'Wi Deh Yay' Talk Session - Caribbean Heritage, DIaspora & Identity

Wi Deh Yah is a series of talks organised in collaboration with the Design History Society and the Caribbean Fashion and Design Research Network (CFDRN) which was established in October 2022 by a group of researchers whose research interests intersect in a variety of ways across the Caribbean region. CFDRN was established with the aim of amplifying the voices and histories of the Caribbean, a region which remains under-represented in histories of design. The Caribbean is defined in its broadest sense to include the islands in the Caribbean Sea and/or those countries that share its coastline.

The final session in this series Heritage, Diaspora and Identity, brings together researchers and practitioners who investigate notions of heritage, diaspora and identity through an examination of fashion, textiles, beauty and style. Speakers touch on a range of subjects such as the symbiosis of history-telling, making/ and archiving to the Windrush generation, where do West Indian people fit into reconstructed and dominant narratives of their own culture and if their work can contribute to decolonized fashion and textiles narratives?

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