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You are what you wear. 

6pm-7pm, Thursday, 9 November 2023
You are what you wear.  Can you dress well, feel good and save the planet at the same time? Have your say.
Led by Katerina Fotopoulou, Professor in Psychodynamic Neuroscience, Psychoanalysis Unit, Research Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology, Brain Sciences, UCL
Lecture Room 421, 4th Floor Roberts Building, UCL  NB: The Roberts Building is accessed via the entrance in Malet Street

To participate fully in this event, participants will need to bring their smartphone, or similar device, and connect to the internet to take part in an interactive session:

Join our interactive workshop exploring how a textile circular economy can serve our wellbeing, while also saving the planet.  
More and more people care about the ethics of fashion and saving the planet through responsible consumption. However, we also care about how clothes make us look and feel, and what they are costing us. How do all these considerations about our and the planet’s wellbeing relate? Do we have the knowledge and opportunities required to serve all these needs? What can the psychology of fashion, novel technologies of co-design, smart clothes and the sustainable brain teach us?

The session focuses on the psychology of wellbeing revealing that while narrow, hedonic interpretations of wellbeing are partly responsible for our culture of fast fashion and fast ecological destruction, alterative concepts of eudaimonic, and ‘long-term’ wellbeing can be leveraged to pursue sustainability in fashion.

This is a participatory lecture where the answers of the participants about their own experiences, knowledge and relation to fashion, psychology and sustainability will be projected ‘live’ onto the screen and discussed in combination with existing research studies.  The event will include a prize quiz.