Circular Design Challenge

CIRCULAR DESIGN CHALLENGE: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH TO SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN STEAD DISCIPLINES: The Circular Design Challenge Project details a collaboration between CVAD’s Fashion Design Program and SMU’s Dedman College of Science. This inter-institutional study interrogates some of the misconceptions often applied to sustainable development through the lens of an interdisciplinary STEAD-based (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Design) Circular Design Challenge. Students were tasked with participating in a collaborative learning project which explores the limitations of sustainability education at the university level by incorporating various modes of critical making, sustainable development, and circular design processes. These strategies were used to prompt discussion on the conflicting pressures between equitable development, the environment, and climate change, in the apparel industry. This project aims to encourage the adoption of personal habits geared toward sustainable living and proliferate education regarding the potential negative implications of apparel development and consumption.

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