Blog 1- Lecture reflection
Diversity, social responsibility, and sustainability are the keywords in Better Lives Unit. I was inspired a lot after watching a series of lectures. I need to know about how to deal with the relationship between culture, economics and our society in the fashion industry. We have to let fashion ecosystems to be better and better in the future as a fashion student. Two themes in the lecture that inspired me most were cultural sustainability and collaboration. They are interrupted and progress from each other. Let me think about diversity, personality, and desire behind them and how they influence each other.
To begin with. What does cultural mean? What does culture mean to us? To other people? And where does culture exists? These four questions are the beginning of Nick’s lecture. It catches my attention. And I want to provoke the thought about it with Nick. We all have our cultural background, they are innately part of us. Nick analyzed lots of pictures to let me know some representation in history and zeitgeist. London is a diverse city. All of us here are have a different cultural background. It’s interesting for me to learn about other’s cultures and it’s lovely to make friends from a different country. However, there are also some issues in the fashion industry because of the misunderstanding, like cultural procrastination. So, respect cultural differences and realize cultural diversity plays an essential role in the fashion industry nowadays.
With the before theme, sometimes collaboration with different background people is not an easy thing. So I going to watch Claire’s lecture which is about collaboration. Before collaboration with others, know how to collaborate and why we need to collaborate is more important. Define it firstly, just as its name implies, collaboration is a piece of work that has been produced as the result of people or groups working together. ( Collins) And, Claire said it is a way that working together to solve a problem or to achieve a goal. With the sharp development in the fashion industry, it’s hard to create great art for only individuals. So collaboration is becoming more and more important in modern society.
It is an important ability for me to collaborate with others. Learn to listen, share, critical. The essence of collaboration is the relationship between people and people. To a certain extent, different characters and nature determine the success or failure of the cooperation. That is personality.