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🧵 LCF Sampled x Research: Design Journeys towards Social Change, Talk + Q&A 🧵 Free in-person event. 🗓️ Wednesday 12 February | ⏰ 6-8pm | 📍London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London (LCF, UAL), 105 Carpenters Road, London, E20 2AR Join us for a thought-provoking evening with Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Dr Francesco Mazzarella and PhD candidate, Victoria Ho. They will each deliver a talk exploring the topic of design journeys and social change. 📌 Victoria will begin by reflecting on her PhD work and lessons learned from her work in Vietnam and with the social enterprise, Fashion4Freedom, that supports Vietnamese artisans through a sustainable and culturally responsible model. 📌 Francesco will follow, sharing insights from his latest research trip in Vietnam and Australia, exploring his creative journey into the resourcefulness, reciprocity and resilience of Indigenous communities. The talk will take place 6-7pm at London College of Fashion’s Lecture Theatre (M01), followed by drinks reception from 7-8pm outside the Lecture Theatre. 🔗 Learn more and book your free ticket now: https://lnkd.in/e9w9WEwW Image credit & description: Tang Chi from the Ta Oi Tribe with threads donated by Coats. Photo by Fashion4Freedom #CentreForSustainableFashion #LondonCollegeOfFashion #UniversityOfTheArtsLondon #SustainableFashion #SustainableDesign

Final Call | Apply now to the Next Gen Assembly 2025! 🔜 Applications close Friday 24th January 2025. Are you a compassionate, hopeful and creative thinker and doer, ready to advocate and reimagine how fashion can protect, restore, and regenerate the natural world? 🌏 You’re invited to apply to the Next Gen Assembly 2025, an impactful advocacy programme, enabling the next generation to gain access to the industry, have their voices heard and ideas nurtured.  🌱 This year's cohort will explore, 'How Can Fashion Value the Rights of Nature?' They will advocate for systems that centre nature and interspecies justice and understand the role that fashion plays in ecosystem stress.    Through a year-long collaborative programme supported by Target, the Next Gen Assembly will:  - Collaboratively engage in Centre for Sustainable Fashion's Fashion Values (FV): Nature curriculum  - Participate in a series of online workshops, networking and community-building activities and deliver an online Masterclass event.   - Attend the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition 2025 on 3-5 June 2025, with travel and accommodation covered, playing an integral role at the Summit.   Global Fashion Agenda and Centre for Sustainable Fashion will support the eight selected candidates in developing skills, knowledge, and capabilities as sustainability changemakers.  🚨 Applications close Friday 24 January 2025. Those interested are required to complete an application form and submit a video attached to the form. Applicants must be between 18-30 years old. Full eligibility is outlined in the call out information. 📣 Apply now and learn more: https://lnkd.in/eB-eXzQA Image description and credit: The 2024 Next Gen Assembly and 2023 Next Gen Assembly cohorts attending the Global Fashion Summits in 2024 and 2023 and related events. Photos by Global Fashion Agenda. #GlobalFashionAgenda #NextGenAssembly #FashionValues #SustainableFashion #SustainableEducation #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF

Aditi Mayer, this year’s Next Gen Assembly ambassador, calls on students and young professionals to advocate for how fashion can be transformed to protect, restore, and regenerate natural life on our planet. Next Gen Assembly offers a unique opportunity to join an impactful advocacy programme, enabling the next generation to gain access to the industry, have their voices heard and ideas nurtured. The eight selected members will: ・Advocate for systems prioritising nature and interspecies justice. ・Attend the Global Fashion Summit: Copenhagen Edition (3–5 June 2025), with travel and accommodation fully covered. ・Participate in workshops, networking opportunities, and community-building activities. 🌏 Apply now via the link: https://lnkd.in/eB-eXzQA The Next Gen Assembly 2025 is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and the the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values (FV) programme #NextGenAssembly

