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- Human Centered Design
- Level T Vitrines, Human Ecology Building
Threads of Progress: 100 Years of Fashion & Innovation
Threads of Progress: 100 Years of Fashion & Innovation celebrates over a century of fashion innovation, education, and outreach at Cornell University, tracing the evolution of the Textiles and Clothing program from its early days in the College of Home Economics to its current home in the Department of Human Centered Design in the Cornell Human Ecology. Visitors will see garments worn and made by students, faculty, and extension agents—from wartime uniforms to Olympic leotards—showcasing
- Nov 15, 2024
- Community Engagement, Social Impact + Justice, Alumni
Panel discussion shares Indigenous perspectives on education
Researchers from Cornell Human Ecology (CHE) and the University of Buffalo discussed the history of Indigenous education — plus modern-day challenges and opportunities — during a panel discussion on Nov. 4 in Mann Library.
The panel, titled “Indigenous Perspectives in Higher Education: Reflecting on the Past to Inform the Future,” was part of the opening of the Cornell University Library exhibit “Redressing Histories of Early Hodinǫ̱hsǫ́:nih Women at Cornell, 1914-1942,” in connection with CHE’s centennial
- Oct 31 ,2025Nov 3 ,2025Nov 4 ,2025Nov 5 ,2025Nov 6 ,2025Nov 7 ,2025Nov 10 ,2025Nov 11 ,2025Nov 12 ,2025Nov 13 ,2025
- by Melissa Conroy
- Human Centered Design
- Jill Stuart Gallery, Human Ecology Building
Farm to Fashion
Farm to Fashion is an exhibit that shares the story of an ongoing collaboration between knitwear design students at Cornell University and partners within our regional textile economy. The exhibit features work by students from the Department of Human Centered Design as well as others engaged in fiber farming and textile manufacturing. The exhibit was funded by a generous donation from the Cornell Center for Teaching Innovation and a grant from New York Fashion Innovation
- Oct 17 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Human Ecology Building T01
Fast Fashion Before Fast Fashion: Rethinking Histories of Mass-Produced Clothing
Fast fashion is often understood as a recent business model defined by speed, low cost, and disposability. Yet many of its challenges—labor exploitation, environmental harm, and the normalization of overconsumption—have much deeper historical roots. This talk traces the emergence of “fast fashion” through the lens of nineteenth- and twentieth-century shifts in media, merchandising, and consumer culture at large, showing how notions of “progress” and “prosperity” helped obscure the human and environmental costs of mass-produced clothing
- Dec 4, 2023
- by Marisa LaFalce
- Social Impact + Justice
Hinestroza selected for SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute
Juan Hinestroza, the Rebecca Q. Morgan '60 Professor of Fiber Science and Apparel Design, is one of 11 State University of New York (SUNY) employees selected as a fellow for the 2024 SUNY Hispanic Leadership Institute (HLI).
Established in 2017, HLI is part of SUNY’s commitment to become the most inclusive university system in the U.S. It is a demanding six-month experience for SUNY leaders of Hispanic descent and their allies that positions them
- Oct 10 ,2025
- by Karen Steffy
- Human Centered Design
- Virtual
What do we talk about when we talk about fashion?
As a society, we talk about fashion – a lot! What we do to and put on our bodies, the social and economic value of those products and processes, and the identities into which we might step by participating in fashion/style/dress are constantly being reconstituted through the text and images published at a near constant rate into the contemporary media landscape. In this talk I will share what I have learned from more than a
- May 2, 2022
- by E.C Barrett
- Alumni
Led by curiosity and creativity
Andrea Vizcarrondo ’72 has spent the last 30 years nurturing an appreciation for art in visitors to The Metropolitan Museum of Art as a member of the MET’s rigorous docent program. Vizcarrondo’s path from the College of Human Ecology (CHE), where she studied in the Department of Design & Environmental Analysis (now Human Centered Design), to the halls of the MET took her on some unexpected ventures in the fashion world as she followed her