Fashion DIET: Costume design for the children’s musical "Alice in Wonderland" (PDF)

The topic of the lesson is costume design for the children’s musical "Alice in Wonderland" as an example of project-oriented lesson design with ESD as a guiding perspective. Vocational school students developed ideas and designs for costumes for the musical and partially designed them. The focus of the designs was on sustainability-oriented work as a guiding principle. The lesson has six modules: 1) Introduction to the topic, reading the script, listing the roles, character description, brainstorming, 2) Sifting through the existing / fundus, 3) Ideation: developing drafts + drawing sketches + modelling, 4) Planning and preparation of the designs’ implementation, 5) Realisation of the costumes and 6) Musical Performance: make-up, hairdressing, and dressing of the performers.