ABSTRACT
Undergraduate design education generally aims to ensure that students will be able to practise with a working knowledge defined by their respective professions, and are delivered through sequentially required classes in each creative major. This chapter provides the experience of developing an undergraduate Fashion Sustainability course at California College of the Arts. Providing examples of pedagogy, activities, projects and student work, it aims to illustrate the successes and the continued challenges in educating to enable critical and reflective sustainability practice. The broader college governance responsibilities of full-time faculty has opened awareness of and access to faculty resources in other divisions of the college and has fostered cross-discipline links to enrich both the learning and the teaching experience. The Sustainable Fashion Design curriculum initiative, now required of all undergraduate fashion design students, comprises individual seminar and studio classes that are also linked across a broader interdisciplinary programme.
