FDL 850

This course develops students’ competencies to create innovative fashion projects and ventures that have a positive social impact on local and global communities. Students explore disruptive capitalist frameworks and business models as well as strategies to uncover social problems and develop solutions, including co-design and the double half methodology. Particular focus is placed on the power of fashion to foster social change. Assessment comprises of individual and group projects, including the development of an original social project or venture that uses fashion to help solve a societal problem. Lecture format.