Cross-cultural Ecologies with Orsola de Castro, Founder and GCD of @FashionRevolutionGlobal

The new lecturer of Cross-cultural Ecologies is Orsola de Castro, Founder and Global Creative Director of @Fashion Revolution. According to Orsola, we are facing an environmental catastrophe unless we re-think our consumption. Moreover, we are equally facing a social disaster unless we look at better ways to protect the everyday workers that make up our powerful industries and Fashion is no exception. Cross-cultural Ecologies are a series of video lectures that takes place every Tuesday and Thursday at 5 pm on the Academy’s social media (Facebook, Instagram TV e Youtube) to give voice to a variety of different figures, knowledge, subjects and geographies in an attempt to find possible solutions to the current crisis. A crisis that perhaps the current pandemic is nothing more than the latest sign of an environmental threat, following global warming, climate change and the jeopardising of the agri-food production model. Cross-cultural Ecologies also stems from the belief that the greatest wealth of biodiversity is found in the margins and in (natural, cultural, social, productive) hybridisations.