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Students from IED Barcelona (Master in Design for Sustainable Fashion Technologies) and from FabLab Barcelona (Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia) presented their prototypes at the final gala of the ATTRACT EU The Future Technologies for Sustainable Fashion Program (#FTSF), supported by IdeaSquare - the innovation space at CERN.   The challenge: exploring how digital manufacturing technologies and new materials can help reduce the environmental impact of the fashion industry.   Some of the outcomes included: 👉 A groundbreaking solution for urban sustainability.  👉 Advanced technology to enhance health and well-being.  👉 Innovations in renewable energy.   Each proposal is distinguished by its creativity, innovation, and positive impact.   🔗 To learn more about each project and the students behind them: https://bit.ly/3WcY1e0

Let's play... "we're going to create a circular, local and bio-based textile ecosystem, and on this journey we will need...." Did you ever play this game, sitting in a circle at school? Together you and your friends built a shopping list or a holiday packing list, building gradually with each new suggestion, having to actively listen and make connections so that you might remember the whole... I'm taking this 'play' to a new context in our HEREWEAR workshop on Wednesday... Most of the dissemination work for the HUB, has involved engagement: conversations, walk- throughs, workshops to show people how they can connect to the diverse content and to one another. A resource won't be impactful unless teachers, leaders and advocates can first see how they might use it and how it can bring meaning and value to their community. This workshop is only 1 hour, but through it, participants from across the textile ecosystem will be able to become acquainted with, and co-explore the resource, learn about one another and how they might begin a bio-based, local and circular journey together. If you can't come to ECOSYSTEX, but would like this training for your community please get in touch! University of the Arts London

🌿 Fashion.ED Eco-Design Challenge: Shape the Future of Sustainable Fashion! 👗✨ Do you have an innovative idea for sustainable fashion? The Fashion.ED Eco-Design Challenge is your chance to shine! This competition recognizes the most creative and impactful eco-design business ideas from undergraduate, master's, and doctoral students in fashion and textiles. Let’s redefine the future of fashion—sustainably! 🌍 📚 About the Competition The Fashion.ED Eco-Design Challenge, part of the Erasmus+ project "Supporting Entrepreneurship in Eco-Design", aims to encourage creativity and entrepreneurship in sustainable fashion. Students from partner universities (UPV, KTU, UNIWA, UORADEA) are invited to submit their most innovative eco-design business ideas for evaluation. ✅ Who Can Participate? Undergraduate, Master's, or PhD students aged 18+ enrolled in design, fashion, or textiles. Passionate about sustainability and fluent in English (B2 level or higher). Students who complete the Fashion.ED MOOC on eco-design (certificate required). 💡 What to Submit? A short business idea description (100-150 words) covering: 🔹 Core Concept: What is your eco-design business, and why is it needed? 🔹 Ecological Impact: Highlight its environmental benefits. 🔹 Necessity: Why is your idea important for the fashion industry? 🔹 Innovation: What makes your idea unique and valuable? 🔹 Feasibility: Is your idea realistic and sustainable long-term? 📅 How to Apply? Submit your application through this Google Form by 01 December 2024. Ensure you attach all requested documents to qualify for the selection process. Selected participants will join the challenge hosted in the Netherlands, where winners will receive personalized support to turn their ideas into action. 🌟 You can find the rules of the competition and more information about the challenge in the project website at https://lnkd.in/dp9yx_sq #FashionEDChallenge #EcoDesign #SustainableFashion #Entrepreneurship #ErasmusPlus

Very honoured to have provided the keynote to a symposium and the resulting publication, the Future of Fashion Education: Speculation, Experience and Collaboration, edited by Kirsten Scott PhD, FRSA, FHEA, Scott Barry and Clare Padaczkowska and published by Routledge. I write about the climate and ecological emergencies and the desperately urgent need to embed a culture of care for Nature - ALL of Nature, her people and her animals - into fashion practice; in order to reframe away from a culture of consumption. I ask: “What is the point of a new collection is communities are suffering in drought, if villages are being washed away in floods, if the world’s remaining wildlife is dropping into extinction? What is fashion in a climate emergency?”
 The Future of International Fashion and Design Education Symposium, hosted by the Istituto Marangoni London in 2022, provided a vital forum for a range of different voices to be heard on how, what and why we teach fashion and design today for a better tomorrow. With thanks to Tansy Hoskins, Safia Minney, MBE FRSA Minney and Dr Nafeez Ahmed FRSA FSI for their continual inspiration. Please join us on October 30th at 10am for the online launch: https://lnkd.in/e6vNWErn join/19:meeting_MTA1ZTA4YjItZDAwNi00NDI4LWI4NmItMjQ0NDJiMWU1ZGU3@thread.v2/0?context=%7B%22Tid%22:%2232a4a730-19d5-4452-a692- bfc71ed689c2%22,%22Oid%22:%2285a3a3b5-270e-4e06-bde1-045ce8f3ded4%22%7D

👋 Meet the Team: Introducing, Dr Alana James. Principal Investigator 🔍 Alana is an Assistant Professor in Fashion in the School of Design at Northumbria University. Her expertise lies in the use of design tools, methods, and approaches to create sustainable innovation in the global fashion value chain. Through her work she collaborates with multiple disciplines and stakeholders across the fashion and textile sector. ✏ ✂   Alana brings this experience to her role as Director for the IMPACT+ Network, where her priorities are to bridge disciplinary knowledge and develop transparent and inclusive relationships with integral project partners. Want to learn more about our work in improving environmental impact assessment methods? ♻ 🌎   Visit our website, link in comments ⬇ #environmentalimpact #sustainablefashion

Discover fashion practices that can protect, restore, and regenerate ecosystems 🌍 Join our Fashion Values: Nature course to explore the impact of fashion on biodiversity and earth’s systems. 📌 This free online, open-access course will help you use design thinking to radically rethink fashion products, services, and systems.⁠ 👉 By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to... 💡 Reflect on fashion’s relationship with nature. 💡 Understand nature's systems that support life (biosphere) and explore fashion practices that could operate within the limits of nature's systems. 💡 Critically examine fashion practices that can protect, restore and regenerate nature's systems, and transform fashion's relationship with nature. 💡 Develop and evaluate a fashion practice that can regenerate nature. ❓ Who can take part? Anyone can take part in our courses! This course will empower learners with the tools to address challenges facing fashion today. This includes students, sustainability professionals, fashion and business professionals, educators, designers, strategists, and communicators. ❓ When can I take part? You can start studying today! With just 3 hours of weekly study across the 4 weeks suggested, our courses allow you to learn at your own pace. ❓ How can I join? 🔗 Join this course and learn more via this link: https://lnkd.in/etp7WFw7 Image Credit: MA Fashion Futures alumna Anustha Kishor’s (@anusthakishor) project @climatecohort. Photo by @otin.media Centre for Sustainable Fashion, London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. #FashionValues #FashionValuesNature #SustainableFashion #SustainableDesign #FreeOnlineCourse #FreeFashionCourse #FreeSustainabilityCourse #CSF #LCF #CentreForSustainableFashion #LondonCollegeOfFashion #FashionEducation #SustainabilityEducation

I was recently asked about my position on cross_innovation on the roof of the U-Institute in Berlin. The previous evening had stimulated an exchange and the crossing of visions and positions. As is all too often the case, there is a certain consensus on innovation in the sense of sustainable behavior: it is the need to look at what we have known for a long time. About technologies, materials and people. A few evenings later, I have the opportunity to hear the positions of the Digital Multilogue on Fashion Education  “On grief, exnovation and the power of Mutual learning” Prof. Dr. Renate Stauss and Prof. Franziska Schreiber bring together the interdisciplinary curiosity and intrinsically motivated learning of international players. If the effects and side effects are not clarified at the outset, we run the risk of achieving efficiency for processes that are ultimately harmful. That is why it is important to unlearn and let go. This also applies to the work with upcycling practices that require close examination of the controversies and contradictions. Material | Dematerialization  Growth | Degrowth Local | Global Price | Value Sustainable practice | Being paid Transition | Exnovation  Waste | Art Creative freedom | Sufficiency  Pressure of innovation | Concise design  Industry | People and planet Sprint | Persistence "Single vision produces worse illusions than double vision or many-headed monsters.“ Donna Haraway. We need to act. How can we come into action together the next week, next moth, next year? What can we do immediately? What process changes do we need? What ways of thinking do we need? #fashion Upcycling #innovation #exnovation #SDGS

At DAMō, our commitment to fostering creativity through #education is unwavering. 📚 In recent months, we've intensified our partnerships with students and esteemed fashion institutes across Italy, sparking meaningful conversations on sustainability within the fashion realm. These collaborations have been a journey of exploration, addressing environmental challenges and devising innovative solutions for a greener future in the #fashionindustry. 💡 Working alongside passionate young talents has been incredibly inspiring; it's not just about nurturing the designers of tomorrow but also about sharing our insights with the next generation of creative thinkers. Educating students on sustainability within fashion isn't just important; it's imperative. It's about instilling an understanding of the impact of their consumption choices and cultivating an appreciation for #sustainablepractices. 🌱 Moreover, integrating sustainability into education ignites creativity and drives #innovation, propelling students to seek out novel sustainable solutions and technologies in fashion. Our dedication to promoting sustainability education remains steadfast, as does our collaboration with leading fashion schools. Together, we aim to build a solid foundation for every young creative mind, ensuring sustainability becomes an integral part of their educational journey. SCHOLA Accademia Italiana Accademia di Belle Arti di Frosinone Accademia di Belle Arti Macerata Karisia Paponi Cecilia Rinaldi ‎‎Sarah Magni anita ficini Selene Micheletti Lorenzo Tagliapietra Feedel Ventures #damostudio #sustainablefashion #slowfashion #deadstock #circularfashion #circularfashionrevolution #sustainabletextiles

I am delighted to share that on July 16th, 2024, I successfully completed my academic journey at Politecnico di Milano earning my Master’s Degree in Industrial Management Engineering. I achieved this milestone by defending my dissertation, titled 'The Relationship between Lean Practices and Environmental Performance in the Production Process of Luxury Fashion Clothing.' This research explores the intersection of efficient production methodologies and sustainable practices within the high-end fashion industry, reflecting my commitment to renewing and innovating production processes to meet both economic and environmental goals.

Design without borders: What digital means for textile designers Digital technologies are changing textile design faster and more profoundly than ever before. From new creative possibilities to innovative production processes, digitalisation is opening up completely new perspectives for designers. What's particularly exciting: #drupa2024 gave a glimpse of how these developments are breaking down traditional boundaries and could fundamentally change design and production. In our latest blog post, we take a look at the opportunities and challenges that digitalisation brings to the textile industry. Discover how designers are using digital tools to revolutionise their creative ideas and focus on sustainability and individuality. Curious? Read the full article. You'll find the link in the comments below! 👇