Exploring the social learning potential of community-based participatory sustainable fashion and textiles activities framed by speculation.

This internship supports the creation of an open-access publication on sustainable fashion, intergenerational learning, and craft practices. It investigates how participatory speculative design through Fashion Fictions workshops enables community textile groups to collaboratively imagine alternative fashion futures, fostering collective imagination, social learning, and agency. The project is the first Mitacs Globalink partnership between Nottingham Trent University’s Sustainable Transitions Research Group (STRG) and Concordia University’s Geography, Planning, and Environment community, bridging sustainable fashion/design and decolonial geography. The research environment provides hands-on experience in workshops, intergenerational sessions, and co-design exercises, with access to STRG networks, seminars, and interdisciplinary collaborations. The internship will support the intern’s development, contribute to an open-access publication, strengthen cross-institutional collaboration, and advance Canada’s leadership in socially grounded sustainability research.

Faculty Supervisor:

Nalini Mohabir

Student:

Partner:

Nottingham Trent University

Discipline:

Sociology

Sector:

Sustainability and the Environment; Education; Other

University:

Concordia University

Program:

Globalink Research Award

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