ME YOU US – building digital 3D competences in fashion education for diversity, inclusion, and a green transition

<< Objectives >>Me-You-Us brings together 3 fashion and textile design academies and a number of fashion industry stakeholders to develop a shared curriculum for digital design and prototyping. The curriculum will bolster the partners' capacity for digital competences, which are much sought after in the fashion industry. It will also contribute to a green transition in the fashion industry, which lacks young designers with digital, sustainable skills.<< Implementation >>Fashion design students are tomorrow's fashion designers. The practices their education teach them stay with them as they make their careers. By implementing a new, shared curriculum we teach the new generation of designers valuable digital futures skills that are also highly sustainable compared to traditional fashion design methods, which are wasteful at best. In this manner we also work towards effecting a green transition in the very unsustainable fashion industry.<< Results >>The partnership's students and staff will learn crucial modern digital skills which are highly sought after in the industry which employs most of our students after they graduate. By feeding into this natural 'supply line' of talent from design academies to fashion and textile enterprises, we build our institutional capacities, make our students more employable and contribute towards implementing green practices in the fashion industry.