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Designing Sustainability as the New Cultural Paradigm:

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  • April 17, 2008, 8:00 AM-5:30 PM in The John Reeves Great Hall
    Fashion Institute of Technology, 7th Avenue at 27th Street, New York, NY 10001

The purpose of this event is to inform, involve and inspire the entire FIT community about sustainability and how to incorporate sustainability as a model into all aspects of what we do. 

Speakers Included:

  • Jim Thomas
  • SHoP Architects
  • Emily Kildow
  • Faculty and Student Panel
  • Eric Feinblatt
  • Anamaria Cobo de Paci, Jeffrey Lang, and Evan Peoples
  • Geoffrey Rogers
  • Artie Kopelman
  • Georgia Kalivas

 

Activities included:

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SCHEDULE  and PRESENTATIONS

8:00-9:00 am
Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30 - 8:45 am
Welcoming Address
  • Dr. Joyce Brown, President, FIT

9:15 -9:45 am

 Defining Sustainability

  • Arthur Kopelman, Ph.D., Professor of Science, Department of Science & Mathematics, FIT 

        

9:45 - 10:15 am

 Every Day Matters – Corporate Social Responsibility at J. C. Penney
    Jim Thomas, Sustainability VP at J. C. Penney

10:30 –11:00 am

 Programmatic Aspects of Implementing a School of Sustainability
  • Anamaria Cobo de Paci, Dean of Students, Stony Brook Southampton
  • Jeffrey Lang, Student activist, Stony Brook Southampton
  • Evan Peoples, Student activist, Stony Brook Southampton

11:00 -12:00 pm
Sustainability consciousness raising efforts of faculty and students here at FIT and elsewhere

Faculty and Student Panel

  • Sandra Krasovec, Associate Professor, Packaging Design Department, FIT

  • Barbara Knapp, Adjunct Faculty, International Trade and Marketing Department , FIT

  • Jane Tabachnick, Enterprise Center, FIT

  • Oya Demirli, Institute for Sustainable Communication

  • Josias Hernandez, Student Activist, Interior Design Club President

  • Nicole Baez, Student Activist, International Trade and Marketing

12:00 -12:30 pm
Emerging Green Builders

  • Emily Kildow, US Green Building Council - New York Chapter

12:35 -2:00 pm

  •  Lunch Break

  •  Fashion Show
2:00 –2:30 pm
Climate Change
  • Geoffrey Rogers, Ph. D., Chair, Department of Science and Mathematics, FIT
2:30 - 3:00 pm
Fair Trade: Fair for Life
  • Georgia Kalivas, Faculty, Textile Development and Marketing, FIT
3:00 –3:45 pm
Sustainable Development - Case Study: Waste-for-Life
  • Eric Feinblatt, Adjunct Faculty, FIT Graduate School

4:00- 4:30 pm
Sustainable Architectural Models
  • SHoP Architects
4:30 - 5:00 pm
Patagonia: Reducing our Footprint: Reporting and Action
  • Nate Paulson
    Patagonia Westport Store Manager
5:00 - 5:30 pm Where do we go from here?
  • Wrap up and Q and A

Additional Presentations:

Student presentations:

Sustainable FIT Campus

How to Go Green at the Fashion Institute of Technology

 

 

 

 

This event is organized and run by:

The FIT Sustainability group

 

This event is sponsored by:

Office of the President

 

Jay and Patty Baker School of Business and Technology

The Textile Development and Marketing Department

School of Art and Design

School of Liberal Arts

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