Fashion & Sustainability for Primary teachers, London College of Fashion

Fashion and Sustainability for Primary Educators and Art Coordinators.

This event is ideal for

KS2 Art Coordinators, teachers, and support staff, as well as SEND colleagues. Visual Art Educators working within a primary school environment.

What to expect

This session is for primary school teachers and practitioners working with young people who would like to incorporate sustainable fashion activities into their curriculum for young people.

Join us for an interactive session to:

• Explore several sustainable fashion activities that you can introduce to your students

• Support you to create engaging sustainable fashion and design curriculum activities

• Encourage your students to develop their speaking, listening, collaborative and imaginative skills, through participatory learning and active engagement.

• Network with other primary teachers and practitioners.

Agenda

13.00-13.15 arrive and networking

13.15-13.30 Welcome and Opportunities sharing

13.30-15.30 CPD workshop

This session will be led by Hannah Riley a sustainability-focused fashion practitioner and designer. Hannah’s practice supports young people to interrogate and reimagine fashion through play, dress-ups and speculative futuring. Her open-access educational resource ‘Fashion Recipes for the Future’ will be played and demonstrated how it can be incorporated into primary-school curriculum to enhance both the teachers and students’ understanding of fashion and sustainability.

London College of Fashion, UAL, moved to the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in 2023. 5,000 students and staff study and work in fashion and we want to make sure that all young people can explore fashion and sustainability in their curriculum, after all, every single one of us wear, consume and engage with fashion in our daily lives.

This is an East Ed event. Check out other CPD opportunities HERE

East Ed is a cross-organisational effort between the world-leading East Bank partners: BBC, UCL, UAL's London College of Fashion, V&A and Sadler's Wells. The programme also features collaborations from other incredible local partners.

Together, we link local young people and educators to the exciting institutions, universities, and sectors unique to Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, offering access to programmes exploring creative, digital, design, and careers. We aim to provide educators with professional development opportunities as well as provide a space for wider discussions around careers, well-being, and work culture.

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About Fashion Recipes for the Future

Fashion Recipes for the Future is a ‘cookbook’ (open-access toolkit) of playful ‘recipes’ (activities) for adults, children and young people to engage in alternative ways of experiencing and owning fashion. It uses creative learning methods such as play, imagination, dress-ups and speculative futuring. It is an out-of-this-world pedagogical approach towards fashion education for and as sustainability and a transformed joyful future of fashion.

The ‘recipes’ are activities designed to be led by and played with adults and young people, with varying skillsets, including educators, practitioners and families, in classroom, workshop and home settings. The project is housed on a website, designed primarily for adults to use. Each recipe comes with resources, viewed online and downloadable in both colour and black and white PDF formats.

Fashion Recipes for the Future won the Fashion Values 23/24 Challenge Emergent Award, by Centre for Sustainable Fashion - https://fashionvalues.org/voices/meet-the emergent-winner-for-this-years-fashion-values-challenge-hannah

Website: https://fashionrecipesforthefuture.com/

About the Facilitator, Hannah Lauren Riley

Hannah is a fashion and textiles practitioner and designer who explores alternative sustainability engagement, experiences and education through play, imagination and speculative futuring. She works with communities, children and people of all ages to interrogate and re-conceptualise fashion, exploring plural and diverse fashion scenarios built on joy, revitalisation, inclusion and care for all, including the more-than-human. Hannah works for the Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), as their Digital Content Officer, and is an Associate Lecturer and Visiting Practitioner at London College of Fashion (LCF), University of the Arts London (UAL). She is currently a participant in the Climate Adaptation for Creatives programme and assembly, by Black Mountains College and British Council, designed to explore the role of arts in climate and environmental action. She also works at the Southbank Centre, the largest arts centre in the UK, in Visitor Experience.

She graduated with distinction from MA Fashion Futures, LCF, UAL, and has a BA with First-Class Honours, in Fashion and Textiles Design from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS).

Website: https://www.hannahlaurenriley.com/

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