Monday 7 December 2009

Fast Fashion & Co-Design: Working Together


I designed and facilitated a workshop last Friday for MA Textile students at Chelsea College of Art & Design. The workshop was part of a piece I am working on for TED'S Ever & Again publication on upcycling textiles. It is an outcome of an AHRC funded research project directed by Rebecca Earley .


The workshop was titled Fast Fashion & Co-Design: working together


I used co-design to "orchestrate creative conversations" a term coined by Leadbeater (2009) to inspire collaborative concepts. We borrowed IDEO 's 3 core concept of design thinking to structure the workshop... It was divided into 3 sections... empathy, prototyping and storytelling.


I really enjoyed working with the students to explore these concepts and they presented some really interesting ideas and exciting solutions.

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