The FashionSEEDS Design Canvas is a follow-on tool that supports academics leaders and practitioners teaching fashion design, in identifying their strategic priorities with a holistic understanding of Fashion Design for Sustainability and to design teaching and learning activities using the FashionSEEDS key concepts and resources.
As part of the FashionSEEDS Tutor's Toolkit and following the Course Designer, it offers an intuitive, project-based approach to mapping out and setting visions, values, goals and decisions throughout the planning process of educational curricula and to accessing the FashionSEEDS tools and library of resources.
How to use the FashionSEEDS Design Canvas
The FashionSEEDS Design Canvas is a metadesign tool (Van Onck, 1964) that offers a methodological approach based on four consecutive phases: Reflection, Conceptualisation, Design, and Synthesis that inform each other in a continuous process of knowledge enhancement in the field of Fashion Design for Sustainability.
Fig. 1: FashionSEEDS Design Canvas Interpretative Model.
The Worksheets
According to this structure, the FashionSEEDS Design Canvas is organised in two worksheets. The first one encloses Reflection, Conceptualisation, and Design phases, and aims at defining the contents through the support of the resources and tools available in the FashionSEEDS platform.
FashionSEEDS Design Canvas #1
The second worksheet, that covers Synthesis phase, aims at synthesising in a final document the syllabus and the planning of an educational curriculum developed with a holistic understanding of Fashion Design for Sustainability.
FashionSEEDS Design Canvas #2
Expected Outcomes
The main FashionSEEDS Design Canvas expected outcomes are:
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Understanding the potentiality offered by the FashionSEEDS project with respect to design, remodel, or review new holistic approaches in FDfS education;
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Experiencing the scalability, flexibility and modularity of the FashionSEEDS Tutor Toolkit in heterogeneous and interdisciplinary teaching environments in order to enrich a holistic approach to FDfS educational path.
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Experimenting with the validity the FashionSEEDS key resources and tools stored in the FashionSEEDS platform.
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