TRANSITIONS - TRANSITION DESIGN EDUCATION FOR FASHION AND TEXTILES SECTORS. Boosting the transition of the textile and fashion sectors towards a circular economy by Design and Lean methods and processes.

TRANSITIONS is a strategic alliance for innovation formed by research and technological centres, VET, HE institutions, public policy actors, SMEs and other sectoral organizations from Spain, Italy, Netherland and Sweden to nurture the textile and fashion transition to a 4.0 system and a circular economy by developing new learning methods, tools and practices to help students, young designers and professionals, to face real challenges. Fashion and textiles (F&T) are the second most polluting industry in the world. The F&T sectors face structural and systemic challenges that require a profound model change. The project addresses the core of the value chain and the future of the new fashion system change. Stakeholders will work together to design and develop new training methods to face the digital and green transformation. The objective is to create a collaborative and real work-based training where the different actors in the value chain work on how to take advantage of technology to generate new value proposals and new business models within a circular economy.TRANSITIONS will:- Create a modular training programme based on Industry 4.0 for a T&F new circular system. - Set up innovation-focused training modules based on real practice and challenges (Transition Labs) to skill, reskill and upskill students and professionals - Developing new ways to generate innovation in textile and design processes, production and commercialization. Our target audience are Product, F&T design students, young designers; fashion startups; SMEs professionals from design and management of creative industries; teachers and researchers in F&T design. All the specialists in design and development training of the SMEs F&T sectors. Makers and territorial agents of change.Methodology: TRANSITION proposes a multidisciplinary pedagogical approach based on Transition design theories and emerging disciplines and practices at the intersection of textile, biology, digital fabrication.