UAL x LDF: Future Visions
This strand takes a speculative and future-focussed approach to Europe.
As the axis of global power is moving from west to east, how will our relationship with Europe develop in a post Brexit landscape?
We will explore new methods we can use to expand on our partnerships in Western Europe and new ways to collaborate with Eastern European countries. By exploring shared values, interests and challenges is it possible to activate an extended European creative community for change?
Fashion Tech Alliance
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, Fashion Tech Alliance: Weaving Universities and Companies to Co-create Fashion-Tech Future Talents Partners: UAL, TU Delft, Estia (France), Boras (Sweden), Stentle, Studio Pauline van Dongen, Centexbel, Pespow, Decathlon, PVH, We Love You, Grado Zero, Decathlon. -
, Garment Prototyping at TUDelft. is 3dprinted dress Iris van Herpen. -
, Fashion-tech Interline - ‘phygital’ - a physical collection composed of 3 raincoats with its digital twin available on the mobile app, MA Innovative Fashion Production, LCF (2021).
Weaving Universities and companies to co-create fashion-tech future talents
FTAlliance is a three-year project aimed to facilitate the exchange and flow of knowledge within the Fashion-Tech sector to boost students’ employability and innovation potential.
Fashion-Tech is impacting the fashion industry on all levels: leading to new processes, tools, and professional roles with cross-disciplinary approaches. Therefore, there is an increasing urgency for companies and HEIs to work together, to find ways to integrate new technologies into fashion and design, to explore the future of job roles, education and recruitment.
The aim of the project is to increase the relevance, quality, and impact of fashion-tech innovations as well as the competitiveness of the European fashion system at a global level revamping the industry through innovative practices.
Partners: UAL, TU Delft, Estia (France), Boras (Sweden), Stentle, Studio Pauline van Dongen, Centexbel, Pespow, Decathlon, PVH, We Love You, Grado Zero, Decathlon.

DeFINE
Welcome Ceremony | DeFINE Forum 2021
A three-year collaborative project, which aims to support the fusion of cutting-edge technologies and innovation with the European fashion and design industries.
Partners: UAL, Polytecnic Milano, Boras, incubator INK, Euratex, IFM Paris, Media Deals Berlin, EBN Brussels.
unbauhaus
Recording of event in July this year spotlighting UAL’s collective response to the European Commission’s New European Bauhaus (NEB).
In a context of uncertainties, turbulence and contestation, in late 2020 the European Commission reached for the concept of the Bauhaus to catalyse new thinking on Europe’s futures. Since then, the ‘New European Bauhaus’ initiative has resulted in bringing together exemplars of social innovation, design, architecture and community action, as well as criticism and debate. As part of this, in July UAL hosted an online event that brought together creative responses and challenges to the framing of the NEB and its Eurocentric assumptions in its key terms ‘beautiful’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘inclusive’.
Co-curated by UAL’s Social Design Institute, Decolonising Arts Institute and Creative Computing Institute with London College of Communication, this event showcased diverse, intersectional responses to these three terms. Reflecting on the ideas that emerged, curators Professor Lucy Kimbell (SDI) and Professor Ramia Maze (LCC) will map out perspectives and positions on how Europe’s futures can be re-imagined, and the potential for creative practices to envision, inspire, contest and create equitable futures.
unbauhaus
FashionSEEDS

FashionSEEDS, explores what a transformed education system in Fashion Design for Sustainability could look like.
Education is the leverage point for change in societies, and in a time of climate emergency, individual and systemic change in fashion is needed now more than ever.
FashionSEEDS (Fashion Societal, Economic & Environmental Design-led Sustainability) offers a set of tools and resources to help us consider what to teach, how to teach, who to learn with and how far we can change or transform our teaching through the discipline of Fashion Design for Sustainability. It has been developed over three years of research, reflection and co-design by a group of fashion tutors from across four universities in Europe, using a co-enquiry approach to look at the distinctions and connections between our geographies, cultures and organisations.
www.fashionseeds.org will launch at the Digital Multilogue fashion education conference on 1-2 October 2021.
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Together in Europe: Creative Communities for Change, University of the Arts London x London Design Festival, 2021 Design by Riccardo Righi
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1-2pm Thursday, 23 September 2021