Class Sustainable and Circular Fashion Design

The Sustainable and Circular Fashion Design curricular unit (CU) aims to raise students' awareness of the importance of decision-making that the designer must make with the aim of minimizing the environmental impact on ITV (textile and clothing industry). This is one of the activities with the greatest environmental impact, so it is important to encourage students to research and learn about the principles of Sustainable Design and correlate Fashion with other fields of knowledge at an economic, social and cultural level. Consequently, students learn to execute more sustainable projects.

1. Sustainable Design and the circular economy in Fashion Design: Historical and socioeconomic framework.
2. Design methodologies and production processes with a sustainable approach: Zero-Waste, Upcycled, Sub-Cut, Slow Fashion.
3. Exploration of concepts: Fashion-able, second-hand clothing, 3 R's policy, reduce, reuse and recycle added to the life cycle of the textile and clothing product. Cradle to Cradle Philosophy. Biodegradability of materials;
4. The importance of Co-Design, Affection and Empathy in the design phase of fashion products;
5. National and international certifications and legislation;
6. Sustainable materials: examples of innovative materials;
7. Sustainable technologies: printing and different production processes: The different players in the industry, their roles and fields of action in the area of sustainability;
8. Social impact: social responsibility and examples of good practices applied in fashion design to production processes.

Classes are theoretical-practical in nature.
Students will develop their knowledge in this discipline through research into reliable sources and through exploratory and laboratory activities. Exploratory development must be recorded in the scrapbook, which serves as physical support for these studies. The good practice of Sustainability in Fashion has an associated aesthetic value that must be taken care of in these records. Learning is guided by the proposed objectives and explored contents, described above, and is carried out through theoretical-practical exercises (individual and collaborative).
The participatory nature will be encouraged, provoking, in class, questions that promote the easy assimilation of content, through teacher/student interaction in critical discussion and case study research.

BLACK, S. (2008). Eco Chic: The Fashion Paradox, London: Black Dog Publishing.

BROWN, A. (2013). ReFashioned: Cutting-Edge Clothing from Upcycled Materials. London: Laurence King.
CASSIDY, T. D., & Han, S. L. C. (2013). Upcycling fashion for mass production. Greenleaf Publishing Ltd.

CLINE, E.L. (2012). Overdressed. The shocking high cost of cheap fashion. New York: Penguin Group.

LITTLE, T. (2018). The Future of Fashion: Understanding Sustainability in the Fashion Industry. Washington: New Degree Press.

FLETCHER, K. (2008). Sustainable fashion & textiles: Design journeys. London: Earthscan.

FLETCHER, K; Grose L.(2011) Moda & Sustentabilidade. Design para mudança. São Paulo: SENAC.

GWILT. A (2018). A Practical Guide to Sustainable Fashion. Basics Fashion Design. London: Bloomsbury.

MCDONOUGH, W.; Braungart, M. (2002)Cradle to cradle: remaking the way we make things. New York: North Point Press.

THORPE, A. (2007). The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability. Washington: Island Press.