Chinouk Filique de Miranda

Chinouk Filique de Miranda

fashion design research in Amsterdam, Netherlands, she/her

↳ is a semi-professional screenshotter, design researcher, critical fashion practitioner and currently a Professional Doctorate candidate at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

this is a temporary space ✻ you'll find some highlights (🫧) of my practice here, but for a full (? and even more overwhelming) CV please view this spreadsheet 🧷

Projects

2024

The Softwear Directory acts as a resource library positioned at the intersection of fashion, digital culture and artistic research. It aims to highlight and provide insight into a wide variety of digital (design) practices through the sharing of sources, tools and (meeting) spaces.

This project is brought to fruition with through collaboration with Artemis Gryllaki and Kimberley ter Heerdt.

2024
Critical Practices in the Digital Margins

Fashion is inextricably linked to digital culture, and digital media have opened up new possibilities for fashion consumption. As this expansive virtual space invites us to continually (re)shape our identities online, my PD research unravels and reconfigures the methods of resistance practices that live on the margins of online cultures - in the hope of discovering what different forms of digital agency in fashion might look like.

This project is carried out within the context of the Fashion Professorship led by dr. Danielle Bruggeman at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

2023

a podcast periodical that unpacks different perspectives on fashion by inviting people and practices we admire and want to know more about, but also ones we might not fully understand and have a lot of questions about. A pilot season of three episodes is now live on all Podcast platforms, and via the Warehouse website.

2022

The journal's first ever issue produced by a guest editor, combines a wide variety of perspectives on how fashion and digital cultures engage and intertwine, and how this affects (independent) fashion practices. It features contributions by, Cinzia Magnani, Maud Acheampong, Chet Julius, Maria Spadoni Battistoni, Jasmine Bacchus and many more.

Side Projects

2024
workshop ⥂ Colonial infrastructures: on Fashion at Varia

Invited by amy pickles & Sofia Boschat Thorez. The Colonial Infrastructures worksessions intend to be moments of collective learning to make tangible invisible colonial mechanisms of hierarchy and oppression that are prevalent in everyday communication technologies, yet often difficult to comprehend. The session facilitates collective research into, and consideration of, current citation practices in relation to fashion.

2023
workshop ⥂ Are we creating, borrowing or invading? An active exploration of multi-authored aesthetics in (digital) fashion. at Universität der Künste Berlin

This research-through-making- session, held during the De-fashioning Education Conference, hosted during the Multi-logue Conference, considers ways in which multi-authored aesthetics can be recognized and underscored. Through digital tools and templates, participants will reassess their online visual language to (re)acknowledge the lineage of inspiration in fashion, collaboration with Julia Kaleta.

2020
workshop ⥂ Investigating our Digital Footprint

This workshop was carried out multiple acrross various networks and timezones : ArtEZ University, Mozzfest, State of Fashion intervention #3. In this workshop participants looked into their position as a user-consumer within your personal digital landscape. By investigating ‘scrolling behaviour’ while using new media platforms and its algorithms, in order to analyse your personal digital footprint, they try to find and highlight interrelated (subliminal) commercial structures.

Exhibitions

2023
New Fashion Narratives at FashionClash
Maastricht

Co-curator alongside Enzo Aït Kaci, Lotte de Jager, Jonathan Ho & Boris Kollar. This exhibition grew out of a residency period, and unpacked how (re) sources from the past, act in the present and create new contexts for the future. The show exhibition ongoing and work-in-progress pieces from 17 different practitioners.

Speaking

2024
Thoughts on Design Education: Radical Pedagogy at Concordia University
Montreal, Canada *remote*

A panel talk alongside Kathy Moscou, Jason Edward Lewis and and Milan Tanedjikov, moderated by Raphaël Viens discussing the reality of teaching to the future generation of designers.

2023
Digital Narratives; Language, Memory, and Body.
Paris, France

in conversation with Femke de Vries, as part of Digital Fashion Symposium, a collaboration between Parsons, the New School and London College of Fashion

2023
Digital Fashion: Next Wave of Green Capitalism?
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

part of the Messyverse, a festival, art exhibition and context program, focused on self-expression, representation and identity within new digital worlds held at Felix Meritis. Talk hosted by Giancarlo Pazzanese and in conversation with Tumelo Setlaba.

2023
Fragments of DIY Stories
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

For the launch of Booklook #2, I moderated a conversation between Mika Perlmutter, Lejla Vala Verheus, Alessandra Varisco & Anouk Beckers.

2022
Fashion, Algorithms & Digital Literacy
Fashion Knowledge Podcast

hosted by Beata Wilczek

2022
The Impact of Tech on Transparency & Aesthetics in Fashion
Montreal, Canada

part of Transparance_Transparency Symposium at Ecole Superieur de Mode, UQAM

2022
Curating the Screenshot, Towards a Shared Sensibility
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

part of Suppa Soup Sessions, hosted by the Advertising & Beyond department.

