Fashion and Disability Justice
Spring 2022
Taught By: Ben Barry
Section: A
CRN: 11921
Credits: 3
In this course, students develop a deeper understanding and practice of social justice in the context of disability and fashion design. Students are introduced to Critical Disability Studies and Mad Studies as frameworks to reimagine design processes and practices. They learn to center community relations and collaboration, and they reconsider material and form from the perspectives of disability. The course focuses on a single project in which students create a fashion output. For Spring 2022, students collaborate with the Cripping Masculinity project to (re)design a garment or fashion product with project participants. Cripping Masculinity explores how disabled, D/deaf and neuro-divergent men and masculine non-binary people navigate the world and make new worlds through fashion.
College: Parsons School of Design (PS)
Department: Fashion (PSOF)
Campus: New York City (GV)
Course Format: Seminar (R)
Max Enrollment: 16
Add/Drop Deadline: February 6, 2022 (Sunday)
Online Withdrawal Deadline: April 17, 2022 (Sunday)
Seats Available: Yes
Status: Closed*
* Status information is updated every five minutes. The status of this course may have changed since the last update. Open seats may have restrictions that will prevent some students from registering. Updated: 7:32am 5/20/2022 EDT