Master Critical Fashion Practices
ArtEZ University of the Arts
Key Information
Campus location
Arnhem, Netherlands
Languages
English
Study format
On-Campus
Duration
2 years
Pace
Full time
Tuition fees
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Introduction
Master Critical Fashion Practices
The ArtEZ Master Critical Fashion Practices is a two-year critical fashion course that is concerned with fashion’s intangible practices. Within the master, we support students in setting up and developing their own critical fashion practice, involving social enquiry, activism and attesting to exploitation or injustices apparent in industrial practice. Within this critical fashion practice programme, we believe in the possibility of multiple fashion systems, and together we explore alternative, non-industrial modes and frameworks for making, doing, seeing and experiencing fashion.
Admissions
Scholarships and Funding
Several scholarship options are available. Please check the university website for more information.
Curriculum
First year
The first year (consisting of the first two semesters) is project-based. You work collaboratively on several group projects under the supervision of a tutor and several guest tutors from within the course and professionals from the field. Within the context of these projects, you are facilitated in formulating, exploring, and refining your own research objectives.
Second year
During the second year of the course (the third and fourth semester) you work individually on your graduation project, again under the supervision of a tutor, several guest tutors from within the course, and professionals from the field.
Program Tuition Fee
Career Opportunities
During the Master Critical Fashion Practices, you build up a critical fashion practice and portfolio you can use in your professional life. It contains unique contexts and agendas, which will help in the professional world or when applying for the funding of projects. Once graduated, you are prepared for the complex reality of your role as a critical practitioner within the ever-changing field of fashion.
Our alumni set up their own practices, which span from performance artist, gallerist and fashion activist to design researcher and fashion publisher. The ArtEZ Master Critical Fashion Practices keeps close contact with alumni of the programme.
After graduation, they often visit the programme as guest lecturers or workshop hosts. As a graduate, you remain part of our learning community. You have access to our facilities such as the Critical Fashion Practices library, and you are able to receive professional advice from the programme tutors when it comes to funding and residency applications