Zowie Broach, Head of Fashion at The Royal College of Art, shares her vital, disruptive and planet-centred manifesto with Version. RCA Fashion students, working with artist Joe Cruz, create ossified snapshots of current research with a flat-bed scanner.

AVAILABLISM

In the first year of your MA you will be requested NOT to buy any material but to utilise, experiment and understand fully, ONLY the materials that are donated to the RCA. Utilise, Create, Design.

DIGITALISM

Utilise software like Clo3D, mixed with and alongside Rhino, Maya, Gravity Sketch, Tilt Brush, Z Brush, Spark AR, Unity, as design tools, (an initial selection) to break apart the line of design, saving materials and time in the making, toiling, prototyping, process and stages.* Look to break the aesthetic of the machine – find something unknown. Invent, Displace, Disrupt.

DIGITAL PRESENCE

50% of future talks with be screened using conferencing systems. Reach wider, Travel less, Learn more.

– ZB 2020

*[to work purely digital is another growing practice, but to note we must fast consider AI as an energy as well]