This project tries to find innovative ways of communicating the ideas of sustainability and tries to suggest new green activities within the hair and beauty trades and the mediagraphics sector.
On this blog you can find information about the project goals, several activities and content about sustainability, innovation and education.
Leonardo Meeting in Málaga, February 19th-22th of 2013
Next week there will be a workconference in Malaga, Spain. During this conference students will participate in workshops preparing issues of the project like a magazine and a sustainable hair and beauty show. More information on tab: "events".
Topic list for students
In the gadget right to this column you can find the topic list.
Leonardo Meeting in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, May 14th-17th of 2013
The workconference in Scotland has a four day interesting program, developed by our partner the Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy . Part of the program are presentations and there will be workshops: (Hairdressers )Working on Hairdressing Toolkit worksheets ; show preparation (hairdressing, beauty and fashion design); development of a magazine (graphic media). More information on tab: "events".
Toolbox
On the website is a link to the toolbox. This toolbox is the result of the research done by the students. Click on the toolboxpicture to link to the website. Click on Research Results-Toolbox.
Report of activities in Kircaldy
by
Christina Laing, Department
Manager Adam Smith College, Scotland
The ISCI
project visit to Scotland started with the planning of the week in January
2013. Guest speakers with a passion for
green issues were asked to come along from Southhampton
University. They are involved in their great “Green Salon Make-Over” project which is aiming to teach
hairdressers all about sustainability so that they can then inform and
encourage their clients to be more sustainable.
Dr Denise Baden and Dr Swarna Prasad were invited to
present on the first day of the project the 14th May. Denise
was presenting somewhere else but Swarna
kindly agreed to come along.
Elaine Crawford is sustainability
lead at Dumfries and Galloway College and has been working closely with Adam
Smith College and our students to help with her own MSC qualification. Elaine
has presented to our students and carried out a survey to assess where they are
regarding how informed they are about sustainability. Our project students are
currently working with the students to teach them what they are learning
through the project and when Elaine
speaks to them next and asks them the same questions, we hope to see a much
more sustainability aware and informed group.
Elaine was invited to present
in the afternoon on day one of the Scottish weeks activities.
Peggy Morgan is the lead
for Colleges Scotland a body who are funded by the Scottish Government to
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| Peggy Morgan |
support and encourage information sharing and best practice across Scottish
Colleges.
Peggy who is sustainability and sector lead for hair and beauty was
invited to come along and present on the second day to the hairdressers all
about how this works across Scotland for the hair and beauty sector.
Lorna Milton and her
daughter Lauren had previously
hosted a visit from myself and my Higher National hairdressing students to
their Green Salon Elan Hairdressing in
Inverurie, Aberdeenshire so they were both invited along to take part in the
discussions following the presentations and to join us for a staff dinner to be
held at the colleges Rotunda restaurant on the Tuesday evening.
Sean McDonnagh from Hair and Beauty World, (hair and beauty
suppliers), was invited along as he had recently accompanied me to Italy to
visit Maletti (Hair and Beauty Furniture Suppliers) with
a view to the college installing a vented green salon where Maletti would help sponsor some of the
equipment to enable us to be the first green vented salon in the UK.
Goldwell (cosmetics representatives), Dave Hutchison and Glen Robertson were invited along as they sponsored the goodie bags
to be provided to the visitors and would be important to help us meet our
project aims of encouraging the industry to move to more green products ranges.
Ann Millar of Renella hairdressing was also invited
as she was previous chair of the Scottish HABIA (Hairdressing and Beauty
Industry Authority) forum and she has presented in sustainability at various
Scottish events and is involved in the Southampton project.
The
rooms were booked (something that is always a problem as they are always filled
with booked students using all the salons and classroom space). The refreshments were ordered, goodie bags
made up and programmes sent out to all the partners along with a delegate
list. All that remained was for
everything to be confirmed a week before and the visitors to all arrive at the
local Beveridge Park Hotel then the week could begin.
A week
before all presenters were confirmed, goodie bags and folders were put together
and Hazel Terry fashion lecturer at
Adam Smith College made tartan name badges for everyone to wear to help us
remember names.
The long
awaited Tuesday arrived and it was great to meet up with old friends who had
travelled from Spain, Malta, Denmark and the Netherlands to be here, lots of
hugs and greetings took place then it was down to chatting over coffee and
shortbread to catch up on everyone’s news.
The
presentations all went very well and were informative and relevant to the
project, lots of questions and discussions took place and partners asked questions
and took copies of the presentations.
Time was
spent discussing the work we wanted to get through in the project week and
looking at the evaluation from the previous visit to Malaga.
The
evening meal for staff was a great occasion and college students were thanked
for the high quality of food and service.
Students went out together and socialized in the town and everyone had a
good time.
On the
second day (Wednesday), Media Graphics staff and students visited the colleges
Stenton campus for a tour of the media graphics sound and video production
studio’s and commented how they had been made very welcome. They asked that a staff member from this area
be involved in future trips. The
hairdressers stayed in the hotel and Peggy
carried out her presentation which was really interesting and gave partners
links to information which could be used in the project.
In the
afternoon we spent time working on the magazine, flyer and Eco fashion show and
toolkit at the college Priory Campus..
On the
third day (Thursday), seen hairdressers having a tour of the salons and hair or
beauty appointments whilst Multi-print media graphics printing and design
company owner Jay provided a tour of
his business premises for the media graphics staff and students and made them
most welcome.
Thursday
afternoon was spent in Edinburgh where some chose to see a show whilst others
shopped or visited the castle and other tourist attractions.
On the
fourth day (Friday) the last day seen us evaluate the week and Eva presented on Holland in preparation
for the next trip in October.
The week
was a great success where lots of work had taken place on the show, magazine,
flyers and toolkit. Old friendships were
revived and new ones made and we all agreed that we are all on target to “make
a difference” through this sustainability focused project.
I look
forward to the next trip to Holland and to working to meet the aims of this
valuable and very worthwhile project.
