(m)Oda Kay/Ni Marites | Jose Francis V. Aquino Jr.

In the Emerging Futurists Residency discussion, Jose Francis V. Aquino Jr. tackled The Terno Project by his interchangeable prompt, (m)Oda Kay/Ni Martes. Aquino is a licensed architect thriving in the industry for over 16 years and is the owner/designer of the clothing brand VILQUIN. Aquino chose Philippine Terno as the vessel for his thesis as a representation of Filipino identity in fashion as it is now being co-opted back by people in power; just like how “beauty” covered up the atrocities during the Marcos regime. The main prompt of his discussion lies around the facets of the information age: disinformation, historical revisionism, propaganda among others.