What does it mean to be ANTI-FRAGILE for GEN Z?

This video work made up part of an installation at the School of Media and Communication, LCF for the Anti-fragile Take over. It was produced by a collective of first year fashion communication students in response to their philosophical, political and aesthetic inquiry to the term ‘The Personal is Political’.

This issue discusses a series of teaching and learning events during 2019–2020 that explores radical and creative pedagogies and its impact on student and staff wellbeing. Working practically with Nassim Taleb’s key philosophy, the Antifragile, which is the theory that things gain with disorder, we co-investigated these ideas politically, philosophically and psychologically through art and design practices at the School of Media and Communications, LCF and also through a teaching intervention at a secondary school in Stratford.

The issue includes extensive discussion of “The Personal is Political” and pedagogic principles around feminism, mental health as a socio-political issue, the paradox of feminism and education, and commitment to creative practice as a path to growth.