Fashion Fictions stage 2 and stage 3 data

Twigger Holroyd, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-3516 and Aspinall, M, 2025. Fashion Fictions stage 2 and stage 3 data. [Dataset]

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Abstract

Fashion Fictions, founded by Amy Twigger Holroyd in 2020, brings people together to generate, experience and reflect on engaging fictional visions of sustainable fashion systems as an unconventional route to real-world change.

The project is structured in three stages.

At Stage 1, we create 100-word outlines of fictional fashion cultures and systems, known as ‘worlds’
at Stage 2 we build on these outlines, generating visual and material prototypes known as ‘explorations’
at Stage 3 we find ways to enact and experience the prototyped worlds, in activities known as ‘enactments’.

Although the speculative nature of the project implicitly points to future possibilities, the framework for speculation is based on ‘speculating sideways’ into an endless array of contemporary realities in parallel worlds, described as ‘parallel presents’. The project invites participants to generate positive and enticing worlds, in terms of individual satisfaction, social justice and sustainability, and to explore worlds that are physically possible, but push beyond what feels plausible today – understanding plausibility as a socially constructed sense of what is possible.

This dataset was generated via four Stage 2 prototyping workshops and four Stage 3 enactments that were organised by Amy Twigger Holroyd in 2021 and 2022, as part of a Research, Development and Engagement Fellowship funded by the UK’s Arts & Humanities Research Council. The dataset was compiled by Amy Twigger Holroyd, with support during the development stage from Matilda Aspinall.

The dataset captures participants’ experiences as they explore specific fictional worlds that had been generated by Stage 1 contributors.

Item Type:	Research datasets and databases
Creators:	Twigger Holroyd, A. and Aspinall, M.
Publisher:	Zenodo
Date:	2 December 2025
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.5281/zenodo.13369853 DOI 2547491 Other
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Laura Borcherds
Date Added:	17 Dec 2025 15:19
Last Modified:	17 Dec 2025 15:33
Related URLs:	Publication using this dataset
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/54879

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