On 12th November, The Future Economy Network ran the first in their November “Future Focused Fashion and Textiles” series, titled “Unpicking Sustainability”. 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.
Katherine Piper, Director 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. Katherine 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, gave an introduction to the complexities of social responsibility and sustainability in the fashion and textiles sector. This helped the audience make informed decisions through consideration of key, relevant issues to adopt into thinking and ethos. The audience then split into break out groups to take part in a workshop exploring a broad range of sustainability issues, providing tools to help identify those most relevant to each person.
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.