Fashion degree program cooperates with PROMPT Magazine

What does fashion look like when it detaches itself from the material? And what role does artificial intelligence play in the creative process? The 6th semester of the fashion degree course addressed these questions as part of the "De:Materializing / Fashion from Data" course led by designer and lecturer Laura Büchner.

The focus was on a cooperation with the international PROMPT Magazine, which was expressed in two formats: Firstly, in an LED installation during the exhibition of works, and secondly in a publication of all student work in the current issue of the magazine.

AI as a tool and reflection surface

The course was inspired by the Japanese sustainability principle of Mottainai, which stands for the respectful use of resources. The ten students were invited to rethink fashion: not as a product, but as an immaterial, cultural and aesthetic expression.

Artificial intelligence served on the one hand as a design tool, and on the other was critically questioned: What does authorship mean in an increasingly automated design world? What aesthetic languages does AI open up? And where are its ethical limits? The result was ten experimental fashion films that move between concept, technology and speculative future design.

University meets magazine

One part of the collaboration was the presentation of the projects during the retrospective in a large-format LED wall installation as part of the Fashion degree course exhibition. The student films were shown together with ten works by international artists from an accompanying competition organized by PROMPT Magazine. Professor Simone Sommer accompanied the exhibition with guided tours and encouraged an exchange about AI, creative responsibility and the future of digital fashion.

All ten student works can also be seen in the current issue of PROMPT Magazine. This gives the projects international visibility in the context of contemporary design and research. In addition to the works of the competition winners, this also creates a visual and content-related dialog on education, art and technology.

Click here for issue #15 of the PROMPT Magazine