Anna Romanovska

Fashion and Sustainability: Design Students' Knowledge and Attitudes

Sustainability, Fashion Design, and Consumerism: Entry Level Fashion Students' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Habits

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Produktbeschreibung

This work explores undergraduate students attitudes towards consumerism, fashion design, and sustainability. Romanovska uses crystallization as a methodological framework to determine how study participants knowledge corresponds to their daily habits. Data gathered through semi-structured interviews, visual exercises, journal entries, and the author s own reflections reveal four major themes: knowledge concepts linked and fragmented; dissonance between knowledge vs. attitudes and consumer habits; surrendering to unsustainable structures; and design process and caring attitude. Findings indicate participants knowledge of sustainability lacks a broad understanding of environmental and humanitarian implications of Western consumer society, and reveal a dissonance between participants knowledge and attitudes, and how reflection, creative thinking, and drawing initiate change in underlying attitudes. Recommendations are made to merge a variety of theoretical frameworks into the educational system in order to create curricula that offer a holistic overview and unique insights into sustainability challenges, particularly in specialized areas of the fashion industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 9mm
• Gewicht: 198g
• ISBN-13: 9783846518021
• ISBN-10: 3846518026
• Artikelnr.: 34212178

Autorenporträt

Anna Romanovska is a costume designer and artist. She instructs at Ryerson University¿s School of Fashion and is a PhD student at OISE, University of Toronto. Her research interests include arts informed research, adult education for sustainability, costumes as visual communicators, and the creation of visual identities.