On 19th November, The Future Economy Network ran the second in their November “Future Focused Fashion and Textiles” series, titled “Building a Socially Responsible Ethos”. The event was in collaboration with University of the Arts London, a world Top 2 university for art and design. You can watch the full recording here.
The event was attended by a wide range of businesses, consumers and students over an evening, and attendees enjoyed some pre-seminar networking in small break out groups before the event began.
Tatum Hodgkinson, Memberships and Communications Manager of The Future Economy Network, welcomed attendees, highlighting the benefits of joining the Network and also sharing updates about The Future Economy Network’s Carbon Neutral Hub in Bristol, Future Leap. Tatum also briefly ran through the plans for The Festival of Sustainable Business.
Jane Murrow, Course Leader of MA Textile Design at University of the Arts London, spoke on establishing your own socially-responsible & sustainability principles and exploring how to apply these to define your business, brand or personal ethos to develop informed strategies and goals.
She then ran a post-talk workshop which focussed on considering the issues relevant to you in relation to each other, to help you define and rank your key priorities for developing robust strategies for effecting positive, impactful change.
After the workshop, delegates returned to the main screen to take part in some Q&A and some fun optional homework for the next workshop in the series.
Everyone was then able to network in different groups using facilitated break out rooms, before the event finished. A huge thank you to the speakers, attendees and partners University of the Arts London for this event, without which our events calendar would not be possible.
