Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Building a Sustainability Approach for your Business

Overview

This short course is for businesses in the Fashion and Textiles industry who wish to build a sustainable approach to their concepts and practices.

This one-day course will provide delegates with an overview of sustainable approaches, concepts and practices in fashion and textiles. These approaches, concepts and practices will be examined and explored in relation to your business or practice, in order to define goals for sustainability.  

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Structure and content

This short course includes:

  • An introduction to key concepts of sustainable practice and theory within the fashion and textiles industry, including terminology and definitions.
  • Identifing the concepts that are most relevant to your business or organisation.
  • Considering the current sustainability approach of your business or organisation.
  • Building the sustainability approach for your business. From this, the goals and strategies can be defined.

Who the course is for

The course is open to any business and specifically:

  • Independent fashion or textiles businesses.
  • Practitioners in fashion and textiles.
  • Researchers new to sustainability in fashion and textiles.

This course is available to organisations looking to book a minimum of eight people.

Recommended prior knowledge

This course provides the foundations for understanding sustainable approaches and therefore no prior knowledge is required. 

Key learning outcomes

Delegates will learn:

  • An understanding of key sustainable concepts in fashion and textiles branding, manufacturing and consumption.
  • How to develop a framework to suit each individual company, organisation or brand.

What you will achieve

Delegates attending this short course will be given a Certificate of Attendance.

Benefits

Attendees will gain an understanding of corporate sustainability strategy, key sustainability issues, benchmark standards in the industry on sustainable fashion, and how your company relates to these. Based on this, attendees will be able to draft aims and priorities for defining your company’s sustainability strategy.

Our experts

Dr Emily Baines is a Senior Lecturer teaching PhD, MA and undergraduate students. She specialises in sustainable design and corporate sustainability strategy, industry analysis and the influence of industry structure on design innovation, and consumption and retail structure changes in dress textiles and ready-to-wear fashion.

Dr Claire Lerpiniere is a Senior Lecturer in textile design with over 20 years of teaching experience. This has been particularly focused on the studio practice of textile design, and its intersection with the human and ecological impacts of textiles. Claire’s research is centred on practical and conceptual approaches for paradigm shifts to create a fully ethical and sustainable fashion and textiles industry. 

Delivery

Delivery of this short course will be subject to current Covid-19 guidelines, and can be discussed to determine the most suitable method for your organisation. It is typically delivered over two sessions, for two hours each time (total of four hours).

In 2021-22 we will continue to follow UK Government guidance and adopt measures to keep our community and staff safe. This may include offering some contact hours and other elements of our provision via online technology. Find out more about these measures here.

Price

Please get in touch for details on cost.

Dates

Please get in touch for available dates.

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Contact us

For more information about this short course contact businessservices@dmu.ac.uk

 

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