Pad (Jun 2021)
The Emergence of Sustainability and the Textile and Fashion Design Education
Abstract
This paper intends to reflect on the relationship between design and academia and its context in a fragile and integrated ecosystem challenges such as the fashion system and its sustainability in a strategy of circular economy and change of social paradigm for the emergency of the future. Design theories and practices are presented as fundamental for the sustainability of the fashion system and for human survival. Different approaches will be confronted in a critical perspective of ideas and possible paths to follow as essential tools for a more conscious and design creative thinking. The methodology will be carried out through a review of literature where it is intended to review fundamental concepts and to proceed to a critical, constructive, and real analysis on the competences of the students. Develop strategies to raise awareness about sustainability concepts and circular economy allowing to understand its importance for its learning and future. The expected result will be to identify large thematic areas indispensable to design and transversal to education which are consistent with the evolution of the textile and clothing industry and with the needs of the consumer. Also, a reflection on the importance of the theme in the current and future economy.
