25 Sep 2020 / Education and research

Shift, leap, act: sustainability and design

Dialogues with Dr. Kate Fletcher, pioneer in sustainable fashion and new guest professor at Design School Kolding
By Marianne Baggesen Hilger

Design School Kolding is proud to welcome Dr. Kate Fletcher as guest professor this fall. The professorship represents the culmination of a longstanding collaboration between Kate Fletcher and Design School Kolding on research activities, publications and more relating to sustainability in fashion and textile design.

Dr. Kate Fletcher will be giving her first talk and seminar as guest professor online on 5 October, 9:00 – 12:00. Everyone is welcome. Please join via Zoom

Programme
 9:00 – 9:05 Welcome and introduction by Professor Thomas Binder

9:05 – 9:50 Fashion is a verb. Stories of movement and change. Open lecture by Dr. Kate Fletcher

9:50 – 10:00 Short break (and switch to new ZOOM room)

10:00 – 11:00 Who are you? A relay conversation about where the MA Design for Planet students are heading 

  • Eun Sun Park, MA 1 course Learning from the Past, interdisciplinary group project: Traces of life
  • Georgina Norris, MA 2 Graduation Project: Tangible, Aesthetic Circular Visions: Exploring the Designer Role in Supporting Recycled Materials within a Circular Economy
  • Marianne Noer, MA 2 Graduation Project: Where are all the sheep? The value of local wool and its role in rural communities
  • Ashna Patel, MA 2 Graduation Project: Conscious collaborative clothing

Moderated by Assistant Professor Ulla Ræbild

11:00 – 12:00 Open discussion: What is the role of the designer in a transition towards sustainable living?

Moderated by Professor Thomas Binder

About Dr. Kate Fletcher
Kate Fletcher’s work is both rooted in nature’s principles and engaged with the cultural and creative forces of fashion and design. For more than two decades, her original thinking and progressive outlook has infused the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and come to define it. Kate Fletcher brought systems thinking to fashion – and this and the pioneering key concepts such as Earth Logic, Fashion Ecologies, ‘craft of use’ and ‘post-growth’ fashion and her role as a co-founder of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion – have fundamentally changed how fashion, textiles and sustainability is understood and also engaged thousands of people worldwide with a pioneering approach. Kate Fletcher is Research Professor of Sustainability Design & Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London.

“For more than two decades, Dr. Kate Fletcher's original thinking and progressive outlook has infused the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and come to define it.”