Fashion fictions: student experiences of designing sustainable fashion worlds

Aspinall, M and Twigger Holroyd, A ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3403-3516, 2024. Fashion fictions: student experiences of designing sustainable fashion worlds. International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education. ISSN 1754-3266

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Abstract

An international participatory project launched in 2020 aims to expand understandings of the possibilities for sustainable fashion by bringing people together to collaboratively outline and prototype alternative fashion worlds. As part of this initiative, affiliated activities have been introduced to the curricula of various design schools. The project offers an approach to sustainability in fashion design education that operates at a system, rather than product, level. This article examines project activities of differing durations at two institutions. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with students and tutors, it finds that participation expanded the students’ thinking about fashion, design and sustainability, generated a sense of possibility and agency, and prompted productive exploration beyond the immediate fashion context. However, some participants appeared to focus on sustainability solutions within the current system rather than questioning the status quo more deeply, indicating a need for more effective scaffolding of the speculative process.

Item Type:	Journal article
Publication Title:	International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education
Creators:	Aspinall, M. and Twigger Holroyd, A.
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Date:	5 February 2024
ISSN:	1754-3266
Identifiers:	Number Type 10.1080/17543266.2024.2310578 DOI 1860576 Other
Rights:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Divisions:	Schools > Nottingham School of Art & Design
Record created by:	Jonathan Gallacher
Date Added:	13 Feb 2024 08:21
Last Modified:	13 Feb 2024 08:21
URI:	https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/50836

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