Circular Textiles

Susann Schweizer is a fashion designer and the founder of the Poplin Project Zurich.
She earned her bachelor’s degree in Fashion Design at the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel and her master’s degree at the Central St. Martins College of Art and Design in London. She completed continuing education degrees in Adult Education in Art and Design at Zurich University of the Arts and in Sustainability Management at SUMAS Sustainability Management School in Gland, Switzerland.
She has worked as a designer for Zaha Hadid, London; Chacarel, Paris; Princesse Tamtam, Paris; Peclers, Paris; Pyrenex France; and PKZ Burger Kehl AG, Zurich.
She teaches at Ecole Parsons and Istituto Marongoni in Paris.
Schweizer sees change as an opportunity and thus reconciles fashion with sustainability. She aims to create holistic values and solutions in design, in order to make a tangible difference in her efforts to protect people and the planet.

Alternating one-week modules of 2 ECTS credits each are offered in summer and winter workshop weeks. Which can be attended individually according to interest.