Fashion Education: Learning and Teaching Fashion; Challenges, Chances and Co-operations Workshop

This workshop is sponsored by The American University of Paris and its Teaching and Learning Center. It is a closed event.

The field of fashion education has expanded significantly over the past years. Yet, its dimensions, practices, methods and relevance have seen little public exchange or debate. Learning and Teaching Fashion: Challenges, Chances and Co-operations is an exploratory and participatory workshop, an opportunity to reflect, develop, meet and collaborate. The following questions will guide the day:

• How do we best learn and teach fashion today and in the future?
• Which ideas of fashion, what role perceptions and job profiles do we currently hold and train for? • What should students of fashion be able to do, what should they know, experience and be?
• What are relevant outcomes, contents and methods in learning and teaching fashion?
• What role do fashion educators play in a constantly changing field?
• What are the relevant and responsible teaching philosophies, missions and profiles?
• How can we create a constructive understanding and interplay between practice and theory?

Aims

• reflection and formulation of key questions about fashion education: contents and contexts, changes and challenges, learning and teaching methods, futures
• sketching transformations concerning fashion, education, and the relevant global context
• reflection on individual teaching philosophy and methodical practice
• exchange of innovative teaching methods  
• peer exchange and network of fashion educators
• planning of future co-operations, professional development and network initiatives

methods

• peer-to-peer-workshop, moderated peer exchange
• open space & Horizon-Scanning
• inputs, brainstorming, reflection, discussions
• network meeting
• individual & group work

facilitators

• Renate Stauss, PhD, Assistant Professor for Fashion Studies, Department of Global Communications, The American University of Paris, France
• Franziska Schreiber, professor for fashion design, Berlin University of the Arts, Germany

Participation by invitation only. Contact: rstaussaup.edu