Creatives, practitioners, designers, and artistic researchers are engaging in a participatory practice of collectively investigating what practising solidarity in fashion entails. This book recognises the urgency of practising more care for other humans, animals, organisms, and species, as well as the other (living) matter related to fashion, clothing, and textiles. How can we activate radical visions and imaginations of alternative, more solidary fashion systems? And how can we respect the a...

The “trolley problem” remains a useful exercise in drawing out the differences between utilitarian and deontological approaches to ethics in analytic philosophy. However, the thought experiment also determined imagining what AI-infused artefacts should be capable of, suggesting that ethical decision-making becomes a data-driven enterprise rather than a human, social, or individualised practice. Maya Indira Ganesh tracks the language, materiality, and culture of epistemic tools that establ...

Over the past 30 years, the rise of art as research has brought theory to the center of art education. Out of Theory: Relational Ecologies of Theory and Practice in the Arts explores how theory can be approached in the arts and its evolving connections with other disciplines. The first part examines the dynamic relationship between theory and practice; the second presents outcomes from Polyphonic Landscapes, an artistic research project that treats theory as practice. It asks: What is a lands...