ARTG 2290 — Fashion and Wearable Technologies
4 semester hours Undergraduate Lecture NUpath IC NUpath SI usually offered: spring typical days: W Boston Traditional
Introduces key social, environmental, and technical challenges underpinning sustainable innovation in the fashion, wearable technology, and smart textiles industries. Examines inclusive design and circular economy principles and uses them as a framework within which to analyze complex socio-technical networks of production, use and disposal of fashion, wearable technology, and smart textile products, and their impacts on health and wellbeing, society and the planet. Presents the opportunity to gain firsthand experience of the complex nature of today's open, dynamic, and networked problems through a site visit, case studies, and a series of practical activities. Instills understanding of creative intelligence and innovation as a field of practice.
Prerequisites all of: one of: all of: ARTG 1270 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) ARTG 1271 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) ARTM 119M ARTM 11SM ARTG 1250 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) one of: all of: ARTG 1290 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) ARTG 1291 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) ARTM 234M ARTM 23SM ARTG 2250 (min D-) (may be taken concurrently) Offering history Term Sections Enrolled Capacity Full Open seats/section Spring 2026 1 16 16 100% 0.0
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