Episode 21 – Otto von Busch
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Welcome back to a new season of Chic Podcast! The 21st episode was recorded remotely in January 2021, with Otto von Busch, who is the Associate Professor of Integrated Design at Parsons in New York. In his research he explores how the powers of fashion can be bent to achieve a positive personal and social condition for everyone to grow to their full potential. For over fifteen years, he has examined fashion beyond consumerism, aesthetic decrees, and arbitrary authority, and worked towards establishing fashion practice as a shared capability, bio-social energy, and a play of embodied attentions. His latest publications include The Psychopolitics of Fashion: Conflict and Courage Under the Current State of Fashion, (Bloomsbury 2020), and The Dharma of Fashion: A Buddhist Approach to Our Life with Clothes (Schiffer 2020). He is also currently working on an online seminar on Fashion, Emotion and Self, together with his colleague psychologist Lisa Rubin. They publish short essays, and you can find them online at www.publicseminar.org – a site hosted by the New School.
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