Dr. Stefanie Mallon
Core interests
For my research, I am particularly interested in critical fashion: The exploration of the potentials that clothing, fashion and textiles offer for individual and group positionings. With the Responsible Fashion Series, I organize international events in which activists from academia, design and other fashion practices come together to develop a broad basis for the development of a responsible and ethically justifiable fashion system. After visiting Central Asia in 2023 to discuss regional textile production with stakeholders and learn textile techniques in workshops, we are planning an event in the southwest of the USA in 2025. The question then is how digitality and technology can be used specifically to make the fashion system more sustainable.
Since April 2024, I have also been working on a project on transgenerational youth in museums. The focus here is on how young people can use their village museum to engage with their individual and collective experiences and what the village museum can learn from working with young people in return.
As for teaching, I am particularly inspired by the cultural-historical perspective and also by small expeditions outside the university. It is exciting and productive to work with the students on how the diverse materials - e.g. from the flea market or the attic - can be questioned regarding the experiences of people from times gone by.