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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Assemble-Your-Own-Reader

This reader is a time capsule-in-progress. It contains the interpretations, thoughts and questions that arose during discursive sessions held as part of the Online Fashion Systems module within the MA programme in Critical Fashion Practices at ArtEZ University of the Arts. Acting somewhat like a screenshot, it captures a moment of collective thought and provides an opportunity to ponder and reflect. It also offers a temporary anchor for ideas within the context of continuous digital overload.

The essays collected here are the outcome of the sessions, and emerge from this moment of pause. Each year, the module invites a new cohort of thinkers to share their insights and personal experiences of navigating the intersection between their digital environments and their evolving critical fashion praxis. Topics range from explorations of the self and the digital tools we use to ways of escaping algorithmic interference and discovering alternative online communities.

As our study module grows, so does its output. We therefore invite you to develop your own reader alongside it, and encourage you to compile your own (ever-expanding) collection; whether curated around a specific topic or point of interest, or based on random selections that pique your curiosity. By assembling these texts, you are cultivating a living collection that places seemingly separate voices in conversation and supports the ongoing evolution of your own.

Browse the archive below, select your texts, and download the ready-to-print files.

When printing, make sure to select double-sided, flip on long edge, and set the page scale to 100% for best readability. Any print dialogue window will work, though Acrobat PDF Reader is the optimal choice.

Assemble your reader: stack, perforate, bind. (Add a cover if you wish ~ or don’t..)

Enjoy your copy. Annotate freely, highlight, fold pages, share with others and return to it over time.

23/24

Chinouk Filique de Miranda
navigating online fashion systems (module introduction 23/24)

Alexis MersmannIs our Digitisation the Death of Tacit Knowledge?

Carolina Sepulveda Acevedo
Digital Spaces as an Expression of the Organic World

Giulia Coluccello
My Experience of the Internet seen through the Lens of a Metaphor.

Marco Blazevic
Navigating Digital Anxiety in the Digital Landscape.

Miruna Vlad
Navigating Fashion Realms: Exploring the Intersection of Commerce and (Design) Philosophy through the Websites of Fashion Practices.

Xingyun Shen
“The Word is my Fourth Dimension”

24/25

Chinouk Filique de Miranda
to build a glossary is to build a bridge(module introduction)

Anna Trevisan
The Undressed Body in the Age of Deepfakes.

Charlie Dröge
Practices of Digital Anti-Digitalism: The Return System.

Gaia Cesarin
Literally… Digital Literacy.

Inez van Kessel
Aesthetics and Authenticity in the Digital Realm.

Jeanne Roest
(un)Muting the Visual Object: The Digital Interface as a Collective Space for Interpretation.

Mathilda Tiarks
Home in Digital and Non-Digital Space.

Maya Gawel
A Network of Digital Roots.

Ramy Toma
Hybrid Realities: Navigating the Intersection of Digital Manifestations.

Sarah Kehr
Notions of becoming.

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