1st Edition

The Future of Fashion Education Speculation, Experience and Collaboration

Edited By Kirsten Scott, Barry Curtis, Claire Pajaczkowska Copyright 2025
252 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

252 Pages 38 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Fashion education is changing. Not only is it preparing students for induction into the ethos and business practices of a wide variety of design, manufacturing, distribution, marketing, retailing, and promotional activities, it is also offering understanding and empowerment for meeting the challenges of sustainability, decolonisation, and new business models. This book presents 20 essays by... Read more

Preface - Dr. Kirsten Scott.

Privilege Keynote - Bel Jacobs.

Introduction - Speculating, Experiencing and Collaborating.

Dr. Claire Pajaczkowska and Professor Barry Curtis.

Part I: Fashion Futures: Speculations

1. Cradle to Cradle - Creating to Survive: A Manifesto for Design Education.

Helga Behrmann.

2. Mediating wearer-clothing relationships - a case study in Fashion Design Education.

 Ana Neto and Professor Gabriela Forman.

3. Cast-aways: Repair as a way to alter consumer habits.

 Gauri Sinari and Dr. Geetha Pandey.

4. The Fashion Kitchen - a case study on integrating biomaterials into fashion design education.

 Noorin Khamisani, Vanessa Gate and Mirko Daneluzzo.

5. Something or Other: ‘Othering Tech’ and Ideational Learning Environments for Fashion.

Simon Thorogood.

Part II : Future Education: Experiences

6. Arguing for a Broader Engagement of Fashion Students with Politics - Starting with a Discussion of Labour.

 Ira Solomatina.

7. Uniqueness in Fashon - Disrupting Modernity, Igniting Indigenous Romanticism.

Pierre-Antoine Vettorello

8. An Autoethnographic Narrative of Chinese Students' Quietness: A Reflection on Experiences of Learning and Teaching in Fashion.

 Dr. Yu Lun Eve Lin.

9. Fashion is a Field: Seeing Through the Eyes of an Ethnologist.

 Dr Kristin Hahn.

10. Cultural Studies in Higher Education: Assessments, Learning Outcomes and Scope.

Dr. Rishab Manocha.

11. A Decolonial Trend Forecasting Methodology.

Sandra Mathey Garcia-Rada.

12. Landworkers’ Wardrobe; an enquiry into relational design and rethinking the role of designer.

 Zoe Gilbertson

Part III: Communication and Collaboration

13. Fashion, Culture and Design Dialogues.

 Dr. Kirsten Scott and Yvonne Ntiamoah.

14. Bridging Decoloniality and Sustainability in Fashion.

Dr Katrina Sark.

15. International collaborative project framework for COIL in fashion education

Dr. Patsy Perry, Rebecca Neary, Kat Scott, and Dr. Elizabeth Kealy-Morris.

16. The Global Artisan Project: A Collaborative, Co-Creation Project, Connecting Fashion Undergraduates and Indian Artisans.

Shalini Gupta, Dr. Elizabeth Kealy-Morris, and Ishi Srivastava 

17. The (Only) Future of Fashion? The Role of Small Sustainable Entrepreneurship in Driving Transformational Change.

 Dr. Patrick `Elf and Professor Andrea Werner.

 

Index

 

Biography

Kirsten Scott is Head of Research at Istituto Marangoni London.

Barry Curtis is Professor Emeritus of Visual Culture [Middlesex University] where he was Head of School and Director of Research.

Claire Pajaczkowska studied art and design in London and New York. She has published widely on film, art, design, and popular culture.