Sustainability, Concepts, Practices & Application for Fashion
Introduction
This course introduces fashion industry professionals to the concept and science of sustainability, its relationship with the business of fashion, and strategies and work practices to shift the business to a sustainable operating mode. Coursework topics focus on defining sustainability, understanding human-induced climate change, and local and global effects that fashion has had on the Earth and its peoples.
Instructor
Andrea Kennedy, with 30 years’ experience in the fashion industry, is the founder and sustainable lead of Fashiondex.com and a professor at LIM College teaching sustainability and fashion merchandising courses.
Objectives
Articulate the meaning of sustainability on consumer-product development
Investigate innovative solutions and apply them in a SDG framework
Take steps to measure, access, reduce and offset pollution
Conceptualise and create a sustainable action plan for a fashion business
A taste of the course
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Learning objectives
Content about sustainability
An exercise to test user's knowledge
An interaction to learn about common sustainability terms
An exercise sheet to revise concepts