MA Fashion Futures

Fashion Futures explores the nature and purpose of design in a rapidly changing world, building a generation of practitioners who are adaptable, experimental, eco-literate and culturally sensitive. The course places sustainability at the heart of fashion practice, touching on social, environmental, and technological agendas, whilst offering the freedom to create speculate and imagine paths to a better future.

In this ground breaking course, you are encouraged to explore and develop speculative fashion practice and theoretical perspectives in parallel. You will identify new territories for fashion and work in new spaces to communicate ideas in relation to design for sustainability where digital design applications, the interplay of hard and soft sciences, design futuring, fashion design theory, fashion thinking, meta design, ethics, politics, psychology and anthropology are considered.

You will examine a diverse range of methodologies and technologies, including film, audio, digital and online platforms, garment prototyping, publishing, events and performance. Critical fashion practice and reflexive thinking to test, reframe and make responses to existing paradigms, is key to MA Fashion Futures. This will enable you to develop a very personal response to, and a critique of, the current paradigm and the role and activities of fashion.

"I had a lot of freedom in this course. It was a good mix of fashion design blended with innovative thinking, conceptual speculations and technology/science – it was an energetic experience! The highlight was the introduction to speculative design in fashion, specifically around our bodies. It really opened my eyes to more possibilities and ways which we can challenge accepted norms in fashion design. We identify current problems and then let our minds run wild as to what the world would look like if the problems persisted, and how we would design for the identities in such a context. The biggest challenge is the opposite – not getting distracted by all the ideas! There’s so many options so it’s about choosing the best one to focus on." - Fiona Fung, MA Fashion Futures Alumni

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