As the fashion industry faces the urgent need to redefine its values and practices, the 2024 Next Gen Assembly brings together voices from across the globe to explore, promote, and communicate diverse economic values and alternative models for the fashion ecosystem under the theme of ‘Economies of Wellbeing’. This playbook introduces the Wellbeing Spiral, a unique framework that emphasises the iterative and deeply personal nature of systemic transformation. By centring the interconnected stages of Unlearning and Relearning, Ideating, and Shifting, the spiral provides actionable pathways for individuals and organisations that advocate for climate, social, and racial justice in both global and local contexts. Explore these forward-thinking perspectives by downloading the 2024 Next Gen Assembly: Wellbeing Spiral Playbook via the link: https://lnkd.in/dmvnhYGw The Next Gen Assembly 2025 is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda and the the Centre for Sustainable Fashion’s Fashion Values (FV) programme.

🌀Introducing the Wellbeing Spiral Playbook, a resource developed by the 2024 Next Gen Assembly cohort, through their collaboration, exploration, and insights. Under the theme of ‘Economies of Wellbeing’, the playbook brings together voices from across the globe to explore, promote, and communicate diverse economic values and alternative models for the fashion ecosystem. This playbook highlights the collective perspectives of eight emerging professionals in fashion and sustainability from diverse nationalities and backgrounds. It serves not as a conventional industry report but as a thought piece rooted in lived experiences and shared ideas, offering a fresh lens to consider wellbeing as a pathway for transformation. This playbook introduces the Wellbeing Spiral, a unique framework that emphasises the iterative and deeply personal nature of systemic transformation. By centring the interconnected stages of Unlearning and Relearning, Ideating, and Shifting, it’s designed to holistically guide individuals and organisations through actionable tools and insights to centre wellbeing in their practice and advance climate, social and racial justice locally and globally. This playbook is a call to action - what fashion ecosystem do you want to be a part of? 📩 Download The 2024 Next Gen Assembly’s Wellbeing Spiral Playbook to explore how you can implement initiatives centred on wellbeing and contribute to reshaping the future of fashion: https://lnkd.in/dmvnhYGw The Next Gen Assembly is an impactful advocacy programme for talented students and early-career professionals, led by Global Fashion Agenda (GFA) and Centre for Sustainable Fashion's (CSF) Fashion Values (FV) programme. Throughout the year, the 2024 Next Gen Assembly completed CSF's Fashion Values: Economy course, engaged in workshops by GFA and CSF, delivered an online Masterclass, facilitated collaborative workshops with industry and academia and participated in the 2024 Global Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, including delivering their manifesto on the main stage and partaking in a roundtable with industry leaders.  #NextGenAssembly #NextGenAssembly2024 #GlobalFashionAgenda #GFA #CentreForSustainableFashion #CSF #EconomiesOfWellbeing #FashionValues #SustainableFashion

📻 New podcast with Professor Helen Storey by Times Higher Education (THE) Centre for Sustainable Fashion researcher, artist and designer, Prof Helen Storey, tells the journey of her career, from being an award-winning fashion designer to collaborating with scientists to becoming the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees’ (UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency) first Designer in Residence, working in refugee camps in the Middle East and Africa. She discusses these cross-pollinated ways of working between fashion, art, science and politics in her practice, showcased throughout her 30-year creative archive donation to London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London (LCF, UAL). Storey speaks of the archive, ‘I want to be able to paint in the human story of how these things were lived and how they came to be. And to continue to make them relevant to now. So, although the archive suggests past, it’s a living archive...’ The conversation highlights the ways Storey’s work has critiqued and questioned fashion, foregrounding collective ways of working, and brings to light how combining art and science can act as a bridge for engaging with overwhelming issues such as the climate crisis, plastics pollution and global displacement. 🎧 Listen to the podcast now – on Spotify, Apple or on Times Higher Education: https://lnkd.in/e6x3jxqp Storey's archive donation is free to access at London College of Fashion, University of the Arts London. For any enquires relating to access, to both digital and physical elements of the collection, please contact LCF Archives at archives@fashion.arts.ac.uk Image description: Helen Storey overlooks Zaatari refugee camp as UNHRC Designer in Residence, Jordan, April 2019.

