Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), UAL

Description

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) explores the field of Design for Sustainability and its application to fashion as both artistic and business practice.

Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF) shapes and contributes to the field of Design for Sustainability through three key intersecting areas: research, education and knowledge exchange with industry. CSF aims to provoke, challenge, and question the status quo in fashion; by engaging in transformational design which cross-references fashion’s ecological, social, economic, and cultural agendas.

CSF was conceived to question and challenge reactionary fashion cultures, which reflect and re-enforce patterns of excessive consumption and disconnection, to expand fashion’s ability to connect, delight and identify individual and collective values.

Since its inception in 2008, CSF has continued to produce an extensive range of new research, extending knowledge and understanding of fashion as a discipline. Its influence, locally and globally, is expanded by working with industry to impact practice, education to transform fashion’s role in society, and with wider publics to influence political change.

Members create, exhibit, and publish world-recognised research in:

• cultures and practices of sustainability;
• sufficiency: questioning consumption and growth ecological literacy;
• action in climate emergency;
• post-human thinking;
• social, racial, gender and intergenerational justice community resilience;
• practices of care and wellbeing

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2008

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University affiliation(s)

University of the Arts London
London

Additional Partnerships

Centre for Sustainable Fashion partners with academic institutions locally and globally, micro, small and large businesses, as well as UN agencies, governmental organisations and communities locally and globally.