Course summary
Become a conscious changemaker in the 21st century fashion industry. Position yourself as a catalyst for environmental, social, and economic change at the vanguard of the fashion industry's sustainable transition on Falmouth’s Sustainable Fashion MA. This forward-thinking transdisciplinary master’s course empowers you to disrupt outdated systems and pioneer radical new approaches to address fashion's impacts by centring projects around planetary wellbeing at local and global scales. As an emerging changemaker, you'll develop groundbreaking design approaches. Situating your projects within community settings, you will question industry norms and reframe fashion systems through regenerative and life-centred design principles. The curriculum integrates cutting-edge concepts – Fibresheds, circular systems, degrowth economics, indigenous wisdom, the commons, biodesign, and frontier technologies. By joining our dynamic collective of visionary practitioners, you will engage with a global hub of emerging makers and thinkers committed to reimagining fashion's future. Engaging with this peer network through discussion will propel your unique perspective and creative projects to spearhead the industry's essential transition toward authentic sustainable fashion systems Why study this course at Falmouth? Lead Radical Innovation: Master regenerative design practices and circular systems thinking by understanding the complete lifecycle of fashion – from agricultural origins to end use – positioning you at the forefront of the industry's sustainable transformation. Drive Systemic Change: Develop the critical capabilities to identify leverage points within complex fashion systems, enabling you to design considered responses that catalyze meaningful transformation at both local and global scales. Become an Industry Changemaker: Cultivate the strategic vision, practical tools, and collaborative approaches needed to disrupt outdated models and lead the fashion industry toward regenerative futures centered on ecological and social wellbeing. Create Impact-Driven Solutions: Establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader by creating sustainable projects for self-identified problems, developing the skills to measure and communicate their real-world impact on both human and more-than-human systems. Join a Global Community: Connect with a global network of bold innovators and industry pioneers who will challenge, inspire, and collaborate with you to advance grand ideas and practices that redefine fashion's relationship with people and planet.
Modules
On this empowering Sustainable Fashion master's course, you’ll acquire a radical, conscious, professional and courageous sustainable fashion practice, while creating meaningful and effective connections with other fashion practitioners. Through hands-on projects and critical inquiry, you'll investigate the relationship between fashion and nature, rethinking how materials are grown, processed, designed, produced, and communicated. Redefining the fashion system through a soil-to-soil lens will enable you to prototype bold design responses that address urgent global challenges while building the strategic capabilities needed to implement real-world solutions. You will build valuable project management skills, networking approaches and techniques, and strategy development expertise, enabling you to bring clarity to complicated and demanding projects. Honing your investigative and academic research skills will enable you to ask the right questions, interrogate current industry practice and then forecast your own vision of a future sustainable fashion world. You’ll also sharpen your cultural awareness and sensitivity to global issues and events, thereby developing inclusive working practices and approaches. At the end of the sustainable fashion course, you will establish yourself as an entrepreneurial industry leader, through the creation of sustainable and collaborative solutions for a self-identified problem - either within the fashion system as a whole, or within a specific area that you are passionate about. The modules have been specifically designed to be studied in a non-linear order, with the order in which you’ll study the modules depending on when you begin the course. You will need to complete four 30-credit modules (120 credits in total), and will not complete a Major Project. Modules: Re_Imagine Re_Make Re_Wire Re_Frame As part of our process of continuous improvement, we routinely review course content to ensure that all our students benefit from a high-quality and rewarding academic experience. As such, there may be some changes made to your course which are not immediately reflected in the content displayed on our website. During your course, module content may be updated or optional modules withdrawn in order to maintain the best academic experience. Any students affected will be informed of any changes directly.
Assessment method
Assessment on sustainable fashion this course has been carefully planned to work specifically for online delivery. Assessment provides the course team with a means of offering tailored guidance alongside advice on how to progress knowledge and skills in key areas that relate to the course Learning Outcomes. The course team will identify your strengths and weaknesses as an individual and discuss them with you throughout your time on the course. As you move through the modules, you will keep an assessed critical reflective journal, for weekly reflections on learning, helping you to embed critical self-evaluation into your ideas and personal development. You will be assessed via coursework at the end of each module in the form of visual, verbal and written assignments. You will also receive regular feedback via webinars, Q&As and workshops with other students on your course.
Entry requirements
An honours degree or Level 6 equivalent qualification is desirable. However, candidates without a degree or formal qualification are still encouraged to apply. If you'd like to discuss our entry requirements, speak to an advisor.
Fees and funding
Tuition fees
No fee information has been provided for this course
Tuition fee status depends on a number of criteria and varies according to where in the UK you will study. For further guidance on the criteria for home or overseas tuition fees, please refer to the UKCISA website .
Additional fee information
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Provider information
Falmouth University
Woodlane
Falmouth
TR11 4RH