Transformative Fashion Pedagogies

Transformative Fashion Pedagogies responds to recent calls to action (see Timmo, 2017; Barry, 2021; Cheang, 2020 and Stevenson, 2022) for educators to radically rethink the role of fashion education in relation to industry and wider debates around positionality, power and social and climate justice. While the fashion industry continues along a damaging path of exploitative environmental and social practices, there is a renewed pressure on fashion education to challenge the status quo and equip a new generation of students with the practical and intellectual skills to create lasting change.

This symposium offers an intimate and supportive space for fashion educators from London College of Fashion and Parsons School of Fashion to share the progressive and inclusive pedagogies we are implementing in our courses and institutions across business, product, design, textiles, media, concept, history and theory. The symposium will foreground fashion pedagogy as critical research, asserting the interconnectedness of research, teaching and industry and/or community organizations and the role we play as educators in enacting impactful social and political change with our students.