Finally some days ago the Journal of Cultural Research (Routledge) published our article about labour conditions in the Milan Fashion Industry. Here's the abstract: "This article analyses labour conditions among creative workers in the Milan fashion industry. Employing both qualitative and quantitative methods, the article shows how workers in the Milan fashion industry are generally underpaid and overworked. Despite such dire conditions, fashion work is generally considered gratifying and workers express high levels of satisfaction. The second part of the article attempts to unravel this paradox, departing from McRobbie's conception of passionate work. It suggests that the promotion of creativity as a desired form of life in the contemporary metropolis has shaped new forms of identity related to symbolic remuneration for work."

Here we are after days of intense work at University of Ljubljana processing the output of the collaborative work that our guests created during those intense 5 days. We are really happy about interactions happening between them and in the next month we will see the results of this Coding/Decoding experimental process.

You can read a report of the workshop  now on Openwear blog.