Imagining Possibilities for Fashion Education: A Walking Conversation
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For Centre for Sustainable Fashion's (CSF) LCF Fashion Undressed: Imagining Possibilities Festival in April 2024, CSF’s head of education Nina Stevenson, and London College of Fashion (LCF) lecturer in fashion styling and production Sarah May brought their thinking and practice together to create a walking conversation to imagine what a fashion commons for education might be - a scenario for fashion education where learners develop the knowledge, skills and capabilities to be community ready.
Over the course of an April morning, a group of fashion students, tutors and practitioners gathered at LCF and together used walking as a critical practice and qualitative research methodology to explore the connection between bodies, environments and the sensory in the area local to the LCF East Bank campus.
Through these activities a community was formed, and the idea of a fashion commons for education was developed.