CAST OUT LOUD: Mobility and reciprocity in ethical fashion design

Join CAST Out Loud for a presentation by Dr Rimi Khan: Mobility and reciprocity in ethical fashion design: rethinking creative work in more than local spaces

Rimi Khan presents her research examining how the making of ‘ethical fashion’ responds to the spatial imaginaries and networks of racialised and gendered labour that define the global fashion industry. It focuses on a Bangladeshi brand, Aranya, to consider the forms of transnational sociality and community-building it produces through its design collaborations. The mobility of Aranya’s creatives working in intercultural contexts challenges reductive visions of the global and local. It highlights different scales of creativity and solidarity that offer a way to reorient creative economy literature towards inclusivity and sustainability. These findings also help to move away from Western, individualised definitions of creativity, to an understanding of creative work that is reciprocal and relational. 

Dr Rimi Khan is a Lecturer in the School of Communication and Design at RMIT Vietnam. Her research is broadly concerned with creativity, citizenship and cultural economy. Her most recent work examines creative labour and ethical fashion economies in Asia. Her book, Art in Community: The Provisional Citizen (2015, Palgrave), examines the institutional, aesthetic, and economic agendas that make communities creative, cohesive and productive. 

 

This presentation is hosted by RMIT’s Contemporary Art and Social Transformation (CAST) research group, based in the School of Art.

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