Style could be a highly effective medium for the exploration, illustration and amplification of voices and cultures from around the globe. Nevertheless, trend can paradoxically be answerable for the silencing, shaming and marginalising of particular person and collective narratives. By way of Style Values: Cultures, the fourth and ultimate Style Values four-week open-access course, learners nurture tales of the ingenuity and creativity of trend in its many cultural kinds.
“We discover storytelling as a way to contribute to equitable, inclusive and various cultures in and thru trend.”
A spread of worldwide specialists introduce an exploration of cultural practices that nurture a pluralistic perspective, the place trend has many roles and meanings in on a regular basis lives. Learners are inspired to rethink the connection between trend and sustainability, exploring how storytelling can have fun trend’s range and transfer past the consumption-led trend mannequin.
Style Values: Cultures makes use of components of design pondering to craft world-relevant expertise to know the massive challenges dealing with the style system in a cultural context. The course acts as a basis to develop visions for the way forward for trend, placing planetary and human well being and wellbeing first, reflecting the range of trend cultures that may and do exist.
The course was developed by Centre for Sustainable Style’s training staff – Prof Dilys Williams, Nina Stevenson, Liz Parker, Anna Fitzpatrick, Lou Budd, and Andreea-Diana Stan. Contributing specialists embody Wilson Oryema, Caroline Stevenson, Dr Otto von Busch, Pak Chiu, and plenty of others.
“Style is an exploration of what’s related to time, place, and folks inside a wider planetary context. There’s by no means been a extra vital function for trend than in our present occasions. It may be each joyful as an expression of who we’re, a contributor to livelihoods, cultures, societies, and economies. It is usually a destroyer of dignity, lives, cultures, and the one true economic system, nature’s wealth, which is the one supply for all of our prosperity. These programs are right here to ask you to think about what you worth and to have a look at what sort of trend system you wish to be a part of.”
– Prof Dilys Williams, Centre for Sustainable Style
The Style Values programs are self-paced (with simply three hours of weekly examine steered) and run repeatedly, so learners can be a part of at any time. These programs are appropriate for all ranges – together with undergraduate and postgraduate college students, enterprise professionals, designers and communicators.
