The courses, developed as part of the Erasmus+ project “Re-Frame Fashion”, contain many features to be proud of. Read more about these features and students’ experiences below.
Erasmus University Rotterdam: Heritage and Fashion.
“What I liked most about the Heritage and Fashion course was the opportunity to hear perspectives from insiders and stakeholders of the fashion industry, from museum curators to digital archivists. Through the lens of fashion, I was able to learn the role digital archives play in preserving heritage, while also opening new opportunities to collaborate and challenge preconceived ideas of both concepts, especially among industry outsiders (such as students, consumers, and history enthusiasts). The case study assignment we did to solve one of four challenges faced by the European Fashion Heritage Association (EFHA), brought these interesting perspectives to light.“ - Wing So.
Dauphine Université Paris: Sustainability & Fashion behind the scenes.
“Despite a complex semester with a restriction of our activity, I was pleasantly surprised by the course that we were able to follow in a concrete way, or should I say in a ‘non-digital’ way. I really enjoyed the fact that we were able to go out on the field, something that we are not used to do in our University. Thanks to that I felt rapidly engaged in the theme, as when we started our first session at the Ecole nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs. The talk with Aurélia Wolff and our field trip in Troyes and Romilly-sur-Seine to discover Le coq sportif, have allowed us to discuss with professionals who were passionate about and experts in their work. The field trip also led us to step out of our comfort zone and become aware of what is going on behind the scenes, learning about the issues that the people who work in this sector are facing every day. We were able to realize the constraints as well as the efforts that companies have to put forward if they want to behave responsibly and ethically.” - Elena.
Gdansk University of Technology: Entrepreneurship and Creativity in Fashion.
“The project, unlike other projects, wasn’t a cliché. The assignment itself was creative, related, hands on work, realistic and time respectful. During this course I learned how to build up a business from scratch: from choosing the name and logo, gathering a team, pick how many employees I need and in which parts do they need to operate, and the financial requirements of all that. Where do we start? How we visualize and extract what’s in our mind by using mind mapping applications and software we learned all this during the course. How to look critically and find problems in particular sectors and how could we improve it and use it to our advantage in our own business. I learned where to go to start doing marketing for my product, how to make media release announcement to let people know what my product is and more importantly looking at “Why” rather than “What”, why people should buy my product and not what is my product.” - Hossein.