Assistant Professor and Assistant Chair for the Fashion department, Kim Guthrie, will be speaking at Cumulus Mumbai 2015 later this week. The international event is aimed at creating design awareness on sustainability bringing focus on water and simultaneously offering a platform for interaction among the art, design and media community. Guthrie’s talk is part of the fashion design track of programming and will focus on the following:
The diverse set of risks and opportunities that now confront the textile and apparel industries and emerging fashion designers make examining the environmental impacts in design a necessary consideration. Bringing sustainability into the ethos of design is required since 80 percent of a product’s environmental costs are decided in design. The manufacturing of clothing and textiles is the second most polluting global industry. As much as 20 percent of global industrial water pollution comes from the treatment and dyeing of textiles. When water scarcity and water depletion are the inspiration for a young fashion designer, it confirms that a paradigm shift has finally started to happen. Designers need to understand the ramifications and consequences of every choice they make in the design process.
The event Cumulus Mumbai 2015: ‘In a planet of our own’ is being held at Mumbai, India and is hosted by the Industrial Design Centre (IDC), at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Bombay, Mumbai. Cumulus is a non-profit organization and network for institutions of art, design and media. It is the only global forum for partnership, friendship and sharing knowledge aimed at enhancing the education and research of art, design and media.
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