WORKSHOP PLAN: Passion for Fashion - a creative exploration of the global garment industry

This resource can be used as an introduction to working conditions in the garment industry through creativity, interactive exercises and film.

The resource is available to borrow from Fashioning an Ethical Industry (please contact us), or can be downloaded for free from the Reading International Solidarity Centre website. 

Activities in the resource include:



- Look at your labels: a warm-up activity to explore where our clothes are made

- Winner takes all: a role-play about cotton to enable participants to think about how trade effects different people within the fashion chain.

- The trainers race: a quiz

- Film questions: discussion questions based on The Mark Thomas Product Series 5 film which documents how school children call on the marketing director of adidas to account in relation to their workers' rights record

- Revamping old clothes: ideas for revamping old clothes

- Campaign workshop: The session enables participants to reflect on issues in the fashion industry and what can be done about the situation.  It involves individuals making their own campaign t-shirts with a slogan they have designed themselves.

- Drama workshop: This drama activity enables participants to experience what it feels like to be a garment worker through role-play. It draws out quality of life issues and also generates an understanding of social injustice and the need for change.

- Evaluation activities

- Resources: lists teaching resources, background reading, exhibitions, useful contacts and weblinks

Publisher: RISC 

 

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