Free Online Course: Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry

Tuesday, 21 January – Tuesday, 18 February 2020
This event is online

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The fundamentals of circular fashion unraveled, learn about circularity in all steps of the fashion value chain. From new textile materials and circular design all the way to business modelling.

What you'll learn

1. The difference between sustainability & circularity

  • Constructing identity through consumption
  • The difference between eco to ego in fashion
  • Design for circularity
  • Reflect on design thinking

2. Ecosystem circularity

  • Individual agency and organic collectives in fashion
  • Critique small-scale solutions
  • Ecosystems in nature
  • Challenge of governing the transition towards circularity from outsourcing countries

3. Closing the loop in fashion

  • The complexity of textiles
  • Challenges and opportunities of textile recycling
  • Understand the loop of organic- and synthetic textiles
  • Challenge of textile blends
  • Design for recycling and disassembly

4. Biobased innovation and new materialism

  • Learn about future raw materials
  • New production processes
  • Production capacity, automation and upscaling
  • Forecasting biomaterials in fashion
  • Debating fast fashion and online marketing

5. Business as crafting value

  • Circular business modelling

 Enroll here.