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Skoða vefinn á ÍslenskuHildur Sumarlidadóttir
Hildur Sumarliðadóttir will graduate with a master's degree and teaching qualifications from the Faculty of Art Education in the spring of 2025.
Up, Up and Turn
Empowering workshop and learning website for high schools
This final project explores how creative workshops and education can empower young people to become aware and responsible consumers in a world where fast fashion, harmful materials in clothing, and human rights violations are commonplace.
The project addresses the impact of the textile industry on health, the environment and society, with a particular focus on toxins in clothing, social responsibility and sustainability. It is based on a theoretical foundation of education for sustainability, transformative learning and artistic activism as a teaching method, where artistic creation is used to promote critical thinking and awareness-raising. The project includes a qualitative study of the workshop Upp Upp og Snú, where young people were given the opportunity to create from used textiles and reflect on the impact of their consumption. The methodology was based on participation, interviews and thematic analysis of the participants' experiences.
Results show that such education and creative approaches can increase youth awareness of sustainability, toxins in clothing, and social responsibility, as well as reduce feelings of powerlessness and climate anxiety through empowering tools. The product of the project is a learning website that contains activities that support teaching sustainability and creative reuse. The paper highlights the importance of integrating critical education and the arts in school work to promote the active participation of youth in the society of the future.
Supervisor: Hanna Margrét Einarsdóttir
30 ECTS MA Art Pedagogy
2025
