Abstract
ABSTRACT An international participatory project launched in 2020 aims to expand understandings of the possibilities for sustainable fashion by bringing people together to collaboratively outline and prototype alternative fashion worlds. As part of this initiative, affiliated activities have been introduced to the curricula of various design schools. The project offers an approach to sustainability in fashion design education that operates at a system, rather than product, level. This article examines project activities of differing durations at two institutions. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with students and tutors, it finds that participation expanded the students’ thinking about fashion, design and sustainability, generated a sense of possibility and agency, and prompted productive exploration beyond the immediate fashion context. However, some participants appeared to focus on sustainability solutions within the current system rather than questioning the status quo more deeply, indicating a need for more effective scaffolding of the speculative process.
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