Technology innovations and improved environmental, social and ethical practices will fundamentally change how clothes are made, consumed and experienced. To support the development of sustainable solutions for the fashion industry, capabilities in technology and sustainability need to be developed and combined with traditional fashion and textile craft-based knowledge and skills.
The Bachelor of Fashion and Textiles (Sustainable Innovation) provides you with the capability to work in diverse roles across the fashion and textiles sector with these principles in mind. You will gain practical, theoretical and technical skills to develop solutions, products and systems, using user-centred approaches at the intersection of design, technology, science, and art. In this cutting-edge degree, you will delve into sustainability as a concept and goal within fashion and textiles.You will explore industry-relevant knowledge and projects, ethical and sustainable practices, and material and digital technologies. You will also have the opportunity to minor in either fashion design, textile design, or fashion enterprise.
As part of your studies, you will collaborate with industry and community partners in a range of activities, including partnered projects, placements, virtual studios and case studies to ensure you are immersed in current industry professional practices, techniques and strategies. You will work closely with industry across areas of materials innovation, waste solutions, and digital design, expanding on current partnered projects such as Australian Wool Innovation (AWI), Bruck Textiles, and Melbourne & Olympic Parks. We have regular consultations with our Industry Advisory Groups which consist of high-profile industry representatives. Part of these consultations is to ensure that our links with industry standards and practices remain current.
Graduates may find careers across this diverse and rapidly transforming industry, in areas related to clothing production, sportswear, protective clothing, research and innovation, sustainability, and technical textiles, as well as in aligned industries, such as the health and automotive industries.
