Professor Kate Fletcher: Fashion, Sustainability & Other Animals: Thinking and Doing Through Clothing
| Date: | Wednesday 10 Sep, 6pm - 6:40pm |
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| Location: | AUT City Campus WG Building, WG801-802-803 Auckland New Zealand |
Join research professor, author, consultant and design activist Kate Fletcher (Manchester Metropolitan University) for the free public lecture 'Fashion, Sustainability & Other Animals: Thinking and Doing Through Clothing', at Auckland University of Technology.
As a pioneer of the slow fashion movement, Fletcher’s work is rooted in nature’s principles and engaged with the cultural and creative forces of fashion and design. For more than two decades, her original thinking and progressive outlook has infused the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability with design thinking, and come to define it.
Currently a Professor of Sustainability, Design and Fashion Systems in the School of Art & Design at Manchester Metropolitan University, Fletcher brought systems thinking to fashion and pioneered key concepts such as Earth Logic, Fashion Ecologies, ‘craft of use’ and ‘post-growth’ fashion.
Kate is the one of the most cited scholars in the field of fashion and sustainability, has authored and edited books, including Routledge's International Handbook series on Sustainability and Fashion (2015), Opening Up the Wardrobe: A Methods Book (2017), Fashion and Sustainability: Design for Change (2012), and Craft of Use: Post-Growth Fashion (2016), exploring fashion opportunities beyond consumerism.