Youth Fashion Summit 2018-2019
Projekttitel | Youth Fashion Summit 2018-2019 |
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Projekttype | Innovationsprojekter |
Frascati | Ja |
Tema | Bæredygtighed | Design | Innovation |
Teaser | Youth Fashion Summit is a sustainability education and idea generation platform for young people passionate about a sustainable world. |
Status | Afsluttet |
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- Akademi | Københavns Erhvervsakademi (KEA) |
- Kontaktperson | Tina Hjort Underviser / YFS udvikler th@kea.dk 50663212 |
Nat./Int. | Internationalt |
Projektperiode | 07. september 2017 - 28. juni 2019 |
Projektbeskrivelse | |
- Projektresumé | Political unrest, technological innovations, environmental challenges – these are some of the most pertinent drivers of our time that promise to change the future outcomes of the fashion industry. What prospects, then, can the next generation working in the industry expect? And how might they frame their own potential prospects? Does the future appear fascinating and promising, or does it rather seem scary and uncontrollable? Finally, how can the fashion industry prepare for different future scenarios? These are the overall questions that more than 100 students from a diverse range of educational backgrounds from all over the world will be asked to answer during this year’s Youth Fashion Summit (YFS) in Copenhagen, 13–15 May 2018. The questions have been framed according to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDGs) 3: Good Health and Well-Being; and Goal 5: Gender Equality. Once the students arrive in Copenhagen this May, they will become part of a three-day workshop with talks, teamwork, student presentations, and panel discussions with professionals from the fashion industry. Based on the workshop, the students will produce 8 demands, 8 fashion narratives and a 9 minute speech identifying how the fashion industry could and should prepare for the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. In the period prior to the workshop days, the students will prepare themselves on relevant topics for them to achieve a common understanding of the different topics they will work within and the framework they will be part of on 16 May when they will present their work on stage at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit (CFS). The students will prepare for this through 5 different webinars on the SDGs and on how companies work with the SDGs in practice. Apart from webinars, they will be offered podcasts and video lectures introducing them to the thematic framework of the Youth Fashion Summit inspired by the Five Capitals Model – a Framework for Sustainability developed by Jonathon Porritt. |
- Baggrund og formål | VISION The Vision of The Youth Fashion Summit is to empower the next generation of designers, communicators, and business executives to become change agents in a more sustainable fashion industry and a more sustainable world. MISSION The mission of The Youth Fashion Summit is to give the next generation of designers, communicators, and business executives a platform and tools to influence the decisions that are made today, but whose effects will mostly be felt tomorrow. OUTPUT The overall output of the Youth Fashion Summit 2018 is the identification of future scenarios and demands based on the two SDGs. The students will present these scenarios and demands to key actors in the fashion industry at the world’s leading event on sustainability in fashion, Copenhagen Fashion Summit, on May 16. The students will be on stage as the opening performance at CFS with a speech of around 10 minutes pointing out key results of their work. Later on a pre-selected group of students will participate in a hard talk on stage where they will ask a minimum of three predefined questions to the panel which is made up by the 5 strategic partners of Global Fashion Agenda (find more information on these: http://www.globalfashionagenda.com/organisation/) . Finally the YFS students will have an “exhibition” downstairs of the CFS conference room where the demands will be exhibited. How they will be exhibited will be decided on during the workshop days with assistance from YFS experts in graphics. The visual exhibition will enable participants to study the demands in more detail. The appearance at the Copenhagen Fashion Summit is an important output of the Youth Fashion Summit as it will create awareness of the students’ work, ideas and visions, however the overall key output with the YFS concerns empowering students to:
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- Aktiviteter og handling | Year 1 – 2018:
In between Year 1 and Year 2:
Year 2 – 2019:
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- Projektets Metode | The next generation of young people find themselves in the midst of two paradigms: the traditional “business as usual” thinking and a new mind-set of what it takes to drive future businesses. Teaching about a turbulent world could produce a sense of hopeless in students, which might in turn disempower them in becoming actors for change. It is therefore crucial for educators to fuel students’ passion, intentionality, and empowerment when teaching about the exciting and positive impact sustainability can have in changing the future. Sustainability is a complex field, and it takes skills and courage to push for change. However, a world of turbulence is also a world of great opportunity and excitement. Youth Fashion Summit pays tribute to positive and constructive opportunities by paving the way for the young generation and offering them a sense of agency and a voice that will be heard by big fashion brands and other relevant actors. Our pedagogical method and approach of YFS are inspired by Steven Sterling (2001, 2012) and by principles from participatory research. The YFS approach and the anticipated stipulated outputs are developed based on the understanding that we do not only educate about sustainability, we also need to work for sustainability, and we need to work for change in how we educate. In other words, we must enable the youth to work with complexity in a changing world, and we must challenge, encourage, and push them to change their way of thinking. ‘Achieving sustainable development requires a change in the way we think and act’ (UNESCO, 2012). YFS offers an explorative space for the youth to engage, discuss, and reflect on sustainability in fashion within the framework of Social, Human, Manufactured, and Natural Capital Model (Porritt, 2007, find more information in the section: “Thematic framework…”) and in relation to SDG 3 and SDG 5. The history of the SDGs and knowledge and information about sustainability in fashion have