Trend Forecaster Li Edelkoort on Hybridity in Education | Inside Fashion
The Business of Fashion Podcast
The Business of Fashion
4.6 • 770 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Speaking in conversation with Imran Amed, the trend forecaster-turned-course designer outlines the need for interdisciplinary studies when teaching generation next, and why the fashion industry needs to return — quite literally — to the roots of textile creation.
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| 0:00.0 | You cannot educate kids anymore with just one discipline. |
| 0:07.0 | It's the whole idea of transformative education. |
| 0:10.0 | I think in the future we will have to create totally new schools. |
| 0:15.0 | How do you see the future of materials when it comes to skins? |
| 0:20.0 | My question is, if I have a bag which is made out of this |
| 0:24.6 | biotech ladder, which can be produced on big scale, do I still want it? Meaning it's less desirable |
| 0:32.1 | because it's not natural. It's not fetishistic. Hi, this is Imran Ahmed founder and CEO of the Business of Fashion. |
| 0:40.6 | This week we've been talking about the best fashion schools in the world on B.OF. |
| 0:44.6 | And as part of our overall exploration of fashion education, I sat down with a legendary figure in fashion and someone we at BOF have turned too often when looking to the future |
| 0:55.2 | of fashion. Lee Edelcourt is the dean of hybrid design studies and the associate provost at the |
| 1:01.2 | Parsons School of Design. Now that sounds very complicated, but it's not really. What Lee's whole |
| 1:06.1 | purpose at Parsons is is to show the value of studying at the intersection of multiple disciplines. |
| 1:12.2 | It's all about multidisciplinary education. I visited Lee recently in her office at Parsons in New York, |
| 1:19.3 | and we discussed how fashion education needs to change. So here's Lee Edelcourt, inside fashion. |
| 1:29.3 | Hello, Lee. how are you? |
| 1:31.3 | I'm good, I'm very good. |
| 1:33.3 | Thank you for hosting me here. |
| 1:34.3 | We're at the Parsons New School of Design here in New York City, |
| 1:39.3 | and Lee has just walked me through an exhibition of some of the work out of the new MFA textiles |
| 1:47.3 | program here at Parsons. And about a week or so ago, I got an email from Lee and she told me |
| 1:55.5 | that on B.O.F, the textile debate needs to start. So when Lee tells me something I need to do, I listen, so I'm here. |
| 2:03.0 | And before we- Thank you for being. No, of course. Thank you for having me. I mean, before we get |
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