15.00 - 15.30 [Auditorium]
Greetings and presentation of the conference by Dobrila Denegri

15.30 - 16.30 [Auditorium]
Session 1: Critical Fashion: How to Teach it?

• Linda Loppa, Creative Director / Curator / Opinion Leader
• Clemens Thornquist, Head of the Fashion Design at The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås
• Moderator: Dobrila Denegri

17.00 - 18.00 [Auditorium]
Session 2: Beyond Clothes: Fashion Activism and its Platforms

• Iris Ruisch, Director, State of Fashion
• José Teunissen, Director, AMFI - Amsterdam Fashion Institute of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
• Moderator: Dobrila Denegri

18.00 - 19.00 [Foyer]
Session 3: Presentation of exhibitive interventions

• Unsettled Matter, Manora Auersperg in collaboration with Natascha Unkart, Vienna
• Excuse My Dust Series, Christina Dörfler, Vienna

19.00 - 20.00 [Cinema Hall]

• Premiere of the video Duel by Anna-Sophie Berger, Vienna

12.00 - 13.00 [Rooftop of the Auditorium]
Session 4 (by invitation only) - Brainstorming & conversations on the future of fashion education

• Romana Andò, Associate Professor of Sociology of Communication and Fashion, Department of Fashion Studies, Sapienza University, Rome
• Ivana Conte, Creative & Academic Director, ILA - International Luxury Academy, Rome/London
• Christina Dörfler, Lecturer, Kunst-Mode-Design, Herbststrasse, Higher Federal College of Fashion, Vienna
• Linda Loppa, Creative Director / Curator / Opinion Leader and Advisor, Polimoda, Florence
• Diego Manfreda, Course Leader of the Three-year Course in Fashion Design of the Rome Campus of NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti
• Szymon Owsiański, Lecturer, Department of Design, Faculty of Design Arts, University of Technology, Bydgoszcz
• Karisia Paponi, Professor, Fashion Department, Academy of Fine Arts, Catanzaro
• Clemens Thornquist, Head of Fashion Design Department, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås
• José Teunissen, Director, AMFI - Amsterdam Fashion Institute of the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences

15.00 - 15.30 [Auditorium]
Greeting by Luca Lo Pinto, director of MACRO and presentation of fashion-related exhibitions and projects realised in the museum

15.30 - 17.00 [Auditorium]
Session 5: Curating Inbetweeners 1/2

• Lecture + Q&A: Matthew Linde, Fashion exhibition-maker, Researcher and Writer
• Anna Sophie Berger, in conversation with Matthew Linde and Luca Lo Pinto

17.30 - 19.00 [Auditorium]
Session 5: Curating Inbetweeners 2/2

• Lecture + Q&A: Jeppe Ugelvig, Curator, Historian and Cultural critic
• Tenant of Culture, in conversation with Dobrila Denegri and Jeppe Ugelvig

19.00 - 19.30 [Auditorium]
Presentation of the new issue of VISCOSE Magazine

The fifth issue of Viscose explores fashion’s multifaceted retail spaces and cultures. With the evolution of shopping in the 20th and 21st centuries as its focus, the issue looks at the shop as a central nexus where communities and identities are continuously produced and re-imagined through commerce. With a special attention to the role of fashion retail within urban spatial politics, the issue seeks out histories of projects—often developed with or by artists—that have embraced the shop as a medium of both possibility and contestation. Co-edited with Camila Palomino.

15.00 - 16.00 [Auditorium]
Online session 6: Supporting Experimental Fashion: Why and How?

• Yuima Nakazato, Fashion designer and founder of the Fashion Frontier Program, Tokyo

In conversation with Dobrila Denegri, Linda Loppa, and Yuima Nakazato Laboratory

16.15 - 17.00 [Auditorium]
Session 7: Fashion Research Platforms

• Elise By Olsen, Director, International Library of Fashion Research, Oslo

17.30 - 18.30 [Auditorium]
Session 8: Teaching Experimental Fashion

Presentation of the publication Radical Fashion Exercises: A Workbook of Modes and Methods and a discussion

• Laura Gardner, Editor, Lecturer The School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne
• Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran, Lecturer, The School of Fashion and Textiles at RMIT University in Melbourne
• Clemens Thornquist, Head of Fashion Design Department, The Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås
• Jeppe Ugelvig, Curator, Historian and Cultural critic
• Alessandra Vaccari, associate professor, IUAV - Venice University

19.00 - 20.00 [Auditorium]
Session 9: How to Make History: Vanity and Pleasure in Fashion  Research

• Performative lecture: Dr. Matteo Augello, Fashion Theoretician and lecturer, NABA, Nuova Accademia di Belle Arti