been shared with the YFS students prior to the Summit through five webinars; through a reading list covering sustainable development issues linked to the four capitals; and through five video lectures on sustainability in relation to each of the four capitals. This background material covers well the holistic approach to sustainability in fashion. The YFS students have been offered all this information prior to the Summit to provide a common knowledge base and a predefined framework, which will allow them to dive in and together create new knowledge, new possibilities, and maybe new solutions to what sustainability in fashion means and what actions the industry should take. The concepts and framework have been broadly defined to provide students with the necessary tools to complete the assignment within the limited timeframe. The main purpose of the thematic framework and educational background material is to facilitate students’ empowerment, guiding them to become competent agents of change who can work towards a more sustainable future. Further, the workshop setting promotes a highly participatory process. The fact that the YFS students arrive from many different countries and the fact that they have a diverse range of educational backgrounds will add a multinational and interdisciplinary focus to the workshop, which will strengthen the outputs of the summit. Discussing and testing their work together will help students appreciate the complexity of sustainability and the current state of affairs in fashion. Recognising that former YFS students have expressed difficulty in connecting their sustainability principles and values to their practice (Research done by Centre for Sustainable Design at YFS 2016), Year 2 of YFS will this time focus on how students can test their demands in real-life settings in connection with their own particular practice. This will hopefully begin the process of filling in the gap between principles/values and practice among the 112 students. THEMATIC FRAMEWORK: THE 4 CAPITALS Youth Fashion Summit’s theoretical framework is based on ‘The Five Capitals Model’ by British environmentalist and writer Jonathon Porritt, who is also co-founder of Forum for The Future. The model is part of his book ‘Capitalism As If The World Matters’ from 2007 and provides a basis for understanding sustainable development in terms of the economic concept of wealth creation or ‘Capital’. According to Porritt any organisation will use the five types of capital to deliver its products or services. A sustainable organisation will maintain and, where possible, enhance these stocks of capital assets, rather than deplete or degrade them. The five capitals apply at every stage of the product or service lifecycle. Therefore you could say that a product or service will be based on a combination of all the capitals – built with human knowledge and skills, natural materials and social structures, using machinery and infrastructure – as well as some kind of financial aspect. Porritt describes the Financial Capital as a underlying and transverse capital without any value itself, but is representative of the natural, human, social or manufactured capitals. So you could say that it is the sum of the other capitals. Due to this special characteristic and the movement away from profit to prosperity, we have chosen to let the Financial Capital be an implicit part of the other 4 capitals and by that supporting prosperity. Hence we will work with the 4 Capitals:
The framework provides us with a common baseline and thereby a way of understanding and approaching the full range of seemingly unrelated issues. Natural Capital It includes:
According to Porritt Natural capital is therefore the basis not only of production but of life itself. All fashion companies rely on natural capital to some degree and have a an environmental impact. And all of them consume energy and create waste. Therefore they need to be aware of the limits to their use of the natural environment, and operate within them. Ways the Natural Capital could be related to the fashion industry and SDG 3 and 5 could be: Materials, Chemicals, Certifications, Renewable resources and Circular systems. Human Capital When we look how this relates to the fashion industry and SDG 3 & 5, some of the focus points might be:
Social Capital So in terms of fashion and SDG 3 and 5, Social Capital could relate to:
Manufactured Capital
When we look how this relates to the fashion industry and SDG 3 & 5, some of the themes might be:
A video lecture covering the framework approach and one for each Capital have been developed. Workshop: 112 students will be part of Youth Fashion Summit 2018-2019. Around 28 students will work within each capital in smaller teams of around 14 people as they will work with the respective capital and SDG 3 or SDG 5. To give an example; we will have one group of around 14 people working with “Social Capital” in relation to SDG 3 and the other group with “Social Capital” and SDG 5. The same structure follows as to the three other capitals. Each team of around 14 people will work with one facilitator and one international expert. The team of 14 can also sometimes be split into smaller sub-teams of 7 people but still working with the same capital and SDG. |
- Projektets Forventede Resultater | The results of the 2018 YFS are anticipated to be:
The results of the 2019 YFS are anticipated to be:
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- Projektets Forventede Effekt | More awareness around the UN SDGs within youth More awareness around the UN SDGs within the fashion industry More actions towards creating a more sustainable fashion industry |
Tags | fashion | international | SDG | students | sustainability | UN |
Deltagere | |
- Studerende | Københavns Erhvervsakademi (KEA) (111) |
- Medarbejdere | Københavns Erhvervsakademi (KEA) Tina Hjort JensenRasmus Rahbek SimonsenGullan Strøm ChristensenJane BurchardMette MarkoMette KocmickThomas RasmussenClarissa A. BergLotte NerupJulie Lærke Sejersbøl KiellandBerit Konstante NissenPetra Ahde-DealHelene Niclasen Jeune-AllsoppTrine Bekkersgaard StarkRegitze Nehammer |
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Partnere | Danish Fashion Institute | Centre for Sustainable Fashion | Parsons New School | Central Saint Martins | Saixon University | Savannah College of Arts and Design | London College of Fashion | California College of the Arts (CCA) San Francisco | Whitecliff College of Arts and Design Parnell | AMD Academy of Fashion and Design, Germany | Pandora |
Finansiering | |
- Intern | 100% |
- Ekstern | |
Resultat | Disse sektioner bliver fyldt ud efter maj 2019, når YFS 2018-2019 er afsluttet. |
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