Sustainable Fashion (Online) PgDip (Initial Qualification)

Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry. <br/><br/>Gain the knowledge and skills to design the pioneering, regenerative transformation needed to address the complex environmental, social, cultural and economic challenges we face throughout the fashion system. <br/><br/>Joining a global community of likeminded practitioners, you will develop your understanding of fashion systems around the world. With a focus on planet-centred design, you’ll question the purpose of design, envision new paradigms for fashion, create scenarios of a sustainable future and develop effective systems. You’ll also assess the impact of social innovations within fashion communities, learning how to apply a conscious mindset to deliver positive, responsible practice.<br/><br/>Why study this course at Falmouth?<br/>• Graduate as a pioneering and entrepreneurial fashion practitioner, ready to question and reframe the challenges of the sector and empowered to lead and reform the industry <br/>• Use creative approaches to find strategic solutions to complex systems challenges across design, production and business functions <br/>• Build valuable project management skills and networking techniques, creating meaningful and effective connections with other fashion practitioners <br/>• Hone your investigative and academic research abilities, developing a conscious practice that filters decision-making through a sustainable and ethical lens<br/><br/>On this empowering Sustainable Fashion masters course, you’ll acquire a radical, conscious, professional and courageous sustainable fashion practice, while creating meaningful and effective connections with other fashion practitioners. <br/><br/>You’ll build your knowledge throughout the course, starting with an understanding of the fundamental sustainable themes in the fashion sector and the problems facing the industry.   <br/><br/>Developing advanced knowledge of systems and design thinking will allow you to build a transformative toolbox of creative skills to question and reframe the challenges of the sector, and test and prototype responsible design interventions. <br/><br/>Throughout the Sustainable Fashion masters you will build valuable project management skills, networking approaches and techniques, and strategy development expertise, enabling you to bring clarity to complicated and demanding projects. <br/><br/>Honing your investigative and academic research skills will enable you to ask the right questions, interrogate current industry practice and then forecast your own vision of a future sustainable fashion world. You’ll also sharpen your cultural awareness and sensitivity to global issues and events, thereby developing inclusive working practices and approaches. <br/><br/>At the end of the sustainable fashion course, you will establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader, through the creation of sustainable and collaborative solutions for a self-identified problem - either within the fashion system as a whole, or within a specific area that you are passionate about.