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Fashion Design Education Towards Transition: Circularity and Biobased Materials

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Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies (AHFE 2021)

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Decisions made at the creation process are crucial, requiring great awareness. Aesthetics, careful assessment of materials, production and recovery are key aspects when designing Fashion within a Circular Economy framework. This paper analyses Design practices and Material preferences through a mixed methods approach to infer on the level of success of implemented curricula (undergraduate), using diverse strategies aimed at circularity. Overall outcomes confirm the relevance of a student-centered classroom and adopted content transfer approaches (e.g., critical thinking, active/interactive learning, dual-ideation process, collaborative learning, experimental/exploratory), facilitating higher engagement from pupils and problem-solving; informed decisions, planning for longevity, fitting processes, awareness of material flow and values, resulted also in a massive increase on bio-based and natural materials application (production from varied waste streams, textile and non-textile residues) as well as a decrease on synthetic dyes and virgin fibers. Although not exhaustive, this analysis may benefit future related briefs or teaching/learning adjustments.

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The author thanks the support from Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and REDes, CIAUD, Lisbon School of Architecture – ULisboa.

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  1. CIAUD, Lisbon School of Architecture, Universidade de Lisboa, Rua Sá Nogueira, 1349-063, Lisbon, Portugal

    Gabriela Forman

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  1. CIAUD & School of Applied Arts, Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco, Castelo Branco, Portugal

    Daniel Raposo

  2. ID+ & Design School, Polytechnic Institute of Cávado and Ave, Barcelos, Portugal

    Nuno Martins

  3. CECS/Institute of Social Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

    Daniel Brandão

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Forman, G. (2021). Fashion Design Education Towards Transition: Circularity and Biobased Materials. In: Raposo, D., Martins, N., Brandão, D. (eds) Advances in Human Dynamics for the Development of Contemporary Societies. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 277. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80415-2_4

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