Course Title: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
Part B: Course Detail
Teaching Period: Term2 2010
Course Code: OHTH5461C
Course Title: Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices
School: 350T Fashion & Textiles
Campus: Brunswick Campus
Program: C5220 - Diploma of Applied Fashion Design and Technology
Course Contact : Mandy Penton
Course Contact Phone: +61 3 99259202
Course Contact Email:mandy.penton@rmit.edu.au
Name and Contact Details of All Other Relevant Staff
PATRICIA BRIEN: patricia.brien@rmit.edu.au
Nominal Hours: 40
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Pre-requisites and Co-requisites
None
Course Description
This unit covers the outcomes required to effectively analyse the workplace in relation to environmentally sustainable work practices and to implement improvements and monitor their effectiveness.
National Codes, Titles, Elements and Performance Criteria
National Element Code & Title: |
MSAENV472A Implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices |
Element: |
1. Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage. |
Performance Criteria: |
1.1 Identify environmental regulations applying to the enterprise. |
Element: |
2. Set targets for improvements. |
Performance Criteria: |
2.1 Seek input from stakeholders, key personnel and specialist. |
Element: |
3. Implement performance improvement strategies. |
Performance Criteria: |
3.1 Source techniques/tools to assist in achieving targets. |
Element: |
4. Monitor performance. |
Performance Criteria: |
4.1 Document outcomes and communicate reports on targets to key personnel and stakeholders. |
Learning Outcomes
In this unit you will be required to develop the skills and knowledge to address processes and techniques necessary to implement and monitor environmentally sustainable work practices, including the development of processes and tools.
It includes:
• Indentifying areas for improvement
• Developing plans to make improvements
• Implementing and monitoring improvements in environmental performance
Details of Learning Activities
Assessing & understanding ethical workplace criteria, Workshop: Designing with Fairtrade materials and concepts,
current sustainability theories and practice in relation to fashion industry,
in-class workshop in creative design & recycling,
Sourcing materials & design concepts for a small collection,
Research into design philosophy and practice of one eco-focussed designer.
Teaching Schedule
Week 1:
Introduction to unit.
Assessment Requirements.
Film: An Inconvenient Truth
Week 2:
Lecture: Approaches to Sustainability
People, Planet, Profit (Triple Bottom Line)
Cradle to Cradle principles
EMS: ISO 14001 (+ ISO 19011)
Assignment hand out: FairTrade Workshop Research
Week 3:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Film: China Blue + Discussion
Human Rights and Workers Rights Issues in the industry
Fairtrade principles, CSR models
Assessment brief: Design concept Moral FairGround Event
Week 5:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Workshop
Week 6:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Workshop & Presentation (WIL)
Week 7:
Ethics & Fashion Production
Auditing for Ethics – (Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production - W.R.A.P.)
Ethical Fashion organizations & crediting organisations
Outworkers and fair wages & conditions (Speaker: Ethical Clothing Australia)
Week 8:
Fibres & sustainability
Manufactured fibres, Natural Fibres and Fibre ‘alternatives’.
New textiles and Fabric Technologies.
Assignment brief: Sourcing materials for a collection
Week 9:
Innovation in Production
Fashion on Demand & Mass customisation
Principles of Biomimicry in design.
Life Cycle Assessments
Week 10:
Fibres & sustainability
Presentation (WIL)
Week 11:
Reduce, reuse and recycle (+ rethink)
Waste management strategies, waste disposal & resource efficiency issues.
The global textile recycling chain.
Precycling, packaging & Design strategies
Reducing the impact of use-phase
MID-TERM BREAK
Week 12:
Reduce, reuse and recycle (+ rethink)
Sorting exercise at BSL
Week 13:
Re-Design: Reduce, reuse, & recycle
Workshop: Creative design possibilities with denim leftovers.
Week 14:
Rethinking Fast: Slow Fashion/Slow Design
Local and/or Global/ Bioregionalism
Traditional craftsmanship including drapery
User-Creator possibilities
Design-led alternatives, multifunctional clothes
Week 15:
Individual Designer Presentations (Folio)
Week 16:
Degrees of Sustainability?
Revision and Conclusion.
Evaluation
Learning Resources
Prescribed Texts
References
Other Resources
Recommended text: Sustainable Fashion & Textiles Design Journeys, Kate Fletcher
Recommended text: Eco-chic the fashion paradox, Sandy Black
Slow Living, Perkins
Sustainable Fashion: Why Now? Janet Hethorn & Connie Ulasewicz
Designers, visionaries & other stories, A collection of sustainable design essays, Jonathan Chapman & Nick Grant
Environmental Management Systems: A Step by Step Guide to Implementation and Maintenance, Christopher Sheldon & Mark Yoxon
Biomimicry, Janine M. Benyus
Bioregional Solutions: For living on one planet, Pooran Desai
Environmental Law (Nutshells), Brenda Short
Modern Environmentalism: An Intro, David Pepper
Overview of Assessment
Detailed course and assessment requirements and information will be made available to you first week of class. Specific details will be explained to you during scheduled classes.
This course comprises both practical and theory components. You will be expected to attend and participate in class activities.
As well as class activities you will be required to undertake research and assessment practice outside of regular class times and participate in formal assessment tasks.
PLEASE NOTE: work that has not been authenticated during class as your own work will not be considered for assessment.
Assessment Tasks
1. In-class Workshop: Creative Design & Recycling + prototype product
2. Research & workshop: Design concepts for Moral FairGround Event + Presentation
3. Visual & Written Research into 1 Sustainable Designer’s practice & philosophy + Presentation (Design Influences Folio)
4. Sourcing materials & design concepts for a small collection + Presentation (group)
Assessment Matrix
In-class Workshop: Creative Design & Recycling + prototype product |
Sourcing materials & design concepts for a small collection + Presentation (group) | Research & workshop: Design concepts for Moral FairGround Event + Presentation (group) | Visual & Written Research into 1 Sustainable Designer + Presentation (Design Influences Folio) |
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Investigate current practices in relation to resource usage. | X | X | X | |
Set targets for improvements | X | |||
Implement performance improvement strategies. | X | X | ||
Monitor performance. | X | X |
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