GAConf22: Play your clothes right: a card game for fashion geographies - #68 of many

The latest in a series of posts showcasing sessions which are included in the programme for the GA Conference in April 2022.

Professor Ian Cook is someone that I have worked with and known for a considerable time, going back to when I first met him while teaching. 

He was one of the people who kindly gave up his time to support the launch of the Young People's Geographies project which begain in 2006. He brought his PhD student at the time: Helen Griffiths, who was exploring supply chains and connections. They worked on some useful resources and articles for the GA's journals.

Ian Cook, James Evans, Helen Griffiths, Lucy Mayblin, Becky Payne & David Roberts (2007) ‘Made in…?’ appreciating the everyday geographies of connected lives. Teaching geography Summer, p.80-3

Ian Cook, James Evans, Helen Griffiths, Rebecca Morris, Sarah Wrathmell, et al. (2007) ‘It’s more than just what it is’: defetishising commodities, expanding fields, mobilising change… Geoforum 38(6), p.1113-1126

His article on the journey of the papaya from 2004 showed a technique which has now become more common, which is to track the story of items and identify the links that are involved.

He then launched the Follow the Things project, and very kindly got me involved in producing the education resources at a time when I really needed some work. Check out the Twitter feed,

The session is called 'Play your clothes right: a card game for fashion geographies'. 

This session will discuss how the geographies of fashion can be taught through the clothes we’re wearing. 

It will invite you to make and play a DIY Top Trumps card game that will help you to visualise and to play with clothing brands’ scores published annually in Fashion Revolution’s Fashion Transparency Index. 

Which clothes are winners? 

Which are losers? 

And why? 

Prof. Ian Cook et al, Professor of cultural geography, University of Exeter 

Lecture Plus 

Ian's last GA lecture that I can remember was on his political LEGO work. You can aread about that here.

KS4-P16

Image: the Follow the Things Ladybird