Post Growth (?) Fashion Futures
There is a major gap between the world of academic research on fashion - and that of policy and business working in this area. Many important findings are hidden behind academic publishing paywalls and researchers’ voice is often missing from policy debates.
To change this, Post Growth Fashion Agency is launching a series of monthly webinars, conversations between Katia Dayan Vladimirova and the top research voices in the field of sustainable fashion. We ask simple questions:
What are the most important findings in research in your area?
What do you think about the future of fashion - and post growth in it?
Logistics
The webinars take place online once or twice a month on Friday afternoons (Geneva time). They are free to attend, all you need is to RSVP to get a calendar invite and the link. All webinars are also recorded and recordings are made available on our Substack channel to paid subscribers (symbolic subscription price $6 per month - the subscription could also be expenced as an educational resource with your organisation or institution).
Upcoming webinars
13-DEC-2024 Prof. Ingun Klepp, Professor at the National Institute for Consumer Research, and Tone Tobiasson, Author and journalist, from Oslo, Norway
One of the most passionate and influential tandems in the textile research / policy space, with a long track record of pioneering research projects that changed our understanding of the use phase of garments, post consumer textile flows and plastification of fashion.
16-JAN-2025 Prof. Kate Fletcher, Professor at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK and Oslo Metropolitan University in Norway
Kate Fletcher is one of the most renown sustainable fashion researchers. Her work, including that on systems change, post-growth fashion, fashion localism, decentring durability, Earth Logic and nature relations both defines and challenges the field of fashion, textiles and sustainability. She has written and/or edited 13 books available in eight languages, and in 2022 she was identified by author Margaret Atwood as a visionary. Kate is a co-founder of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion. Her most recent work is about design, clothing and nature.
06-FEB-2025 Prof. Dilys Williams, Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, University of the Arts London
Professor Dilys Williams is founder and Director of Centre for Sustainable Fashion, a University of the Arts London Research Centre, based at London College of Fashion, exploring fashion as sustainability in action with researchers and businesses across the world. Dilys is also chair of UAL’s Social Purpose Advisory Group, re-purposing the university in the context of our times.
14-MAR-2025 Dr. Hakan Karaosman, Associate Professor, Cardiff University
Dr. Hakan Karaosman is an internationally experienced and award-winning scientific researcher focusing on fashion supply chains at the nexus of climate change and social justice. He is Associate Professor at Cardiff Business School, Chief Scientist at FReSCH (Fashion's Responsible Supply Chain Hub, an UN-recognised and EU-awarded action research project hosted by University College Dublin and Cardiff University), Visiting Scholar at University College Dublin and Politecnico di Milano and Chair of Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (UCRF).
Join us to learn more about ongoing research and how it could be translated into policies and action!
Past webinars - recordings
Simply click on the flyer below to be directed to the recording of the webinar on PostGrowthFashion.Substack.Com.
