Otto Von Busch

Otto von Busch är designer, hantverkare, teoretiker, aktivist och forskare. Han slöjdar fram nya designroller.

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Otto von Busch is a Haute Couture Heretic and DIY-demagogue, but also researcher in fashion, design and craft. He has a background in arts, craft, design and theory. His PhD, called Fashion-able: Heretic Journeys in Engaged Fashion Design (2008), explores, with hands-on projects, how participatory practices can render fashion inclusive, yet still exclusive. To realize this he draws on the practice and tactics of hacking, fan fiction, liberation theology and development practice with which he forges an alliance. They all share an approach that can inspire to liberate the mythical energy in fashion – hacking the flows of the operating system, but keeping the power on.

In his research he also explores the emergence of a new "hacktivist" designer role in fashion, where the designer engages participants to reform fashion from a phenomenon of dictations and anxiety to a collective experience of empowerment, in other words, to make participants become fashion-able.

more projects at www.selfpassage.org