In a world where information and resources are more accessible than ever before, the overall impact of human actions shows that we are further than ever from understanding how to co-exist with each other and with nature. Our community of art and design students, tutors, researchers, administrators, technicians and senior leaders at London College of Fashion, UAL, have an unprecedented imperative, opportunity and duty of care to creatively explore the role of fashion; its artistic, culture-shaping and business practices in the context of the climate emergency and social inequality.
Centre for Sustainable Fashion have published a report on our progress in embedding sustainability into our teaching and learning practices. The Education for Sustainability Transformation Interim Report contextualises the need for transformation in fashion education, and evidences the spectrum of vital ways in which LCF is critically considering and connecting fashion’s artistic, social, cultural and business practices in an ecological context.
Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, Professor Dilys Williams comments;
Central to this work is re-conceptualising the what, why and how of the fashion education system in terms of our curricula, research, pedagogies and reflexive practices towards a transformation of ourselves, of fashion and of our times. We’ve come a long way, we are leading by example, and we need to support each other now to take this work much further, to build on what we can be proud of and to stop doing the stuff that is damaging to our fellows and our home in nature.