Online Fashion Systems,   

2025/2026 Syllabus

The Online Fashion Systems module explores how fashion operates within digital cultures, networks, and infrastructures. Framing aesthetic strategy as a critical and creative method, the course investigates how online systems shape meaning, identity, and value — and how practitioners can engage with, subvert, or reimagine these frameworks.

Through a mix of theory, practice, and experimentation, participants will engage with digital platforms, images, and interfaces as cultural materials. The module emphasizes digital agency and literacy, encouraging participants to see the internet not only as a medium but as a dynamic structure for connection, communication, and creation.



   
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INTRODUCTION: NAVIGATING ‘ONLINE (FASHION) SYSTEMS’


10/10/2025 
11:00 - 14:00
In this session, we embark on an exploration of fashion within the digital landscape, beginning with alternative online environments like Are.na and the Internet Phonebook. These platforms exist in the margins of the mainstream web, offering unique perspectives on how online spaces can shape aesthetic and cultural experiences. By situating fashion within these fragmented corners of the internet, we consider how infrastructure informs visual and conceptual practice, and how mystification plays a role in both fashion and technology. Participants will begin to understand the building blocks of online frameworks, setting the stage for informed engagement, critical reflection, and creative experimentation.


Key Ideas:
  • Alternative internet “universes” and their role in creative and critical thinking.
  • Infrastructure as a foundation for aesthetic experience.
  • Understanding mystification as a shared trait of both fashion and technology.
  • Reading digital frameworks to decide when to comply or subvert.


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PART of the Critical Fashion Practices MA programme at Artez University of the Arts.