Be a front-runner of fashion!
Facts
Sustainable Innovation
The Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry programme offers you a new take on fashion design. The best from Chinese business development is merged with Danish design traditions in this essential and sought-after programme that combines fashion, innovation and sustainability.
Innovative fashion designers must be ready to support fashion industries and emerging businesses with a mutual understanding of sustainability, social entrepreneurship, open design and customization, new business and service and other business models of tomorrow.
The Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry programme trains you for exactly this. The programme gives you the knowledge and tools to change the traditional ways of working in the fashion industry and provide it with new, innovative workings methods.
Sustainable solutions
The fashion industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world - and with a growing world population, the industry will not “lose” its incriminating position unless the ways of production and the mindset of the industry are changed to be more sustainable.
The will and the need to change are there - but skills are scarce. The fashion industry therefore needs designers with a thorough knowledge of sustainability; designers who know how to create and implement solutions – products as well as processes – that are sustainable; socially, environmentally and commercially. This, you will be able to do with a degree in Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry.
Radical innovation
A radical change in the industry is essential. Thus, the programme trains you in radical innovation. Radical innovation means “changing the frame” and so discarding the traditional ways of doing things and creating new ways, new solutions by means of new technologies.
Collaboration with industry
Business collaboration is essential in the Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry programme. The programme combines the essence of the design and business fields, creating a bridge between them.
Both traditional fashion industries and emerging industries such as innovative SMEs - Small and Medium Sized Businesses and O2Os - Online to Offline Businesses are in the collaborative pipeline. As a student in the programme, you will learn to work closely with various types of businesses and how to use design methods to make companies more sustainable in terms of their products and how they design and produce them.
Programme content
Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry offers you an international Bachelor degree that puts you on the forefront of fashion.
The programme combines fashion design with sustainability, innovation, customization and social entrepreneurship in close collaboration with companies.
Courses include
• Business Understanding
• Co-creation
• Design Methods
• Radical innovation
• Sustainable Materials & Material Science
• Fashion Techniques & Tools
• Fashion Understanding & Fashion History
Core areas in the programme
• Sustainability
• Social Entrepreneurship
• Business Understanding
• Innovation & Open Design
• Design Thinking
• New Business and Service
Competence profile
Competence profile
With a BA in Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry, you will be able to:
• identify challenges within the fashion field and industry
• master artistic techniques and methods of the design and fashion field
• organize and manage the design process from initial idea to execution and presentation
• choose the best techniques and methods for solving a design task
• produce fashion design with a form language and aesthetic appearance at a high artistic level
• work cross disciplinary and collaborate with companies
• think outside the box and use new methods and technologies to create innovative solutions
• create and implement sustainable solutions within the fashion industry
The Bachelor degree in Radical Innovation and Sustainability in the Fashion Industry allows you to apply for the Master Programme in Fashion Design at Design School Kolding.
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