Fair Fashion

Students will work on the issues facing the fashion industry and ...

• ... How our buying behavior is linked to ecological degradation in the Third World
• ... How our buying behavior is linked to unfair wages in the Third World
• ... How the fashion industry hires child workers
• ... students will see some facts/numbers about our insatiable and useless consumption of clothes
• ...we'll see what alternatives there are to avoid ecological destruction and social injustice.

Inspired by our projects, we'll start this workshop with a true story told by one of our NGO partners.

In a 2^e phase we're going to compare conventional clothing production with that of one of our Fairtrade products. Younger students will do this activity with a series of images. Older students are also involved in a role-play where they have to prepare arguments for/against fast fashion (depending on their group).

We'll end the workshop by looking at how our behavior affects people in the South, and how we can improve the situation for everyone.

Each workshop consists of a theoretical part where we work together to summarize the problem. This is followed by a more active part, which changes according to the age of the students. For younger students, we might prepare a series of images to comment on, or educational games. For older students, we offer text/video analysis, role-playing or positioning games.

Our approach is to provide students with enough information to discover the conclusion themselves. After a moment of realization/study, they structure what they have learned. The aim is to bring about a change in thinking/behavior so that they become active players in our society.

We can adapt the content of our workshop to the level or pre-knowledge of your students. Our workshops are designed for students aged 10+, but can be adapted for younger students. We could also include your wishes regarding the content (if you'd like us to talk about a certain country, for example, or just one aspect of the issue).