Circular Clothing Social Innovation Lab Film Premiere and Panel Discussion

What’s on offer?

This event will showcase a series of short films produced by Bertha Park High School, Perth, Scotland students, exploring the themes of clothing acquisition, use and disposal and the need to reduce our consumption of clothing and transition to clothing circularity. Dr Lynn Wilson has provided support through a series of in-person and prerecorded learning sessions that explain the problems and solutions to reduce our clothing consumption. The event is a hybrid event, that includes a student-curated panel discussion about their experiences of clothing consumption, followed by a world premiere of the students’ films, written, filmed and edited by the students and staff in the school. The event will be promoted through national secondary school networks, which can engage up to 200 S3 students and teaching staff in the UK. In-person film showings will be held for parents and friends.

What’s it about?

The event highlights social research as a tool to investigate particular societal behaviours and how by learning about our current clothing behaviours and their negative impact on the planet, we can begin to understand how to do things differently and consume less.

The Circular Clothing Innovation Lab, is a pilot project designed by Dr Lynn Wilson to explore clothing acquisition, use and disposal behaviours with S3 pupils ( age 14) from Bertha Park High School, Bertha Park, Perth, Scotland. Dr Wilson has acted as a ‘social research advisor’ to the students. This has involved, launching the project in person, recording short pre-recorded teaching resources for the students and teaching staff to explore, and help them research their own clothing acquisition, use and disposal behaviour. The information gathered will be developed into a series of 2–3-minute films by the students, concluding with their recommendations on what they would like clothing access to look like to achieve sustainable clothing behaviour.

Who’s leading the event?

The event lead is Dr Lynn Wilson, a social researcher in collaboration with Principal Career Guidance teacher, Katrina Cuthbertson, Bertha Park High School.

Open to

The target audience for this event is secondary school students and staff in Scotland and throughout the UK. It is hoped that schools will sign up in advance as the University of Glasgow will host the event online. In-person, audience will include school students, parents and friends of the school and catchment area.

Of particular interest to

Students interested in learning more about Circular economy

Event Booking details

Please use the following code when booking via EventBrite: UofG-FoSS

 

Scheduling information

Hybrid event

10.45 – 10.50 Welcome from Mr Stuart Clyde, Headmaster, Bertha Park High School

10.50 – 11.00 – Dr Lynn Wilson, Introduction to FoSS and the project

11.00 – 11.10 – Film premiere x 3 films approx 3 minutes long, professionally edited (separate budget)

11.10 - 11.30 – Student panel discussion, moderated by senior student and contributions from 3 students

In-person

11.30 -12.00 – Refreshments and student engagement with visitors to the school ( by invitation only)

Event booking deadline

Passcode: UofG-FoSS