Sustainable Textile Manufacturing

Politecnico di Milano via Coursera

Go to Course: https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-textile-manufacturing

Introduction

Acquiring technical knowledge of traditional manufacturing processes

Acquiring technical knowledge about sustainable requirements and solutions

Understanding contemporary change towards sustainability

Understanding of the complexity and multitude of processes and stakeholders along the textile supply chain

Syllabus

Week 0: Introduction

Week 1: Materials

Week 2: Design and Production

Week 3: Integrating innovative technologies

Week 4: Final Survey

Overview

The MOOC aims to describe the approach to sustainability in the Italian textile manufacturing sector (for clothing and other sectors) with a specific focus on all steps of the production chain. Each video focuses on one step of the supply chain (raw material sourcing, spinning, weaving, design, prototyping, production, integration of innovative technologies in the processes) and tells the state of the art on the sector's sustainable approach, possible plans and interventions, as well as the opp

Skills

Reviews

The course was very useful in terms of educating the fashion industry people about the sustainability importance. The only issue was that the volume of the persons almost in every video was very low.