Digital Fashion Project: An innovative Collaborative Online International Learning in Digital Fashion
People’s capacities to be entrepreneurial, manage complex information, think autonomously and creatively, use resources, including digital ones, smartly, communicate effectively and be resilient are more crucial than ever.
The DigitalFashion project is co-funded by the European Commission’s ERASMUS+ program under the Strategic Partnerships for Higher Education. The project started in February 2022 and ends in January 2025.
Developing new training methods in the digital area, allowing students and professionals to quickly master key technologies for the design and production of customized products in a virtual environment is one of the main goals of the partnership.
During 36 months the partnership will develop the following activities:
Methodology: Develop the new methodology for a common framework on Collaborative Online International Learning in the field on Digital Fashion.
Library of knowledge: Develop three databases (library of knowledge) of textile materials, colors and garment styles as well as two fashion knowledge bases that will be built and integrated into the platform.
Platform: Develop a supportive platform that will permit fashion students and fashion teachers to design together, in an interactive way, a garment for a specific customer. The special requirements of the customer for the garment will also be communicated via the platform and taken into account in the final design.
Online module: Develop a new joint online module in digital fashion with new training and assessment methods of fashion co-design based on a 3D garment visualization platform.
Training: Training the target group by implementing the new joint online module in digital fashion.
Testing: Testing and implementation of the technology based platform for fashion design.
Dissemination: Dissemination of the project results and project coordination and management.
Project Results:
R1. New methodology for a common framework on Collaborative Online International Learning in the field of Digital Fashion.
R2. Library of knowledge (the three databases) for virtual fashion design and technology.
R3. Training platform of fashion design by personalized 3D virtual garment fitting.
R4. Curricula for Collaborative Online International Learning in the field of Digital Fashion.
The project’s coordinator is Institutul National de Cercetare-Dezvoltare Pentru Textile Si Pielarie – Romania, and the partnership includes:
Ecole Nationale Superieure Arts Industries Textiles – France
Hogeschool Gent – Belgium
Univerza v Mariboru – Slovenia
Centro Tecnológico das Indústrias Têxtil e do Vestuario de Portugal – Portugal
Universitatea Tehnica Gheorghe Asachi Din Iasi – Romania
