GREEN WEEK
Each year the University supports Green Week where we showcase, celebrate and challenge the University's efforts to address issues around sustainability.
"There is no point in trying to change the landscape of the current "fast-fashion" industry by just developing sustainable products. If we do not manage to market these products effectively and replace the consumption of the conventional ones, we only create more waste".
- MA Fashion and the Environment
Antarctic Village is a symbol of the plight of those struggling to transverse borders and to gain the freedom of movement necessary to escape political and social conflict.
- Professor of Art, Fashion and the Environment
"Using the language games of retail, industry and post-minimalist art, my work invites viewers to take away for free objects that are unwieldy and of questionable value. Playing on those mechanisms of social and economic control which are ordinarily overlooked, and yet always successful, my work draws attention to the possibility and impossibility of choice within a market-driven world".
- BA (Hons) Fine Art
"Francesca's work aims to tackle the amount of unused textile waste being sent to landfill, much of which is the result of unsuccessful fast fashion. Her work demonstrates that the materials currently used in the fast fashion industry are hardwearing enough to be regenerated up to 4 times with no loss of quality to the fabric."
- MA Textile Futures
"This is our call to creative arms. We are exploring the power of shared ideas. We all have a duty to use our talents, our imaginations and our rigour to create a healthier planet."
Helen Storey
- MBE, Professor of Fashion and Science, Co Director Centre for Fashion/Science
"Design should be about more than a fast, throw-away fashion fix. If it is conscientious and intelligent, design can be a powerful tool for change".
- MA Fashion and the Environment
"Think Creative, Not Conformist
Think Green; Not Greenwashing
Think Sustainable; Not Superficial"
- BA Graphic and Media Design - Design for Advertising