Fashion Values: Nature – Sustainable Fashion Course – FutureLearn

Understand biodiversity in the context of fashion and create a plan for fashion that protects Earths ecosystems Discover fashion practices that can protect restore and regenerate ecosystems Nature is the life force that provides us with the air water soil and minerals that sustain life on earth These elements come together in the clothes we wear This course will help you build the knowledge skills and connections to reimagine fashions practices and develop a plan to put nature first Youll join a community of fashion and sustainability thinkers and doers that have the vision skills and commitment to radically transform how we live and work through fashion Explore the impact of fashion on biodiversity and earths systems With more than one million species of plants and animals at risk of extinction our ecosystems are under stress Fashion plays a direct role in this and on this course youll identify how dominant damaging systems of fashion production and consumption can be transformed to protect natural life on our planet Use design thinking to radically rethink fashion products services and systems Very few fashion companies have biodiversity strategies but youll examine the tools and frameworks used by companies who are developing a nature-centred way of working Youll also be set a design thinking challenge asking you to develop a fashion product service or system which supports the restoration and regeneration of nature Respond to sustainability challenges with London College of Fashion This course is led by fashion and sustainability experts from Centre for Sustainable Fashion CSF at London College of Fashion LCF LCF has taught over 70000 learners from 191 countries on their FutureLearn fashion sustainability courses to date Youll benefit from the teaching of experienced fashion practitioners world-leading researchers as well as insights from fellow fashion and sustainability makers and doers from around the world Fashion and Nature Fashion Biosphere and Biodiversity Fashions Response What will we do for Nature Reflect on fashions relationship with nature and how this relates to fashion sustainability Understand natures systems that support life biosphere and explore fashion practices that could operate within the limits of natures systems Learners understand biodiversity in the context of fashion Critically examine fashion practices that can protect restore and regenerate natures systems and transform fashions relationship with nature Develop and evaluate a fashion practice that can regenerate nature