Understand biodiversity in the context of fashion and create a plan for fashion that protects our earth’s systems. Discover fashion practices that can protect, restore, and regenerate ecosystems. Nature is the life force that provides us with the air, water, soil, and minerals that sustain life on earth. These elements come together in the clothes we wear. This course will help you build the knowledge, skills, and connections to reimagine fashion’s practices and develop a plan to put nature first.
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You’ll join a community of fashion and sustainability thinkers and doers that have the vision, skills, and commitment to radically transform how we live and work through fashion.
Explore the impact of fashion on biodiversity and earth’s systems
With more than one million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction, our ecosystems are under stress.
Fashion plays a direct role in this, and on this course you’ll identify how dominant damaging systems of fashion production and consumption can be transformed to protect natural life on our planet.
Use design thinking to radically rethink fashion products, services, and systems
Very few fashion companies have biodiversity strategies, but you’ll examine the tools and frameworks used by companies who are developing a nature-centred way of working.
You’ll also be set a design thinking challenge, asking you to develop a fashion product, service or system which supports the restoration and regeneration of nature.
Respond to sustainability challenges with London College of Fashion
This course is led by fashion and sustainability experts from Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) at London College of Fashion (LCF). LCF has taught over 70,000 learners from 191 countries on their FutureLearn fashion & sustainability courses to date.
You’ll benefit from the teaching of experienced fashion practitioners, world-leading researchers, as well as insights from fellow fashion and sustainability makers and doers from around the world.
What topics will you cover?
- Fashion and Nature
- Fashion, Biosphere and Biodiversity
- Fashion’s Response
- What will we do for Nature?
What will you achieve?
By the end of the course, you‘ll be able to...
- Reflect on fashion’s relationship with nature and how this relates to fashion sustainability.
- Understand nature's systems that support life (biosphere) and explore fashion practices that could operate within the limits of nature's systems. Learners understand biodiversity in the context of fashion.
- Critically examine fashion practices that can protect, restore and regenerate nature's systems, and transform fashion's relationship with nature.
- Develop and evaluate a fashion practice that can regenerate nature.
Who is the course for?
This course is designed to empower anyone with the tools to address the challenges facing fashion sustainability today.
This may include advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students, sustainability professionals, as well as fashion and business professionals, designers, strategists, and communicators.
