On the day of her inaugural lecture, Daniëlle Bruggeman also presented the book Practising Solidarity, a publication she co-authored with other fashion makers, artists and scientists. The book explores how to make and wear clothes in a solidary way. It is high time to move beyond systemic de-humanization, beyond the intersectional inequalities as well as Eurocentric and exploitative approaches inherent to the current industrial fashion system. In this book, we recognize the urgency of practising more care – for other human beings, animals, organisms, species as well as more care for nature’s matter and the other material inhabitants of the earth that we live with.
Practising Solidarity offers a variety of possible answers to the question with whom or what we need to be solidary with, and how to put solidarity into practice. How can we activate radical visions and imaginations of alternative, more solidary fashion systems? And how could we respect the agency of human beings in precarious positions, while acknowledging the lives of other living (non-human) beings like animals of different species? In doing so, this book presents critical strategies, affirmative approaches and embodied practices that help to practise more solidarity for all living beings and all (living) matter related to fashion, clothing and textiles.
The book is now available at ArtEZ Press.
