Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion (Ekstern organisation)

Beskrivelse

We, the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion, recognise that the response of the fashion sector to the intensifying ecological crisis has been – and continues to be – over-simplified, fragmented and obstructed by the growth logic of capitalist business models as they are currently realized and practiced. Further we recognize that uncritical research findings, duplication of research, reduction and misuse of scientific and technical knowledge reinforces and speeds up this over-simplified condition in the fashion industry.

The Union of Concerned Researchers proposes to:

Create an ‘activist knowledge ecology’, that is, to develop a system of knowledge about fashion sustainability purposefully geared towards fostering sustainability change; Advocate for whole systems and paradigm change, beyond current norms and business-as-usual. This includes rejecting overly-cautious economic, legislative and policy frameworks; Diversify the voices within fashion and sustainability discourse, to reflect multiple perspectives beyond the dominant business approaches presented, including but not limited to the global south and indigenous communities; Express our determined opposition to ill-advised and destructive fashion projects; Formulate visions—and corresponding research practices—that allow for the possibility of enacting new relationships between humans and Earth in the context of fashion; Take a leadership role in debating existing and new ideas and creating action around fashion-sustainability themes, especially in areas where the generation of new knowledge is of actual or potential significance; Devise means for turning research applications towards the underlying root causes of pressing environmental and social problems, including but not limited to climate change, wealth inequality, biodiversity loss, and plastic pollution; Organise, when determined desirable and feasible, fashion researchers to translate radical step change into effective political, and other, action.

Periode	2021
Sted for afholdelse	Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion, Storbritannien
Grad af anerkendelse	International