Building on the workshops/kick-off this autumn, the MA Fashion and Society students ventured on a dedicated project to explore fashion’s role in imagining sustainable futures.
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The project, MEST4700 Project in Practice, is a six-week subject part of the Master’s Degree Programme in Fashion and Society, and Course leader, Dr Jo Cramer, kicked the project off by asking:
- How can we use design to imagine sustainable futures?
- What is the role of fashion within that?
- Because if we can’t imagine sustainable futures, then how can then begin to build them?
- The dominant imaginaries become so infused into our societies and become invisible, we take them for granted. Who gains and who does not from these dominant futures?
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Then followed presentations and group tasks by IMAGINE researchers Marie Hebrok and James Lowley.
Exam – oral presentation
On the morning of the 23rd of March, the 5 MA students presented their projects to external sensors and some of the IMAGINE team.
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The projects grappled with materiality as well as cultural meaning in the future, examining the current issues that the fashion industry is facing.
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You can read more about the student work in our upcoming project gallery.