Abstract
A strong demand for sustainable products and processes in the textile and fashion industry and its global markets imposes a continuous transformation by implementing the guiding principle Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) in design education. The European project Fashion DIET developed teaching and learning materials as Open Educational Resources (OER) for the e-learning platform Glocal Campus. A further education module on ESD for higher education was elaborated with a three-part module comprising 42 lectures on didactic-methodical concepts, sustainable fashion design and production technologies as well as a sustainable orientation of the fashion market. The curricular implementation of ESD in all study programmes is demanded by the UNESCO. The promotion of the necessary skills of knowledge acquisition, critical reflection, autonomous decision-making, and action is also a task of design education and has been elaborated for the textile and fashion sector. A sustainability-oriented textile and fashion design is seen as the key to the sustainable transformation of this branch. Through educational processes, challenges of sustainable development in the textile and fashion design can be reflected upon. An understanding of the complex, multi-layered interrelationships between ecological, economic, social, cultural, and political conditions for sustainable development can be built up and deepened, and values and attitudes can be questioned in regard to design. This can initiate or deepen a change in consciousness of textile and fashion designers and contribute to the individual development of competencies that motivate them to get involved and enable them to responsibly shape the present and future.
Presenters
Anne-Marie GrundmeierSenior Professor, Science/ Education, University of Education Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany
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Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
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KEYWORDS
Design Curricula, Education for Sustainable Development, Fashion Design, Textile Design
