Online Resources / Educational Toolkits

The ASOS Circular Design Guidebook is a 112-page long interactive resource to drive innovation in circular design and production, co-authored by ASOS and Centre for Sustainable Fashion.

Fashion Futures 2030 is an online toolkit designed to help educators, industry professionals and students engage in critical thought and discourse of fashion and nature through the exploration of four possible future scenarios. 

Fashion Values is an educational programme ideated and developed by Centre for Sustainable Fashion (CSF), UAL, in partnership with Kering, IBM and Vogue Business.

Explore the global fashion economy and sustainability, creating a plan for fashion that nurtures wellbeing for people and nature – a free online course as part of the Fashion Values programme.

Understand biodiversity in the context of fashion and create a plan for fashion that protects Earth’s ecosystems – a free online course as part of the Fashion Values programme.

Examine the relationship between fashion and society, using activism to challenge social injustice – a free online course as part of the Fashion Values programme.

An introduction to sustainable fashion design, research and business practice – a free online course, supported by luxury fashion group Kering.

FashionSEEDS offers a set of tools and resources to help us consider what to teach, how to teach, and how far we can change or transform our teaching through the discipline of Fashion Design for Sustainability.

An open access repository for FSP project outcomes and impact; with blog posts, recordings of events, case studies and access to download the guidebook.

If you would like to create your own community for exploring the teaching and learning of fashion in a more than human world and nurture ‘community ready’ learners, we invite you to use these resources. 

Interwoven, a report created by the 2023 Next Gen Assembly cohort, is for students curious to learn more about sustainable fashion; creatives looking to co-create solutions for an industry in crisis; and commercial leaders eager to work with the next generation.

Visual artist and researcher Professor Lucy Orta has created a series of ‘Lifeline. ‘Lifeline’ are unfinished objects crafted in soft calico; a fabric traditionally used to make toiles, or prototype garments that can be used as open-ended conversational prompts. 

The aim of the method is to produce innovative product service system concepts that take stock of current and future contexts for design.

Shifting Narratives responds to the diverse needs and aspirations of refugee communities, whilst valuing and sustaining their cultural heritages. 

The Lost Species Handbook: from the everyday to the extraordinary. An illustrated guide by artist Prof. Lucy Orta with texts by historian Sophie Page.

From the everyday to the extraordinary. Designed by Lucy Orta, a hands-on resource kit containing life-size pattern templates for creating masks of new and extraordinary creatures.

Introducing the Wellbeing Spiral Playbook, a resource created by the 2024 Next Gen Assembly cohort. Centred on the theme of ‘Economies of Wellbeing’, it explores alternative models and diverse economic values within the fashion ecosystem.

The Sustainable Fashion Glossary is a reference tool to help usher in a new era of understanding of fashion, based on a respect for and valuing of the earth and all who live within it.

The activity book describes the methods employed for community engagement structured across a seven-week program with practical examples and activity sheets. It is designed for participants with varied textile abilities.