Encouraging a Conscious and Considerate Approach to Design within Textiles and Fashion

Abstract

This paper presents the second part of a case study into the use of a live project brief with a fair-trade importer as a means of integrating ethical issues into the curriculum of a BA Fashion Fabrics and Accessories course. Through documenting and analysing student responses to the project the paper demonstrates that such an approach provides a unique, and in many ways successful, means of integrating ethical issues into HE level curriculums and does encourage students to become more considerate as designers.