2021
Fashion Against Capitalism
State of Fashion

Round table talk curated by Warehouse as part of State Of Fashion, on the agency of fashion practitioners and the creating of disruptive cycles and alternatives approach to fashion, alongside Dr. Monica Titton, Aïcha Abbadi, Shanzhai Lyric and T’ai Smith.

2021
Under pressure : Fashion and mental health
Fashion Revolution

exploring colonial roots of mental health risks related to fashion, including a disconnection from the materials our clothes are made of, an ever-ongoing pressure to stay on top of trends, limited notions of Western beauty, alongside Pak Chiu, Patricia Brien, Joline Jolink and moderated by Yophi Ignacia.

2021
Engaging with digital (dynamic) marketing, In Times of Commercialised Diversity
New York, United States *remote*

a lecture and panel as part of the Virtual Symposium hosted by the National Museum of African American History and Culture and Smithsonian Design Museum

2021
Fashioning the (False) Political Self Through Sharing — the Fashion Systems’ Adaptation of the Virtual Synopticon ’
Milan, Italy *remote*

Paper presentation as part of the Fashion Tales Conference, hosted by Modacult & Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore.

2021
Deconstruction, Recognition and Alternative Engagement — A Proposal To Democratise the ‘Dictator Aesthetics’ of Fashions’ Digital Narrative ’
Antwerp, Belgium

Paper presentation during the Responsible Fashion Series, an International Fashion Colloquium hosted by University of Antwerp.

Writing

2023

Edited by Laura Gardner and Daphne Mohajer va Pesaran.

2022

A piece of patchwork writing that dives into the uniting of (fashion) protesters through decentralised narratives enabled by the internet, part of Press&Fold #2 : the Resistance Issue.

2021

A critical exploration of the cultivation of critique in the online comment section, part of Warehouse Review 002 | A review of reviews.

2021

Longread on computational capital in fashion and (false) identity creation through algorithmic apophenia.

2020

An essay exploring the female perspective on the garments’ strategic competence, published by Het Nieuwe Instituut as part of ‘the Hoodie’ exhibition, curated by Lou Stoppard.

2019

This thesis explores the digitisation of fashion and our digital agency as consumers.

Features

2023
Hoe meer data we weggeven, hoe minder we te kiezen hebben. on Boekman Stichting

by Rianne van der Molen, part of Boekman magazine #135 issue.

Work Experience

2023 — Now
🫧 PD researcher at ArtEZ University of the Arts
Arnhem, Netherlands

In this four year trajectory, I investigate the intertwining of fashion and our virtual landscape, and the implications for our digital capacity to act. It focuses on identity in the digital age and the extent to which people possess the possibilities to construct different forms of subjectivity. The aim is to contribute to larger developments in an increasingly global and digital society, such as new forms of consumerism, capital and cultural value.

2022 — 2024
Lecturer, Advertising Department at Willem de Kooning Academy
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

With a focus on concepting and communication, 4th year students conduct a design research trajectory grounded in theory & practise to conclude their graduation projects.

2023 — 2023
Design Research at Concrete Blossom
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

the Disruption office ; A futurist Urban Culture consulting and design firm, that draws from street culture as a continuously transformingparameter of society. The language, taste and worldview of urbanites is increasingly shaped by the culture from our immigrant neighborhoods. We sample the heritage of postcolonial Superdiverse cities and translate this into projects and products that make cities future ready.

2022 — 2023
Design Research (lead) at Niteshop
Rotterdam, the Netherlands

As part of the YoutDem trajectory, a multi-year project that aims to make the dynamic but often precarious ecologies where youth culture is loved more sustainable. It is a platform for and by young people, and the development of young cultural makers is its central focus.

2022 — 2022
Design Research (lead) at Municipality of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

This research was commissioned by the Tech & Innovation branch of the Municipality of Amsterdam, in which a new validation process was conceived the interpretation of online slang used amongst online subcultures.

2021 — 2022
Design Research (lead) at Public Library of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

A 10 month reorganisation project in which a new community structure and toolkits were created, and tested throughout various OBA locations in the city of Amsterdam.

2020 — 2022
Social Designer & Researcher at Idiotes
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Design Research collective, creative partnership between the OBA and the Municipality of Amsterdam.

Awards

2022
Critical Reflection & Debate Grant from Stimuleringsfonds Creative Industries

for the Softwear Directory

Education

2017 — 2019
Master of the Arts at ArtEZ University of Applied Sciences
Arnhem, The Netherlands

Graduated Cum Laude from Critical Fashion Practices Programme.

2009 — 2013
Bachelor of Design at Willem de Kooning Academy
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Certifications

2023
Introduction to Web Development from SheCodes
2019
Art & Politics from BAK Institute

Contact

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