Driving Question: Choosing Your Cause

Driving Question: How can I use our fashion tech runway show as a platform to advocate for an idea, issue or cause that is important to me?

Activity

Students choose a subject, policy, or an issue that they would like to research and design for the runway. After finding out more about their chosen cause, idea, or issue, they then will need to present this information to classmates and convince at least 2 of them to join their design team.

The following questions may be helpful if students are having a difficult time coming up with a subject:

• What am I passionate about? Create a list of as many subjects as you can.
• If I could change anything about my school, what would I change?
• If I could change anything about my neighborhood, what would I change?
• If I could change anything about the world, what would I change?
• If I could change anything about my life, what would I change?

From the answers above, choose 2 subjects, issues, or causes for which you could design a fashion tech piece that would tell the advocacy story on the runway.