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Fast Fashion - The T-Shirt Board Game
Friday November 15, 2024 1:45pm - 4:45pm MST
Caribou Room - Coast Canmore Hotel
Do you know who made your T-shirt? Or how it was made? Checking the tag may not tell you enough to know if it was made ethically, or if it was made under exploitative working conditions. Here’s another question: What happens to it when you no longer want it?

In Fast Fashion: The T-shirt board game, players assume the role of T-shirts. Along the way, they discover the realities behind the fashion industry and its impact on people and planet. Players roll the dice to enter different pathways a T-shirt may take, like getting a tear, or being donated to a thrift store.

The board game was created for use in schools and other educational settings to help teachers and students learn more about—and take action on—sustainable fashion. It includes a focus on the Sustainable Development Goals such as Gender Equality, Decent Work & Economic Growth, and Climate Action, among others.

Players are asked to think beyond their fashion inspiration to uncover both helpful and hurtful realities of the fashion industry. One of the more important realities is where our clothes end up when we no longer want them. Spoiler alert—everything ends up in the dump!

Rather than leaving with the heaviness of the negative impacts of the fast fashion industry, players will finish the game with a sense of empowerment and positivity as they discover ways to take action in their own lives. In the game, the best place to be is in the Wear Cycle and each roll of the dice determines how long the player stays there, and how many Wear Tokens they receive. The more times a T-shirt is worn, the better! Everyone feels like a winner when a player can stay out of the dump as long as possible.
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Amanda Benson

Manitoba Council for International Cooperation
Amanda Benson is the Education Specialist with the Manitoba Council for International Cooperation. She holds a degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Manitoba and has a background in sustainability education with Parks Canada and Ducks Unlimited Canada.
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Wajed El-Halabi

Global Citizenship Education Lead, Alberta Council for Global Cooperation
Wajed holds an HBA in Psychology from the University of Alberta and an MA in Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and Diaspora and Transnational Studies from the University of Toronto. She has experience with sustainable climate technology, cultural heritage preservation and development... Read More →
Friday November 15, 2024 1:45pm - 4:45pm MST
Caribou Room - Coast Canmore Hotel
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