The Fold Online Course
The Fold is a seven-week online, synchronous course structured around The Fold as materiality, conceptual metaphor and creative project, supported by an exchange of readings, dialogues and creative exchanges. The course draws on key debates and hosts a collective exploration of (k)new knowledges, afro-sustainable practices, and ways of coming to know African fashion histories and futures. It responds to a demand by designers, artists, academics and decolonial thinkers seeking spaces and ways to develop new discourses for and with African fashion.
- Course Schedule
- Session 1 – October 14th: Introductions & Positionalities.
- Session 2 – October 21st: Imiphindo kwaXhosa: Linguistic Folds.
- Session 3 – October 28th: How Do You Wear Your Memory: Memory as Material.
- Session 4 – Novermber 5th: Glossaries as Destabilising meaning-making methodologies.
- Session 5 – November 11th: A Journey Towards an Afrocentric Pattern-Making System.
- Session 6 – November 18th: BARK PRACTICE: ecological indigenous practices in contemporary art-making.
- Session 7 – November 25th: Final Presentation and Feedback Session.
Course Fees
- – Continental (PanAfrican) fees R3500.00 pp
- – Diasporic (Global South) fees R4500.00 pp
- – International fees R8000.00 pp
- Institutional offers and opportunities, please email erica@afri.digital.
- Payment options are via bank transfer, paid in full or two tranches.
- Part-scholarships are available. Please email ziyander@afri.digital with a 1-page motivational letter why you really want to participate in our course, together with a short introductory video about yourself.