Dear friends, in this series we introduce you to the materials and participants of our new digital issue. To cover "the fusion of modern outdoor and fashion" concept of the issue, we tried to approach the topic objectively and learned opinions from different industry clusters: brands, designers, media, retail, education, materials manufacturers, influencers, and innovators. We met this project in the summer of 2019 in Munich at Outdoor by ISPO, and, frankly, we couldn't remember any such projects in the world. The BARTENSTEIN Academy is an academy with graduate programs in the design, development, and innovation of functional clothing. Also in that summer one of the first workshops was given by Errolson Hugh from ACRNM. We talked with the co-founder of the project, Alexa Dehmel, about her vision of problems in modern design education and how the pandemic affected the further development of the Academy.

Check the article preview below and read the full interview in TECHUNTER 06 ONLINE issue at the link.









Q: Ivan Dzhatiev [TECHUNTER, creative director].
A: Alexa Dehmel [BARTENSTEIN ACADEMY, co-founder].
Photo: BARTENSTEIN ACADEMY archive.