Not one but many
Decentering design and sustainability and why it matters
In her talk, Kate Fletcher will examine the approach and findings of a recent research project ‘Decentring Durability: Plural Ideas and Actions of Long Lasting Clothes’. She will explore what it tells us about the production of knowledge in design and sustainability and the challenges for doing research differently at the powerful intersection of the decolonising and decarbonising agendas.
The online lecture is held on Wednesday 15 December from 15.00-16.00. Join on Zoom
About Dr. Kate Fletcher
Kate Fletcher’s work is both rooted in nature’s principles and engaged with the cultural and creative forces of fashion and design. For more than two decades, her original thinking and progressive outlook has infused the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and come to define it. Kate Fletcher brought systems thinking to fashion – and this and the pioneering key concepts such as Earth Logic, Fashion Ecologies, ‘craft of use’ and ‘post-growth’ fashion and her role as a co-founder of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion – have fundamentally changed how fashion, textiles and sustainability is understood and also engaged thousands of people worldwide with a pioneering approach. Kate Fletcher is Research Professor of Sustainability Design & Fashion at the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London.
