ISMAT 24154

Sustainable and Circular Fashion

• ApresentaçãoPresentation

  The CU aims to analyze the relationship between sustainable design and the current fashion industry at national and international level
• ProgramaProgramme

  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, 5 r's, reduce, reuse, recover, renew 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: stampings and different production processes; 8. Social impact: social responsibility and examples of good practices applied in fashion design to production processes. 9. Case study of Fashion designers and/or Sustainable brands nationally and internationally.
• ObjectivosObjectives

  The curricular unit intends to analyze the relationships of Sustainable Design with the current fashion industry at national and international level. This course aims to transmit the principles of Sustainable Design, study and correlate fashion with other fields of knowledge at the economic, social and environmental level. Additionally, to investigate, in an introductory way, the sustainable possibilities in the different phases of the design process: choice of materials, production/confection processes, packaging, logistics, commercial strategy and social impact. Understand the importance of changing paradigms: Analyze reference cases in order to encourage students in this area of design as a business opportunity with the aim of expanding the social responsibility of brands, designers to their consumers. The student must be able to consciously execute projects for Sustainability, taking into account the impacts in all phases of the life cycle of the products.
• BibliografiaBibliography

  Charter, M., Pan, B., & Black, S. (Eds.). (2023). Accelerating sustainability in fashion, clothing and textiles. Routledge. FLETCHER, K; Grose L.(2011) Moda & Sustentabilidade. Design para mudança. São Paulo: SENAC. GARDETTI, M. A., & Torres, A. L. (Eds.). (2017). Sustainability in fashion and textiles: values, design, production and consumption. Routledge. GWILT, Alison. (2015) Moda Sustentável. Editora: Editora Gustavo Gili, BRASIL. HETHORN, J. and ULASEWICZ, C. (2008). Sustainable fashion - why now? : a conversation about issues, practices, and possibilities. New York: Fairchild. RISSANEN, T., & McQuillan, H. (2016). Zero waste fashion design (Vol. 57). Bloomsbury Publishing. THORPE, A. (2007). The Designer’s Atlas of Sustainability. Washington: Island Press
• MetodologiaMethodology

  Students will have access to visual material made available through moodle, as well as texts and videos relevant to the course unit. The assessment is continuous and includes constant development work which will be monitored by the teacher in class in order to provide support and pass on knowledge for its correct development.
• LínguaLanguage

  Português
• TipoType

  Semestral
• ECTS

  4
• NaturezaNature

  Mandatory
• EstágioInternship

  Não