaborating with Designskolen Kolding, WdKA, and the University of Ljubljana to create an open-source library. The nine modules will offer fashion educators resources to incorporate digital tools like 3D virtual prototyping, AI, VR, AR into curriculums.

#2 Don’t miss out on our Fashion Knowledge podcast

Discover new and brave voices in fashion innovation, design, research, and education. Fashion Knowledge is a podcast about inclusive, sustainable, and digital fashion futures. We have released 15 episodes so far and there will be more. Don’t miss out – tune in now.

#3 Explore Beata Wilczek’s contribution in Radical Fashion Exercises book

We are thrilled to announce that Beata Wilczek is one of the contributors in the book Radical Fashion Exercises. The exercises collected in this book embrace interdisciplinarity, experimentation, and aesthetics and widen fashion’s horizons as a medium for expression, embodiment and sociality. You can find Beata’s contribution on page 211.

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Source: Unfolding Strategies

Digital Hoarding

Digital hoarding is a term used to describe the act of hoarding material or information for a later date utilizing the space by saving, archiving or storing it in some kind of digital format.^1 Digital hoarders may collect emails, photos, articles, podcasts, or any type of computer files they believe they may want to revisit in the future.^2 The opportunity to hoard digitally is increasing due to the wide availability of digital materials (e.g. files, photographs, music, apps, etc) and the abundance of cheap storage.^3 There is evidence to suggest that we can become as strongly attached to non-physical as we do to physical possessions as they become part of our identity and our sense of self.^4 Fashion will also need to address digital hoarding in the near future as it introduces an increasing number of digital products: filters, digital assets, NFTs, and memberships.^5

Sources: Cyborg Anthropology, UCLA Health, National Library of Medicine, Beata Wilczek