User:Social Alterations/Social Alterations

Social Alterations (SA) is an interdisciplinary service-based learning organization, delivering key insights into the social, cultural, environmental and economic impact (both positive and/or negative) of fashion products and systems.

Socially responsible fashion design education has the potential to transform not only the ways in which we view and understand the nature of our garments, but the entire fashion industry. We want to bridge the gap between theory and practice within existing perceptions of socially responsible fashion design education, and create systems for lasting change.

We have developed our resources with fashion and textile design educators in mind. With this wiki site we strive to:

i. create a platform for design educators to benchmark themselves against other educators not only within their own field, but across various design disciplines;

ii. crowdsource content from with the responsible fashion community.

In order to create real lasting change, academics/researchers/designers/scientists (etc.) of all disciplines must work together to foster transformation.

Our hope is that design educators will take the information they have learned here, and incorporate it into their design curriculum, to share not only with their students, but with other design faculty and instructors within their department and/or educational institution. (Social Alterations 22:49, 13 October 2010 (UTC))