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It’s a well talked and well written about element of the human condition, the search for belonging; in terms of both a physical place and also a space within ourselves in which we are content and loving. Yet within the current global context which sees people being forced from their homes and communities the search for this sense belonging feels even more pressingly political and poignant. Then there’s this idea about belonging in terms of ownership, us belonging to something

Our last destination for the H&M x LCF project on the last day of London Fashion Week is The Strand. We take a look at the work of LCF students George Boyle, Pheobe Yange and Miju Ko called  3패션人, a reference to the collaboration between all three of their cultures. Their collection applies weaving and construction techniques found in traditional Japanese packaging to recycled garments in order to produce new pieces with zero or minimal waste. By working with these techniques

Photo by Emmi Hyyppä What does it mean to ‘be human’? We find ourselves once again considering this question as part of the Being Human festival. Run by the School of Advanced Study at the University of London and the AHRC, Being Human is a 10 day series of events taking place across the UK that range from our own event exploring fashion and biodiversity to singing sea shanty’s in Liverpool and talking witichcraft in Northumbria. Building on our event at the festival last yea

Susan Leen, Life Between Streets 1, 2013 ‘The spaces through which we go daily are provided for by locations; their nature is grounded in things of the type of buildings. If we pay heed to these relations between locations and spaces, between spaces and space, we get a due to help us in thinking of the relation of man and space.’ (Martin Heidegger, ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’, 1951) Over the last fifty years there’s been a turn in geographical thinking towards a mode of comp

Fashion can champion our identies and communities within an existing culture, photo from pearlysociety.co.uk Fashion and politics have a long and multidimensional relationship, fashion’s political voice taking on a wide variety of guises inside and outside of the pillars of state. The communicative power of fashion’s artistic practices can bring challenge to a political status quo, a brilliant exemplifier of this was drawn together through ICA’s recent offsite exhibition A Jo