How does UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute view sustainable development? The UAL London University of the Arts has opened the eighth new school, the Social Design Institute, which aims to combine the relationship between various disciplines and assist in the expansion and practice of sustainable development and environmental protection concepts in design in many ways. The concept of sustainable design is directly put on the first sentence of the overview of the Social Design Institute. This also confirms that sustainable design has occupied a relatively dominant position since the founding of the School of Social Design. The three concepts of serving the community, society and environment mentioned later are gradually expanded and deepened, and finally face the earth's ecological environment itself. Today, we mainly use the two centers of sustainable fashion and circular design among the five features featured by the UAL School of Social Design to analyze the opinions and attitudes of UAL towards sustainable development.
Task Introduction of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
Sustainable Fashion Center (CSF)
Home page of sustainable fashion center of UAL Lunyi Social Design College
Among the keywords on the official website of the Sustainable Fashion Center, in addition to the necessary fashion, design, education and research, there are also some words that have little relevance to fashion education and are slightly abstract, such as sustainability, partnership, transformation, and ideas, speculation, hope.
From these words, we can see the practicality and foresight of setting up a sustainable fashion center in the college. Today, the problems of sustainable development are unavoidable and commonplace, London University of the Arts UAL has chosen fashion as the entry point, which has opened up a new way for environmental protection.
From the research on project cooperation experience provided on the official website, we can see that the Sustainable Fashion Center (CSF) has published its own independent views and research on a series of current events. Especially for Black Friday, a fashion promotion method that has been popular in the United States for many years, CSF can be said to be extremely critical, saying that it is "completely contrary to everything advocated by CSF".
The latest project is about the linkage and cooperation with the winners of The Kering Awards 2019 and the cooperation plan with Gucci. Gucci has provided professional help and guidance to more than 80 students of CSF this year.
Research Blog of Sustainable Fashion Center of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
In general, the Sustainable Fashion Center is like an experimental group parallel to the main research subjects of the UAL. Most of the main tutors here are researchers of fashion design related majors, as well as environmentalists. They hope to make a new change in fashion through sustainable development, and they also hope to help the popularization of sustainable development and environmental protection through fashion.
Open Day Activity of Sustainable Fashion Center of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
This is indeed a very novel perspective. Although the Sustainable Fashion Center has not been established long ago, cooperation with Waltham Forest, Zaatari refugee camp artists in Jordan and other projects is also in the ascendant. However, compared with fashion design, sustainable development is bound to be a new trend in the next decade.
It can also be seen from the foresight of the Sustainable Fashion Center. In fact, compared with the down-to-earth RCA, UAL seems to pay more attention to the development of new fields and concepts in terms of sustainable development. The same is true for the circular design of another research center.
Cyclic Design Center (CCD)
Introduction to the home page of the recycling design center of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
Unlike the sustainable fashion center, which focuses on fashion as a fixed project, the circular design center is much broader in terms of concept and perspective. However, it is worth noting that the practical research project of the circular design center is still the textile research related to fashion.
On the home page of the official website, the Cyclic Design Center emphasized their leading academic research and knowledge exchange system in the whole UAL. The Center is committed to guiding and supporting the establishment and improvement of global circular economy and circular community with practical methods.
Introduction to the home page of the recycling design center of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
In the detail page, the official of the Circular Design Center (CCD) directly pointed out that they were studying how to achieve the balance between the natural system and the number of human beings through the textile supply chain, which is a fashion economy closed-loop.
CCD is also committed to connecting academic and practical factory engineering research, which is similar to RCA. The so-called design focuses more on the design and transformation of the closed-loop in the production chain. CCD officially cited emerging technologies, system design, materials and tools, and even mentioned the concept of user behavior design and social innovation, and finally settled down to study the relationship between human and the earth.
Home page of Circular Design Center of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
Chronicle of the Center
CCD Center also knows that although it is based on the textile supply chain, circular design can do much more than textiles, and also far more than fashion. However, based on the fact that the Recycle Design Center was a textile environment design center in the early stage of its establishment, it still needs a certain amount of time and practice accumulation as the basis for real expansion and transformation.
In the chronicle of the Center, a sentence "bring past achievements into the future of circular design" also shows that CCD is not committed to the textile supply chain.
Home page of Circular Design Center of UAL Lunyi Social Design Institute
Summary of hot topics in 2019
In the summary of CCD hot topics last year, we can already see that the center has gone from a single focus on textile research, sublimation to the study of materials, and the interpretation of the macro methodology of circular design.
It is believed that in the near future, the cycle design center will be linked with more majors of the UAL to discuss how to realize the cycle based on sustainable development from the perspective of design under the general trend of economic globalization.
Therefore, from the establishment of the Social Design Institute to the landing of two research centers of sustainable fashion and circular design, they are all opening up new ideas for environmental protection. From another point of view, it can also be said to popularize environmental protection for the design profession.
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