In this two week workshop - hosted by Desearch and Revelopment October 2003 at K3, Malmö University - thirteen brave students produced clothes and accessories designed to increase the wearer's dependence on technical structures and the benevolence of other people.

The backdrop of the workshop is the society of control. This theme has been explored extensively by engineers and designers, often resulting in the creation of security aware tools and rigid protections. Critically using naivety and trust this workshop probed new ways of approaching surveillance and control. The exercises presented in Dressed for Dependence were to provoke an awareness of the two faced nature of design, systems, and technology as both liberator and vehicle of enslavement.