
Sustainable Fashion MA (Online)
Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry.
Course overview
Position yourself as a catalyst for environmental, social, and economic change at the vanguard of the fashion industry's sustainable transition on Falmouth’s Sustainable Fashion MA. This forward-thinking transdisciplinary master’s course empowers you to disrupt outdated systems and pioneer radical new approaches to address fashion's impacts by centring projects around planetary wellbeing at local and global scales.
As an emerging changemaker, you'll develop groundbreaking design approaches. Situating your projects within community settings, you will question industry norms and reframe fashion systems through regenerative and life-centred design principles. The curriculum integrates cutting-edge concepts – Fibresheds, circular systems, degrowth economics, indigenous wisdom, the commons, biodesign, and frontier technologies.
By joining our dynamic collective of visionary practitioners, you will engage with a global hub of emerging makers and thinkers committed to reimagining fashion's future. Engaging with this peer network through discussion will propel your unique perspective and creative projects to spearhead the industry's essential transition toward authentic sustainable fashion systems
Why study this course at Falmouth?
- Lead Radical Innovation: Master regenerative design practices and circular systems thinking by understanding the complete lifecycle of fashion – from agricultural origins to end use – positioning you at the forefront of the industry's sustainable transformation.
- Drive Systemic Change: Develop the critical capabilities to identify leverage points within complex fashion systems, enabling you to design considered responses that catalyze meaningful transformation at both local and global scales.
- Become an Industry Changemaker: Cultivate the strategic vision, practical tools, and collaborative approaches needed to disrupt outdated models and lead the fashion industry toward regenerative futures centered on ecological and social wellbeing.
- Create Impact-Driven Solutions: Establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader by creating sustainable projects for self-identified problems, developing the skills to measure and communicate their real-world impact on both human and more-than-human systems.
- Join a Global Community: Connect with a global network of bold innovators and industry pioneers who will challenge, inspire, and collaborate with you to advance grand ideas and practices that redefine fashion's relationship with people and planet.
Start dates: January / May / September
(Three intakes per year)
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