Environmental and Social Sustainability: Unite Textile and Fashion Design Education with a Social Cause
摘要
This chapter aims to raise awareness by introducing the students to a type of lectures where the practical teaching is focused in the student. It also presents the project and the different methodologies that are expected to be applied during the activity. Based on an experimental methodology, the chapter starts with a literature review regarding the area of fashion sustainability nowadays, upcycling definitions and its different applications, and it presents all the steps that are needed to ensure its practical and further application in the academy. This project aims to reduce the fashion footprint in terms of waste and leftovers from clothing production cycles on the industry and unused clothing from the consumers. With the gathering of these materials will be possible to bring together the first-year fashion students for a social cause and improving their sewing skills. The objective is to use several techniques of assembly and types of seams to produce duvets. Those duvets will be properly spread across homeless persons, refugees and Children in need. To reduce the fashion footprint, this project aims to encourage new students and future professionals to participate in social and sustainable practices.