Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry

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Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry
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Overview

The fundamentals of circular fashion unraveled, learn about circularity in all steps of the fashion value chain. From new textile materials and circular design all the way to business modelling.

Duration	5 weeks
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Total fee	Free
Mode of learning	Online
Difficulty level	Intermediate
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Credential	Certificate

Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry
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Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry
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Skills you will learn

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Who should do this course?

This course will provide designers, retailers, scientists, engineers and all working at the industry or with an interest in fashion with holistic insights in the complex challenges of circular fashion, while engaging you to start the transition to circularity within your personal and/or professional practices.

What are the course deliverables?

After the course you will know the core concepts and tools to help better understand circular economy in the fashion industry. Some of the topics that are covered focus on understanding the challenge of recycling, design for circularity, alternative textiles through biobased innovation and circular business modelling to help bring innovations to the market.The difference between sustainability & circularity
Constructing identity through consumption
The difference between eco to ego in fashion
Design for circularity
Reflect on design thinking
Ecosystem circularity
Individual agency and organic collectives in fashion
Critique small-scale solutions
Ecosystems in nature
Challenge of governing the transition towards circularity from outsourcing countries
Closing the loop in fashion
The complexity of textiles
Challenges and opportunities of textile recycling
Understand the loop of organic- and synthetic textiles
Challenge of textile blends
Design for recycling and disassembly
Biobased innovation and new materialism
Learn about future raw materials
New production processes
Production capacity, automation and upscaling
Forecasting biomaterials in fashion
Debating fast fashion and online marketing
Business as crafting value
Circular business modelling
Circular business in second hand clothing market
Learn about a new economic paradigm
Understand investment and acceleration
Insight into blockchain
How blockchain can be used for transparency in the fashion value chain
Understand fashion from a retail perspective
E-commerce and circular retail models

More about this course

The fashion industry has a large influence on the global economy and is more and more known for its social and environmental impact. Everywhere, new sustainable initiatives are arising from recycling, upcycling to creating clothes from compostable materials. Circularity tough, is a complex phenomenon. What will the future bring us? Are we indeed going to decompose our clothes in our own garden?
This online course brings you a comprehensive introduction in circular fashion brought to you by roughly thirty different experts from both academia and practice. You will learn about the versatile task of transitioning towards circular fashion, from the unique collaboration between Wageningen University & Research, ArtEZ University of the Arts and many other experts.

Circular Fashion: Design, Science and Value in a Sustainable Clothing Industry
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Curriculum

Module 1: Translation and interpretations

Introduction to terms and concepts such as sustainability and circularity, understanding the role of eco in fashion. First introduction to design for circularity

Module 2: Ecosystem circularity

Understanding the role of ecosystems in fashion. How to disrupt current thinking and mindset in the fashion industry and govern this transition

Module 3: Closing the loop

Introduction to the complexity of materials and recycling of textiles. Understand the importance of design for disassembly and recycling

Module 4: Biobased innovation & new materialism

Learn about new biobased materials for textiles, understand the change in production processes and reflect on the future influence of biobased materials in fashion.

Module 5: Business as crafting value

Introduction to economic paradigms and new forms of value creation for circularity in the fashion industry. Understand investment and acceleration and circular retail models.