The 7 complex lessons from Edgar Morin applied in fashion design education for sustainability

Abstract

This article discusses the role of the University and the importance of transdisciplinary schooling in the education of Fashion Design. Its approach is based on the seven complex lessons proposed by the French anthropologist and sociologist Edgar Morin, which suggests the existence of seven fundamental problems in this century’s education system at all levels. By understanding the need of a more direct and effective approach to sustainability on Fashion Design education and focusing on the training of designers capable of dealing with the challenges of fashion industry and society, we aim, with this article, to show how sustainability could be presented in a transdisciplinary way on education of Fashion Design and following the seven complex lessons proposed by Morin. This seven complex lessons focus on detecting error and illusion, the principles of pertinent knowledge, teaching the human condition, earth identity, confronting uncertainties, understanding each other and ethics for the human genre, taking to this discussion about Fashion education, therefore this article was written using references and examples from Fashion Design.