What are the environmental ramifications of our design decisions, and how can we mitigate or leapfrog them through our ideas? What is the role of design in the current ecological crisis? Students will review the ecological crisis and how fashion/textiles contribute to this state of affairs. Interdisciplinary eco philosophies and methodologies will be reviewed, and students will be encouraged to use their skills as designers to develop creative solutions to technical challenges in moving the fashion industry towards sustainability. The content of the class will be explored through a series of lectures and class exercises, in which students have the opportunity to test sustainability methodologies and tools for themselves. Class time is structured around class exercises and lectures, relevant field trips, guest speakers and videos. A reader is provided.Science and Math (SCIMA) courses develop students' capacity for evidence-based reasoning through the study of life, earth, and physical sciences and of computational and theoretical mathematics. In these courses, students learn to recognize and interpret meaningful patterns of information; to assess the validity of empirical claims, distinguishing between opinion and fact; and to understand the sociocultural relevance of scientific and mathematical thinking.

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