Marte Louise Lilleby 10/24/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 10/24/21

UCRF Statement on COP26

The climate emergency is an existential threat to life on Earth.

Marte Louise Lilleby 9/20/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 9/20/21

Funding advocacy project 2019-20

In 2019-20 the Union wrote to research funding bodies around the world regarding priorities for funding fashion and sustainability research.

Marte Louise Lilleby 9/1/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 9/1/21

Anupama Pasricha

Our ninth participant is Anupama Pasricha.

Marte Louise Lilleby 5/11/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 5/11/21

Update from the UCRF Reading Group

The UCRF reading group opened its digital doors on 30th April 2021.

Marte Louise Lilleby 5/3/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 5/3/21

Olga Johnston

Our eighth participant is Olga Johnston.

Marte Louise Lilleby 4/26/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 4/26/21

Local Assembly Buenos Aires, Argentina

How to accelerate sustainability from the integration of unheard voices?

Marte Louise Lilleby 4/23/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 4/23/21

Fashion Revolution, 2021

Living in India, I have seen the suffering with which garment workers walked hundreds of kilometers back to their villages after Western brands refused to pay for the goods they had ordered in the weeks and months before Covid-19 hit.

Marte Louise Lilleby 4/18/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 4/18/21

Earth Day 2021

This Earth Day let us reinvigorate relationships with the earth.

Marte Louise Lilleby 3/16/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 3/16/21

Gitika Goyal

Our seventh participant is Gitika Goyal.

Marte Louise Lilleby 3/15/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 3/15/21

Process for setting up a UCRF working group

This document sets out guidelines for members of the Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion in setting up a working group.

Marte Louise Lilleby 3/12/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 3/12/21

Ursula Franklin

“Technology involves organization, procedure, symbols, new words, equations, and most of all, it involves a mindset.”

Marte Louise Lilleby 3/3/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 3/3/21

Local Assembly India Communique

Over a number of months throughout the Coronavirus lockdown, a contingent of UCRF members from/with connections to India met online to explore themes of importance to the country.

Marte Louise Lilleby 2/12/21 Marte Louise Lilleby 2/12/21

Wikipedia edit-a-thon 2021

Yes, it is that time again! It is the Union’s yearly collaborative wikipedia edit-a-thon! Like in the last two years, the date is 26th February.

Marte Louise Lilleby 12/16/20 Marte Louise Lilleby 12/16/20

The last glossary working group update of the year

“Imagine us all together in the same room one day”

Marte Louise Lilleby 12/14/20 Marte Louise Lilleby 12/14/20

Noorin Khamisani

Our sixth participant is Noorin Khamisani.

Marte Louise Lilleby 10/29/20 Marte Louise Lilleby 10/29/20

Victoria Frausin

Our fifth participant is Victoria Frausin.

Marte Louise Lilleby 10/25/20 Marte Louise Lilleby 10/25/20

Update from the glossary working group

At the glossary working group, this month we were explorers of the word “sustainability”.

Marte Louise Lilleby 10/23/20 Marte Louise Lilleby 10/23/20

Manfred Max-Neef

“I severed my ties with the trends imposed by the economic establishment, disengaged myself from “objective abstractions” and decided to “step into the mud”.

Marte Louise Lilleby 10/23/20 Marte Louise Lilleby 10/23/20

I signed this manifesto because …

The Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion’s founding document is its Manifesto. This, our rallying call to like-minded individuals, invites people to support the Union by putting their name to the manifesto and saying why these actions matter.