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Dr Richard Hudson-Miles

Senior Lecturer

Richard Hudson-Miles is a Senior Lecturer in Critical and Contextual Studies. He also writes design criticism for publications such as ASBO magazine, The Conversation, and Vestoj.

He is currently the director of the SYNTHESIS: DIGITAL FASHION RESEARCH NETWORK.

Richard's teaching covers the history and theory of design. His research operates at the intersections of digital cyberculture, the history of art and design, radical social theory, and the sociology of education. He is also a specialist in the philosophy of Jacques Rancière and will shortly be publishing an introduction to his work for Routledge. In addition, he is interested in the relation of art and design to neoliberalism, particularly in terms of education, social justice, class politics, decolonisation, ecology, and sustainability.

Current Teaching

Dr. Hudson-Miles currently teaches fashion history, fashion theory, and fashion writing on the following degrees:

BA (Hons) Fashion Design
BA (Hons) Fashion Marketing
MA Fashion

Research Interests

Dr. Hudson-Miles will happily receive applications from prospective doctoral students interested in working within any of the research themes of the SYNTHESIS - Digital Fashion Research Network [Decentralsiation, Technoculture, Transdisciplinarity, and Practice-Based Research with VR/XR/AR technologies].

He will also consider inquiries from the media, researchers, or prospectve doctoral students relating to the following areas:

Fashion Theory: Any aspect of fashion theory from Simmel onwards. Also welcomed are research projects related to subcultural fashion, oppositional dress, style as bricolage, streetstyle, slow fashion, commodity fetishism, symbolic exchange, Rancière and fashion, Baudrillard and fashion, posthumanism, the Gaze, decolonisation, or the interrelations of youth music, subcultural style, and politics
The philosophy of Jacques Rancière: Any aspect of Rancière's thought, especially the relationship of key concepts like politics, police, dissensus, disagreement, wrong, aisthesis, explication, or the poor, to art, design, and visual communication
Radical Social Theory: Any projects connecting revolutionary thought to art and design, especially Marxism, Post-Marxism, Post-colonialism, Anarchism, Feminism, Queer Theory
The Educational Turn in Contemporary Art: Joseph Beuys, Art & Language, Arte Útil, Tania Bruguera, Manifesta 6, or any alternative art schools
Critical Pedagogy and the Sociology of Education: Any projects relating to Rancière's concept of explication, Althusser's work on the ISA, and Harney and Moten's conception of the undercommons. Proposals for projects on the history of UK art schools are especially welcomed

Membership of professional associations and societies: