Full Description
Fashion education is changing. Not only is it preparing students for induction into the ethos and business practices of a wide variety of design, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, retailing, and promotional activities, it is also offering understanding and empowerment for meeting the challenges of sustainability, decolonisation, and new business models. This book presents 20 essays by cosmopolitan thinkers, activists, and designers to explore new challenges and potentials for fashion education.
The chapters comprise case studies, manifestos, and detailed analyses of the realpolitik of collaborating across continents and more sustained overviews of the imminent crises and prospective challenges that face practitioners. Recurring themes include the geopolitics of globalisation, the imbalances between North and South, decolonisation, intersectionality, exploitation, cultural appropriation, and social justice. The thought-provoking contributions show that, although we confront a common challenge in shaping the future of education, we have varied approaches and opportunities to address a transforming industry.
This edited collection addresses the issues of greatest concern to students, designers, lecturers and researchers in fashion and allied fields of creative design and as such will find a varied audience.
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 as a way to 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 Undergraduates and Indian Artisans. 17. The (Only) Future of Fashion? The Role of Small Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Driving Transformational Change. Index
