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Fashion education is changing. It is preparing students for induction into the ethos and business practices of a wide variety of design, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, retailing and promotional activities. Offering understanding and empowerment for meeting the challenges of sustainability, decolonisation and new business models.
List of contents
Preface.
Privilege Keynote.
Introduction - Speculating, Experiencing and Collaborating.
Part I: Fashion Futures: Speculations 1. Cradle to Cradle - Creating to Survive: A Manifesto for Design Education.
2. Mediating wearer-clothing relationships - a case study in Fashion Design Education.
3. Cast-aways: Repair alter consumer habits.
4. The Fashion Kitchen - a case study on integrating biomaterials into fashion design education.
5. Something or Other: 'Othering Tech' and Ideational Learning Environments for Fashion.
Part II : Future Education: Experiences 6. Arguing for a Broader Engagement of Fashion Students with Politics - Starting with a Discussion of Labour.
7. Uniqueness in Fashon - Disrupting Modernity, Igniting Indigenous Romanticism.
8. An Autoethnographic Narrative of Chinese Students' Quietness: A Reflection on Experiences of Learning and Teaching in Fashion.
9. Fashion is a Field: Seeing Through the Eyes of an Ethnologist.
10. Cultural Studies in Higher Education: Assessments, Learning Outcomes and Scope.
11. A Decolonial Trend Forecasting Methodology.
12. Landworkers' Wardrobe; an enquiry into relational design and rethinking the role of designer.
Part III: Communication and Collaboration 13. Fashion, Culture and Design Dialogues.
14. Bridging Decoloniality and Sustainability in Fashion.
15. International collaborative project framework for COIL in fashion education
16. The Global Artisan Project: A Collaboration, Co-Creation Project, Connecting Fashion and Indian Artisans.
17. The (Only) Future of Fashion? The Role of Small Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Driving Transformational Change.
Index
About the author
Kirsten Scott is Head of Research at Istituto Marangoni London.
Barry Curtis is Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture [Middlesex University] where he was Head of School and Director of Research.
Claire Pajaczkowska studied art and design in London and New York. She has published widely on film, art, design, and popular culture.
Summary
Fashion education is changing. It is preparing students for induction into the ethos and business practices of a wide variety of design, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, retailing and promotional activities. Offering understanding and empowerment for meeting the challenges of sustainability, decolonisation and new business models.
