Recommended and recent
Watch a short introduction to the Fashion Fictions project (3 mins)
Watch our enactment of the contemplative World 27, in which a group gathered in the woods to tell their clothes’ stories (9 mins)
Read Imagining a Future, an article by Sophie Benson for The Block from May 2023 that includes a short interview with Amy about Fashion Fictions
Watch Fashion Fictions: Unreasonable Dreaming, a conversation hosted by Amy with guests Annebella Pollen and Kate Fletcher, organised as part of the Fashion Fictions World Tour season in Nottingham, 19 April 2023 (1 hour 23 mins)
Read Historical Perspectives on Sustainable Fashion: Inspiration for Change (Bloomsbury, 2023), a book co-authored by Amy; various Fashion Fictions worlds are discussed in Chapter 6: Fashion Systems
Read an interview with Amy about the Fashion Fictions World Tour exhibition in Nottingham magazine Left Lion
Watch Fashion Fictions: Living Together in Imagined Worlds, an online event exploring the project and materials for organisers with guests Jeannine Diego, Erica de Greef and Sanem Odabaşı, 23 November 2022 (1 hour 27 mins)
Read Fashion Fictions: unmaking the mainstream fashion system, a paper presented by Amy at Global Fashion Conference, Akademie Mode & Design, 17-18 November 2022
Watch our film about the enactment of World 54, in which textile production has ceased and people find ways to make the most of what they find around them (4 mins)
Read Dreaming up a new way to dress, an article on Atlas of the Future outlining the Fashion Fictions project (see also articles It’s time to get resourceful, The mushrooms see it all and What stories would our clothes tell?)
Further reading and viewing
- Read a Twitter thread which traces one fiction (World 91) all the way from Stage 1 to Stage 3 (October 2022)
- Watch Fashion Fictions: learning to challenge the status quo, a presentation at The Future of International Fashion Design Education, Istituto Marangoni London, 29 September 2022 (starts around 1:00, 15 mins plus discussion)
- Watch a panel discussion involving Amy and three Fashion Fictions participants at Ruth Singer’s Making Meaning Live event on 15 July 2022 (free; click ‘buy now’ to access; see Fashion Fictions in the Day 2 list, 30 mins)
- Read Writing alternative fashion worlds: frustrations, fictions and imaginaries, a paper presented at Responsible Fashion Series, University of Antwerp, 14-22 October 2021
- Watch Fashion fictions: what do we wish for?, an invited presentation at Garment Stories and Sustainability: Past, Present and Future, University of York Annual Fashion Symposium, 4 June 2021 (1:33 onwards, 22 minutes plus discussion)
- Read Calling for a plurality of perspectives on design futuring: an un-manifesto, a paper coauthored by Amy with Noura Howell, Britta F. Schulte, Rocío Fatás Arana, Sumita Sharma and Grace Eden given at the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 8-13 May 2021
- Watch Amy’s inaugural lecture, Knit, Reknit and Reimagine, 27 January 2021, which discusses Fashion Fictions from 24:47 onwards (12 mins)
- Read Designing fashion fictions: speculative scenarios for sustainable fashion worlds, a paper given at The Design After, Cumulus Conference, Bogota, 30 October-1 November 2019