Social Alterations founder Mary Hanlon presenting at FEI Conference: Fast Forward, London, March 2nd, 2010

2. www.socialalterations.com An Online Education Lab for Socially Responsible Fashion Design

4. Why? Although consumer education will continue to play a role in shaping the creation of a socially responsible fashion industry, signals of deception such as greenwashing, unintelligent designs, and hidden ingredients have left consumers with no real choice. SA argues that the designer always has a choice…

5. Consequence “ Designers think they’re in the artifact business, but they’re not; they’re in the consequence business” -Allan Chochinov, Compostmodern09

7. Interdisciplinary Education Design education is a necessary point of intervention within the current supply chain system.

8. Okay, what now? “ One serious problem for designers is that, even with a systems approach, there are few tools in existence that wrap these issues together. Instead, designers must learn to match together a series of disparate approaches, understandings, and frameworks in order to build a complete solution.” — Nathan Shedroff, Design Is the Problem: The Future of Design Must be Sustainable , 2009 Social Alterations is a place for the learner, be that educator or student, to get started…

11. Platforms for Discussion Facebook Ning Blog

15. Interdisciplinary problems call for interdisciplinary solutions…

16. Interdisciplinary Education

17. Project H Design // Design Revolution: The Toolkit

18. Example: ‘Design for Disassembly’ (DfD) De/create for ‘Afterlife’ Education must be embedded within each cycle of the design process.

20. Thank you. www.socialalterations.com

21. Works Cited Allan Chochinov, Compostmodern09. “Allan Chochinov.” 21 February 2009. Live Webcast. AIGA, Table. “The Living Principles Genealogy,” October 2009, Page C. On-line. Internet. Available http://www.aiga.org/resources/content/7/3/1/2/documents/AIGA_The_Living_Principles_Genealogy.pdf . [Note that the final period marks the end of the citation and is not part of the electronic address.] Nathan Shedroff, Quote. AIGA, “The Living Principles Genealogy” October 2009, Page A. On-line. Internet. Available http://www.aiga.org/resources/content/7/3/1/2/documents/AIGA_The_Living_Principles_Genealogy.pdf . [Note that the final period marks the end of the citation and is not part of the electronic address.] Project H Design, “Don’t do what you don’t know.” Design Revolution: The Toolkit , pg. 42-43. On-line. Internet. Available http://designrevolutionroadshow.com/wp-content/uploads/DesignRevolutionToolkit.pdf Diener, Alex. “Afterlife: An Essential Guide To Design Disassembly.” The diagram used here has been adapted from the ‘Design for Disassembly Roadmap’ in this article. 1 February 2010. On-line. Internet. Available www.core77.com/blog/featured_items/afterlife_an_essential_guide_to_design_for_disassembly_by_alex_diener__15799.asp