From the blog
Keep up to date with the latest updates from the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion.
Declaración sobre la COP26
La emergencia climática es una amenaza existencial para la vida en la Tierra.
Communiqué from Local Assembly Alaska
The Alaska local assembly took place at the Museum of Anchorage on 4th October 2021.
Miguel Angel Gardetti
Our tenth participant is Miguel Angel Gardetti.
UCRF Statement on COP26
The climate emergency is an existential threat to life on Earth.
Funding advocacy project 2019-20
In 2019-20 the Union wrote to research funding bodies around the world regarding priorities for funding fashion and sustainability research.
Anupama Pasricha
Our ninth participant is Anupama Pasricha.
Update from the UCRF Reading Group
The UCRF reading group opened its digital doors on 30th April 2021.
Olga Johnston
Our eighth participant is Olga Johnston.
Local Assembly Buenos Aires, Argentina
How to accelerate sustainability from the integration of unheard voices?
Fashion Revolution, 2021
Living in India, I have seen the suffering with which garment workers walked hundreds of kilometers back to their villages after Western brands refused to pay for the goods they had ordered in the weeks and months before Covid-19 hit.
Earth Day 2021
This Earth Day let us reinvigorate relationships with the earth.
Gitika Goyal
Our seventh participant is Gitika Goyal.
Process for setting up a UCRF working group
This document sets out guidelines for members of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion in setting up a working group.
Ursula Franklin
“Technology involves organization, procedure, symbols, new words, equations, and most of all, it involves a mindset.”
Local Assembly India Communique
Over a number of months throughout the Coronavirus lockdown, a contingent of UCRF members from/with connections to India met online to explore themes of importance to the country.
Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2021
Yes, it is that time again! It is the Union’s yearly collaborative wikipedia edit-a-thon! Like in the last two years, the date is 26th February.
The last glossary working group update of the year
“Imagine us all together in the same room one day”
Noorin Khamisani
Our sixth participant is Noorin Khamisani.
Victoria Frausin
Our fifth participant is Victoria Frausin.
Update from the glossary working group
At the glossary working group, this month we were explorers of the word “sustainability”.