A clearer way to decide
Guide students through the thinking behind a project, from their initial intentions to materials, production, and what happens after use.
Forgeco · Responsible fashion education
Better design decisions start with better questions.
Forgeco is building a structured decision-making system to strengthen responsible design practice in fashion education—helping students think through the impact of what they make.
Purpose in every choice
Design
with care
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FORGECO / PURPOSEStructured thinking for fashion
Our purpose
Strengthening responsible design practice in fashion education through a structured decision-making system.
The idea behind Forgeco
Make responsible thinking part of the design process.
Fashion students make choices with lasting consequences. Our work supports a more considered process, with space to question decisions, reflect on impact, and learn from each project.
Learning through questions
RDRS offers awareness, trade-off, scenario, improvement, and evaluation prompts to help students examine their choices.
Teachers and students, connected
SIGS makes project inputs clearer, while teacher tools support assignments, progress tracking, submission review, and assessment.
The RDRS framework
Ten perspectives on responsible design.
Rather than treating responsibility as a final checklist, RDRS connects a student’s project context to the responsibility areas most relevant to their decisions. Structured Input Guidance (SIGS) helps students describe their concept, user, materials, production, and intent with clarity.
EnvironmentalSocialCulturalPsychologicalEconomicDurabilityLifecycleProductionTransparencyEnd of life
The classroom platform
Meet DesignWise, by Forgeco.
DesignWise brings the research-based Responsible Design Reflection System (RDRS) into a classroom workflow for teachers and students.
A Forgeco product
DesignWise
The Responsible Design Reflection System guides students through context-specific reflection across ten responsibility pillars. Structured Input Guidance (SIGS) helps them describe their concept, intended user, materials, production, and design intent before reflecting.
- Teachers create assignments and share a join code
- Structured Input Guidance helps students provide useful project context
- Students receive context-specific prompts across ten responsibility pillars
- Teachers review submissions, track progress, and award marks
- Admins manage users, assignments, and platform activity
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Project reflection STUDENT WORKFashion design
Guided reflection
Guided reflection
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Design projectStudent workspace
Consider the full life of your design.
Reflect on your material choices, who your work is for, and what could happen after use.
Reflect on your material choices, who your work is for, and what could happen after use.
DesignWiseby Forgeco
Smarter decisions for responsible fashion design.
Analyse. Reflect. Report. A classroom platform for fashion education.
🎓 Students
Join assignments with a code, complete projects, and create responsible design reports.
📋 Teachers
Create assignments, track progress, review submissions and award marks.
🛡 Admins
Full platform visibility — manage users, assignments, and analytics.