Members
UCRF is a global organisation, with a membership spanning more than 40 countries. The majority of our members are academic researchers and educators, with a significant proportion working in hybrid roles across both academia and industry. We also have members working in industry, in the media, in museums, and in non-profit organisations.
The ReGo project uses fashion activism, co-creation and storytelling to shift prevailing narratives around youth violence and provides educational and employment opportunities for young people in fashion. These young people are holding manifestos representing the values they stand for. Credit: Francesco Mazzarella.
Member directory
Our member directory can be used in several ways:
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Member of the month
UCRF runs a ‘Member of the Month’ feature on the blog, where a member, selected at random from the member directory, is sent five questions. Their responses provide an insight into the expertise, interests and concerns of fashion and sustainability specialists from around the world.
Motivations
UCRF’s founding document and rallying call is its Manifesto. People joining the Union are asked to sign up to the manifesto and to say why these actions matter. Our members’ responses, which are gathered in occasional posts on the blog, speak volumes.
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There is no other way and time is so short.
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We join together and amplify this movement from a position of genuine concern, free from industry bias and dominant paradigms.
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I could no longer be passive. Having seen first hand the catastrophically detrimental impacts the fashion industry is having on the planet, I cycled everyday past a river which changed colour depending on the leather which was dyed upstream, I could no longer be passive on this topic and needed to take a positive stance and support tangible actions against these practises.
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We have only a limited time to make radical changes to the fashion industry, and therefore we need a coordinated effort to do so.
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It is my duty to be actively engaging with future thinking. As a fashion educator, it is my duty to be actively engaging with (and contributing to) future thinking, innovation and progressive solutions for a cleaner, transparent, earth/people focussed and more consciously engaged global industry.
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We may have diverse conditions and conventions, but all roads lead to one global vision. Fashion has a voice that matter. It has to be heard loud and clear.
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I am concerned about the negative impact the fashion industry is having on our planet. As an academic teaching future fashion professionals I believe we need to alter education to promote new forms of clothing production and consumption.
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I see great value in bringing like-minded individuals together to serve a great cause collectively.
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I want to be a part of the change to transform the fashion system for our planetary ecology and human wellbeing. It is a movement of imagination, not of outlandish thoughts, but of courageous actions that we urgently need today.