Valuing refugee and migrant voices
As we approach Refugee Week with hopes to galvanise action, CSF researchers Francesco Mazzarella, Helen Storey and Lucy Orta explore the...
top of page
Blog
Search
- Jun 2
- 3 min
Envisioning a compassionate future with refugee communities
May 2023 marked the end of the second work package of the AHRC-funded ‘Decolonising Fashion and Textiles’ project. Through this...
- May 19
- 4 min
Discussing fashion for social change with Jess Amaral
“It’s important to enable the next generation of design change-makers. We are convening co-creation spaces and it's great to give...
- Apr 21
- 3 min
Tending the Earth, gardening fashion
What would fashion look like if it developed alongside natural seasons rather than the market driven fashion calendar? Natural seasons...
- Feb 7
- 4 min
Shifting perceptions through Photo-Voice: Discovering a sense of place and community
Focused on bringing to the fore the perspectives of refugees whose voices are often underrepresented, we kickstarted the AHRC-funded...
- Jan 23
- 3 min
Stitching the future and the longing for home
“As a designer working in the humanitarian field, humility, listening and the reimagining of one’s own sense of what ‘progress’ should...
- Dec 22, 2022
- 2 min
Why fashion needs a future scenario framework – ReModelling Futures Method
Many sustainable design tools address only the concept development, or the production stages of fashion. While these approaches can offer...
- Oct 28, 2022
- 4 min
Embedding sustainability at the core of fashion practice – developing the ReModelling Futures Method
The ReModelling Futures Method was developed as a key outcome for the ReModelling Fashion project, part of the Business of Fashion,...
- Oct 24, 2022
- 2 min
Supporting the transition to sustainable fashion practices – the ReModelling Futures Method
The ReModelling Futures Framework embeds future thinking from the start of the creative and decision making process.
- Sep 21, 2022
- 5 min
Reality, Reciprocity, Resilience
With the mass displacement of people on the rise, it is clear that we need to rethink and address the needs and aspirations of refugee...
- Sep 5, 2022
- 6 min
Shifting Charges – provoking mindset change through jewellery
The fashion industry causes negative impacts on society in many ways. For example the abuse of labour rights, compromising of the health of
- Jul 6, 2022
- 3 min
Everything is interconnected; dress accordingly
‘Nature’ continues to be an inspiration for designers and brands – just look at the A/W collections for 2022. Yet despite aspirations to...
- Jun 16, 2022
- 4 min
Healing Knowledge
After six years of working together with UNHCR and the refugees of Zaatari Refugee Camp, on the Jordan/ Syria border, we have just begun...
- May 25, 2022
- 3 min
Leveraging the power of fashion activism to create positive social change
Through project ReGo, we’ve been working to leverage the power of fashion activism in shifting the prevailing narrative around young...
- Apr 22, 2022
- 2 min
The power of imagination and creativity in driving change
Human lives are intrinsically interwoven into our planet’s health, the biodiversity of the air, our land and oceans.
- Apr 8, 2022
- 3 min
Challenges facing UK’s fashion entrepreneurs as they work toward sustainable prosperity
Through research conducted as part of our Fostering Sustainable Practices (FSP) project we know UK fashion micro, small and medium...
- Oct 7, 2021
- 2 min
What kind of fashion education is needed now?
Education is the leverage point for change in societies, cultures and economies, and in a time of climate emergency, individual and...
- Jun 1, 2021
- 4 min
Another story of fashion as a contributor to cultural, social, environmental and economic prosperity
Fashion is fundamentally changing, and fashion designers are becoming less affiliated with the conventional fashion industry than ever...
- May 4, 2021
- 4 min
The importance of networks for MSEs
As we emerge from lockdown, there is an increasing desire within society to have physical human contact again, we have collectively...
- Apr 23, 2021
- 3 min
We must continue to be shocked and outraged by the violence of fashion
Within the week falls Earth Day, Stephen Lawrence Day and 8 year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse. In this week too a vital gu
bottom of page