Fashion Design Thinking is a course aimed at businesses operating in the textile/manufacturing and textile/clothing sector. The aim is to reflect on a new design and production methodology called Open design.

Exploring this area will help bring your business into line with new scenarios in the fashion system, making it a one-of-a-kind industry that embraces the most advanced results of innovation, digitalisation and sustainability. To define this new scenario, the course focuses on two key concepts: multidimensionality and multi-disciplinarity. 

Textiles, the essential ingredient in formulating unexplored processes, will play a crucial role. The Telaio 31 case study will be a particular focus here. This aesthetic-experimental research project is designed under the European Textile Technology Platform while the strategy called The Ted – Zero Waste Dress is a design and production experiment aimed at developing a ‘total manufacturing’ and textile functionalisation process. 

Aimed at those working in creativity, marketing and communication at Italian SMEs, brand owners wanting to explore new design frontiers, and fashion freelancers looking to learn about new design cultures in contemporary fashion, the course provides an understanding of the hybrid methodological and production perspective based on the transfer of knowledge from one sector to another and on the hybridisations of knowledge. One example that Fashion Design Thinking guidelines give us.