Imagine ‘The Future of Fashion’ – through LEGO…
Ravensbourne University, 6 Penrose Way, Greenwich Peninsula, London
About this Event
Join this imagination-inducing workshop and help explore some of the key questions facing fashion today and envision what a more sustainable, circular approach could be like.
Using the inventive method of LEGO®️ Serious Play®️, we will tap into creative solutions and build our thoughts and ideas, bringing new thinking into the sustainable fashion conversation.
We will dive into questions at the heart of the industry, such as;
– Responsible fashion: What are the barriers and/or enablers of sustainable fashion? Can fashion be climate friendly? And can it ever be sustainable?
– Promoting Sustainable Fashion: What should sustainable fashion marketing and promotion look like today?
– The ethics of material choices: eg: the environmental impact and ethics of natural/manmade/synthetic materials. How can we meet the highest standards of sustainable and ethical sourcing and product development?
– Tech and fashion: How might AI and other tech influence creativity, skills and fashion jobs?
– And any other questions you’re keen to explore.
Come along if you are curious about what difference it might make to have a conversation about a creative industry, creatively. Expect a wide-ranging, and different than usual conversation.
WHO IS THIS FOR?
Anyone with a specialism or interest in fashion is welcome, whether you are a maker, a wearer, a seller, an academic, a student or anyone else.
LCAW EVENTS WITH CLIMATE PLAY
This event is part of a series of events during LCAW hosted by Climate Play and exploring how the innovative method, LEGO Serious Play, can help stretch our imaginations and bring new ideas and reflections into the light. By building our answers with our hands, rather than relying on familiar conversation, what difference will this make to where we go? The method is a powerful tool to help unlock clarity, ingenuity and joining the dots on complex topics.
LEGO Serious Play is a method used in meetings and workshops to engage people, get them thinking differently and having a different conversation. Based on the use of LEGO bricks as metaphors, it is used to tell complex stories that unpack thoughts, feelings, beliefs, imagination and action plans on a range of topics and across a wide range of settings from business to government. It is a democratic approach to facilitation, where people listen and build equally, creating surprising depth and connection through simple brick-play.
Lucy Hawthorne, Founder, Climate Play and Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Professor and Course Leader MBA Fashion, Ravensbourne University
Lucy Hawthorne, Founder, Climate Play.
Lucy is a sustainability learning innovator using play to loosen up and energise how we think, talk and act on sustainability. She specialises in LEGO-based learning techniques to stir creativity and deeper engagement on hard-to-talk-about or hard-to-imagine issues within organisations and communities. At Climate Play she delivers the world's only LEGO Serious Play training specifically focused on sustainability and is building a community of trainees, Climate Players, who are taking the method into organisations and communities to catalyse climate action.
Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas, Professor and Course Leader MBA Fashion, Ravensbourne University
Professor Natascha Radclyffe-Thomas EdD FRSA is the Chair of PRME UK and Ireland Chapter and a member of the PRME Global Expert Pedagogy Group which developed the Impactful Five (i5) Playbook for Responsible Leadership. Natascha is a National Teaching Fellow and expert in sustainability named in The SustainabilityX® Magazine’s inaugural Global 50 Women In Sustainability Awards™. Natascha is Editor-in-Chief of Bloomsbury Fashion Business cases and Co Principal Editor of the International Journal of Sustainable Fashion and Textiles. Natascha is currently Professor of Marketing and Sustainable Fashion at Ravensbourne University London where she leads the Regenerative Fashion Lab as well as the MBA in Fashion Business and Entrepreneurship. Natascha sits on the UNGC UK. Natascha is a member of the United Nation's Global Compact UK's Advisory Group and contributed to their Measuring Up 2.0 report. Natascha is Vice Chair of the Costume Society and is regularly invited as a keynote speaker and panellist and contributes to media pieces on fashion business, culture and sustainability for the BBC, New York Times and NPR. Natascha is a member of the London and South East Local Network.
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