In the latest episode of Times Higher Education Campus podcast, Centre for Sustainable Fashion's Professor Helen Storey discusses her pioneering work in fashion and the donation of her 30-year creative archive to UAL. The conversation covers what fashion and science bring to each other and how art can be a conduit for people to connect with overwhelming issues such as climate change, plastics pollution and global displacement ↓ 🎧 Tune in to the podcast: https://lnkd.in/e6x3jxqp

📣 New CSF Blog Post! 📖 Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) Researcher Dr Francesco Mazzarella creatively reflects on his recent research trip to Melbourne (Naarm) in Australia in October-November 2024, as a Visiting Researcher at RMIT University. Through a thought-provoking creative writing piece, he shares his experiential journey on Australian land, exploring decolonising fashion and dominant design practice and cultural reconciliation with First Nations peoples. He observes, ‘In this journey on Country, I discover new ways of being – ways of doing – ways of making. I’m struck by the quality of PRS – a Practice Research Symposium about radical experimentation – articulated with lots of confidence. Through sensory practices, embodied criticality, creative care, cross-cultural exchange – the future is woven here...” 🔗 Read the full blog now: https://lnkd.in/eNkSxRUz Image descriptions & credits: 1. Pop-up community runway at Melbourne Fashion Week, Naarm, Australia. Photo by Francesco Mazzarella. 2. Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Naarm. Photo by Francesco Mazzarella. 3. Contemporary Aboriginal Art at the National Gallery of Victoria gallery in Melbourne, Naarm. Photo by Francesco Mazzerella. 4. Dr Francesco Mazzarella & staff members of the School of Fashion & Textiles at RMIT University. 5. Workshop ‘Unlock your potential as a design change-maker’ by Dr Francesco Mazzarella at RMIT University. 6. Prof. Alice Payne presenting the Planetary Civics Inquiry at RMIT University in Melbourne, Naarm. 7. Dr Francesco Mazzarella with members of RMIT University in Melbourne, Naarm. 8. Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture at Monash University Uni in Melbourne, Naarm. Photo by Francesco Mazzarella. 9. Lumogram created by Dr Francesco Mazzarella during a seminar organised by the Emerging Technologies Research Lab, Monash University in Melbourne, Naarm. Photo by Francesco Mazzarella.

📣 Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) | 🗓️ 9th - 10th January 2025 South West England Fibreshed and South East England Fibreshed with Centre for Sustainable Fashion are hosting a Farmer-Designer meet-up alongside the Oxford Real Farming Conference. The in-person meet-up is hosted at The King’s Arms, Oxford, January 9th, 2025, 6-8pm. The meetups are co-funded by Farming the Future and the Future Fashion Landscapes project collaboration, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 🔗 Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/dn-M5Jnn Join Oxford Real Farming Conference (ORFC) 2025, from 9th-10th January, online to hear from speakers from the UK and around the world on the crucial issues facing the real food and farming movement right now. With 35+ sessions live-streamed from Oxford, the ORFC 2025 online line-up of talks and discussions includes: ·  Farming today for the climate of tomorrow ·  New pathways towards land justice ·  Practical take-homes on: living mulches, tree fodder, nitrogen-fixing straw ·  Traditional ecological knowledge and land-based wisdom ·  Building a fossil-free food system  ·  Livestock grazing for biodiversity ·  Healthy organic and biodynamic soils ·  Whole farm approaches and the role of tech ·  Workers’ rights and social justice in food systems ·  Building an anti-fascist farming movement ·  Ultra-processed foods and agroecological diet ·  Global farmer connections and much more! ORFC wants everyone to have the opportunity to partake in the knowledge sharing. Tickets range in pricing based from £15 to £50. Additionally, bursary tickets are free to all delegates from majority world countries and to all who would not otherwise be able to attend. There is no application required. 🎟️ Learn more & book now: https://lnkd.in/e2SfQ9PH #FutureFashionLandscapes #OxfordRealFarmingConference

Let's celebrate Professor Dilys Williams for her leadership in delivering pioneering industry change programmes. ╰┈➤ Professor Dilys is a Professor of Fashion Design for Sustainability at University of the Arts London where she has worked for over 17 years. ╰┈➤ Read more: https://lnkd.in/ep6VSkun