Bonus Episode: Communities of Scale

Apr 7

In this bonus episode, we share our perspectives on the Covid-19 pandemic and how it’s effected our personal and work lives. We discuss the opportunities that may emerge from this crisis, with a hope that businesses will think more humanistically and instead of rushing to build economies of scale, consider creating communities of scale.

Conversation with: Dr. Niz Safrudin, Joshua Williams and Christopher Lacy

Hosted by: Christopher Lacy, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Produced by: Joshua Williams, Assistant Professor, Parsons School of Design

Executive Producer: Fashion Consort

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Joshua T Williams

Joshua Williams is an award-winning creative director, writer and educator. He has lectured and consulted worldwide, specializing in omni-channel retail and fashion branding, most recently at ISEM (Spain) and EAFIT (Colombia), and for brands such as Miguelina, JM, Andrew Marc and Anne Valerie Hash. He is a full time professor and former fashion department chair at Berkeley College and teaches regularly at FIT, LIM and The New School. He has developed curriculum and programming, including the fashion design program for Bergen Community College, that connects fashion business, design, media and technology. His work has been seen in major fashion magazines and on the New York City stage. Joshua is a graduate of FIT’s Global Fashion Management (MPS) program, and has been the director and host of the Faces & Places in Fashion lecture series at FIT since 2010.

http://www.joshuatwilliams.com

Bonus Episode: Communities of Scale

Episode 03: Conversation with Stacy Graiko, Managing Director, Qualitative Research, Kantar

Episode 02: Conversation with Yasmine Sayed, Sr Consultant, Newmine