Online Resources / Educational Toolkits

Shifting Narratives responds to the diverse needs and aspirations of refugee communities, whilst valuing and sustaining their cultural heritages. 

The activity book describes the methods employed for community engagement structured across a seven-week program with practical examples and activity sheets. It is designed for participants with varied textile abilities.

If you would like to create your own community for exploring the teaching and learning of fashion in a more than human world and nurture ‘community ready’ learners, we invite you to use these resources. 

Visual artist and researcher Professor Lucy Orta has created a series of ‘Lifeline. ‘Lifeline’ are unfinished objects crafted in soft calico; a fabric traditionally used to make toiles, or prototype garments that can be used as open-ended conversational prompts. 

The Sustainable Fashion Glossary is a reference tool to help usher in a new era of understanding of fashion, based on a respect for and valuing of the earth and all who live within it.

Examine the relationship between fashion and society, using activism to challenge social injustice – a free online course as part of the Fashion Values programme.

The ASOS Circular Design Guidebook is a 112-page long interactive resource to drive innovation in circular design and production, co-authored by ASOS and Centre for Sustainable Fashion.

FashionSEEDS offers a set of tools and resources to help us consider what to teach, how to teach, and how far we can change or transform our teaching through the discipline of Fashion Design for Sustainability.

From the everyday to the extraordinary. Designed by Lucy Orta, a hands-on resource kit containing life-size pattern templates for creating masks of new and extraordinary creatures.

The Lost Species Handbook: from the everyday to the extraordinary. An illustrated guide by artist Prof. Lucy Orta with texts by historian Sophie Page.

Explore the global fashion economy and sustainability, creating a plan for fashion that nurtures wellbeing for people and nature – a free online course as part of the Fashion Values programme.

Fashion Values is an educational programme ideated and developed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), UAL, in partnership with Kering, IBM and Vogue Business.