"Society Risk Protection" is a multidisciplinary project that originated from a paper titled "Protect Yourself and Others", which explored the human condition through the lens of physical protection, identity safeguarding, and privacy. This initial research evolved into two capsule collections featuring garments designed to reflect these themes. The project further culminated in an exhibition held at the Cellar Contemporary gallery in Trento, developed in collaboration with the Slam Jam archive in Ferrara. The findings and outcomes of this process were subsequently consolidated and critically examined in a thesis titled "Society Risk Protection".
Protect yourself and others
How struggles and protests against the System will change fashion by giving rise to new typicalities in the way protest groups dress.
How struggles and protests against the System will change fashion by giving rise to new typicalities in the way protest groups dress.
Abstract:
The protest demonstrations that in recent years have increasingly affected large parts of the masses in a homogeneous manner, fuelling outbreaks in Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, etc., lead us to reflect on the characteristics of a type of clothing that will increasingly have connotations of protection of the individual and his identity as well as to subvert and counteract the technological efforts mobilised by the systems of power of governments to quell and control such mass events.
The starting point will be a social evolutionary analysis that has led to an increase in the production of ‘risk’ as theorised by German sociologist Ulrich Beck.
Vexed Generation, a forerunner in the creation of clothing designed to cope with an urban context compromised by air pollution, extreme surveillance and restrictions on personal freedom can be considered the first fashion response to these changes.
The phenomenon in question is still expanding, and there are several designers researching personal protection mechanisms through accessories and clothing complements that do or do not make use of modern technologies to meet these needs. We will therefore analyse what are the possible brands aiming at the production of clothing for the protection of the person, especially with regard to the safeguarding of personal freedom hindered by technological tools or the avoidance of the theft of sensitive data and information. A future ‘under control’ by States/Governments that will tend more and more towards totalitarianism, bringing the individual to a ‘single dimension’ in which the need to ‘hide’, to camouflage oneself, through the use of ad hoc artefacts that combine creativity and technology in order to avoid ‘tentacular’ control will be accentuated.
The starting point will be a social evolutionary analysis that has led to an increase in the production of ‘risk’ as theorised by German sociologist Ulrich Beck.
Vexed Generation, a forerunner in the creation of clothing designed to cope with an urban context compromised by air pollution, extreme surveillance and restrictions on personal freedom can be considered the first fashion response to these changes.
The phenomenon in question is still expanding, and there are several designers researching personal protection mechanisms through accessories and clothing complements that do or do not make use of modern technologies to meet these needs. We will therefore analyse what are the possible brands aiming at the production of clothing for the protection of the person, especially with regard to the safeguarding of personal freedom hindered by technological tools or the avoidance of the theft of sensitive data and information. A future ‘under control’ by States/Governments that will tend more and more towards totalitarianism, bringing the individual to a ‘single dimension’ in which the need to ‘hide’, to camouflage oneself, through the use of ad hoc artefacts that combine creativity and technology in order to avoid ‘tentacular’ control will be accentuated.