Sustainable Fashion Tech (Design & Business)

First module in the Spring Semester 2025

The Sustainable Fashion Tech module, Circular Fashion Future, challenges you to critically analyze practical and theoretical issues, emphasizing sociological perspectives, company and market analysis to develop sustainable solutions.

The student-driven approach focuses on iterative design processes, future designer roles, product development, and storytelling. Students gain in-depth user insight to create innovative and functional sustainable products.

As a students you will explore circular design approaches, print, fabric, form experiments, and 3D prototyping in CLO 3D, emphasizing resource utilization. The module aims to develop commercially viable, sustainable design products, rethinking the company value chain with a circular mindset.

Through lectures, workshops, assignments, and projects, students will learn to work independently, collaborate, share knowledge, and manage project processes, including time management

Second module in the Spring Semester 2025

The Design, Business, and Technology module integrates trend research and innovative circular business development with a future-focused approach to address current challenges in the design industry.

During the module, students will explore current and future trends, develop a future trend scenario, and then work collaboratively in teams to create and validate new circular business ideas. The course places a strong emphasis on iterative learning through build, measure, learn loops, and culminates in a group exam where students present their business idea, theory, methods, and learning experience.

Students are expected to attend all lectures throughout the semester in order to acquire the needed skills to pass the exams at the end.

Even if attendance is not registered, our experience is that students will only be able to pass their exam projects in the end, if they have attended all or most lectures.

In addition to attending lectures, it is very important that students have a certain self-discipline and are able to work independently and with their groups on a daily basis throughout the semester.

This means that even if the fixed schedule of lectures appear light, students at KEA are expected to dedicate around 40 hours per week of studying and working with their groups in order to be equipped for the final exams.

At KEA, and in Denmark in general, you are always expected to be on time (for classes, for advising sessions, for meetings with your group, for work, and for any other appointment).

We know punctuality varies a lot from one culture to another, however, we would like to emphasize the importance of this in Danish culture to our visiting exchange students as it can otherwise become a reason for frustration and resentment in various social and study settings.

To acquire the skills and competencies needed to pass the exams at KEA, it is expected that students attend minimum 90 % of lectures, group meetings and dedicate the remaining hours of a full-time week to independent studying of the curriculum and project work with the group.

Additionally, students are expected to attend ALL Q&A’s and advising sessions with lecturers, where info about exams and other big projects will be given (only once).