Examining climate change and fast fashion.pdf

In this research project, we interrogate fast fashion in the 21st
century in the context of a changing climate, by assessing emergent
trends in sustainable fashion as an alternative consumption pathway
through the annual ‘Trash the Runway’ event in Boulder, Colorado. We
interviewed and surveyed designers and analyzed workshops and activities
that led up to their annual fashion show. We also surveyed and
interviewed students at the University of Colorado Boulder who worked
with designers to produce short films about them and their work. The
project provides youth – who are often marginalized in decision-making
processes – a literal stage to suggest policy and behavior changes to
address climate change and sustainability. We found that designers
expressed reticence before the workshops and events to speak about
climate change in everyday life, yet their design work creatively spoke
powerfully for them, and they expressed less discomfort after the
experience while they advanced their skillset as climate communicators.
Moreover, we found that both designers and student partners reported
that they think climate change will impact people greatly in the future,
yet fewer respondents reported that climate change impacts them
personally. While engagement with sustainable fashion helps to
de-fetishize production processes and link consumption habits with
awareness of climate and environmental change, more creative work should
be done through fast- and sustainable-fashion to draw out
temporal considerations of climate change threats here and now.This poster was presented at the 2021 Earth Science Information Partners (ESIP) Summer Meeting held virtually in July 2021.

在本项研究项目中，我们以气候变化为背景，探讨21世纪快速时尚的发展，通过评估可持续时尚作为替代消费途径的崭新趋势，在科罗拉多州博尔德市的年度‘淘汰秀’活动中进行深入剖析。我们对设计师进行了访谈和问卷调查，并分析了导致他们年度时装秀的前期研讨班和活动。此外，我们还对科罗拉多大学博尔德分校的学生进行了调查和访谈，他们与设计师合作制作了关于他们及其工作的短片。该项目为常被边缘化的青年群体提供了一个实际的舞台，让他们提出关于应对气候变化和可持续发展的政策及行为改变建议。我们发现，设计师在研讨班和活动前对在日常生活中谈论气候变化表现出一定的犹豫，但他们的设计作品却以富有创意的方式有力地为他们发声，并在提升气候变化传播技能的过程中，他们表达出的不适感有所减轻。此外，我们还发现，设计师和学生合作伙伴均表示他们认为气候变化将在未来对人类产生重大影响，然而，报告称气候变化对其个人影响较少。虽然参与可持续时尚有助于去神秘化生产过程并将消费习惯与对气候和环境变化的认知联系起来，但仍需通过快速时尚与可持续时尚的更多创新工作，以凸显气候变化威胁的即时时间考量。本海报于2021年7月举办的2021年地球科学信息合作伙伴（ESIP）夏季会议中展出，该会议以虚拟形式进行。