The first Global Fashioning Assembly (GFA22) on 21-23 October 2022 was hosted by 12 coalitions in 14 countries, across 6 continents, for a total of 40 hours, consisting of 28 hours of local programmes and 12 hours of sharing councils.

Each local programme was self-governed and self-represented, and welcomed local stakeholders, communities and audiences in a combination of local languages and English. They included talks, films, workshops, discussions and crafts, both online and offline, and moved from museum collections to artisan knowledges, and from decolonial creative practices to critical research.

Whilst some coalitions presented programmes around decolonising narratives and critiques of institutional ideas and spaces, others interrogated the importance of cultural sustainability and craft heritage practices. A number of collectives also confronted the impact of politics, colonialism and erasure, presenting critical, decentered research.