FAIREE Symposium 2026
Introduction
Fashion Artificial Intelligence Research, Enterprise and Education, London, 11-12 Jun 2026; Deadline 10 Apr
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Posted by: Suraksha Gupta
FAIREE
Fashion Artificial Intelligence Research, Enterprise and Education Hub
Third International FAIREE Symposium 2026
Ethics for Fashion AI: Navigating the Techno-Sustainability Paradox
11 June 2026 (online)
12 June 2026 (inperson)
London College of Fashion, University of the Arts, London
The Fashion Artificial Intelligence Research, Education and Enterprise (FAIREE) Hub at University of the Arts, London is a cross-disciplinary initiative that brings together researchers, educators, and industry partners to examine how artificial intelligence is transforming the fashion system. FAIREE connects expertise across fashion business, design, and technology to advance rigorous, responsible, and forward-looking scholarship that responds to the evolving needs of the global fashion industry.
FAIREE invites contributions to its shared vision for the future of academic knowledge on fashion and AI, with a focus on research excellence, knowledge exchange, and real-world impact. At its Third International Symposium, to be held at the London College of Fashion campus, the Hub welcomes papers, projects, and critical discussions that explore how AI can shape innovation, sustainability, creativity, and governance in fashion. The symposium aims to provide a collaborative platform for scholars and practitioners to exchange ideas, build partnerships, and contribute to an inclusive and impactful research agenda for AI-enabled fashion futures.
Call for Papers
As Artificial Intelligence (AI) becomes increasingly integral to Fashion, the ethical dimensions of its design, deployment, and impact mandate urgent attention. The Third International FAIREE Symposium 2026 focuses on Ethics for Fashion AI, critically examining how ethical frameworks can guide responsible innovation within the global fashion ecosystem. The symposium invites reflection on how AI reshapes creativity, labour, sustainability, and cultural expression, and how ethical principles such as fairness, accountability, inclusivity, and transparency can mitigate the techno-sustainability paradox that challenges todays fashion industry.
Context and Rationale
The rapid proliferation of Fashion AI (FAI) offers both opportunities and dilemmas. While predictive analytics, generative design tools, and virtual sampling promise efficiency and sustainability, their ethical blind spots threaten to amplify existing inequities, creative homogenization, and environmental exploitation (Giovanola et al. 2023; Du & Chunyan, 2021). Algorithmic fashion design risks narrowing aesthetic diversity by replacing human experimentation with data-driven uniformity (S瓣rm瓣kari & V瓣nsk瓣, 2022; Huang et al. 2024; Rockett et al. 2025). Moreover, sustainability gains from AI-driven supply chain management and 3D prototyping are often accessible only to digitally advanced enterprises (Murugesan et al. 2024), while fast algorithmic design cycles paradoxically accelerate overproduction and waste (Sharma & Sharma, 2024). Even technological solutions like blockchain may obscure rather than reveal ethical complexities, offering an illusion of accountability that can conceal labour exploitation or cultural appropriation (Sangal et al. 2025). Unchecked ethics washing undermines trust and damages the credibility of fashion brands operating across global, interconnected supply chains.
Beyond production, AI-driven automation raises profound ethical concerns around the displacement of designers and artisans, as well as the erosion of creative authorship. Generative algorithms capable of producing derivative designs from copyrighted works challenge the moral and legal definition of artistic ownership. Simultaneously, biased data inputs perpetuate discriminatory standards of beauty, body type, and identity (Daniels & Gupta, 2025), while opaque data practices threaten consumer privacy and autonomy (Gon癟alves et al. 2024). Addressing these challenges requires a shared commitment to Ethics for Fashion AI an interdisciplinary effort uniting technologists, designers, policymakers, and philosophers to envision AI systems that respect human values, creativity, and ecological balance.
Themes and Topics of Interest
We welcome multidisciplinary conceptual, empirical, case based, industry reports completed or work-in-progress submissions that advance ethical discourse and practice in AI-driven fashion. Topics include (but are not limited to):
- Ethical frameworks for responsible Fashion AI
- Algorithmic fairness, transparency, and accountability in design and production
- Cultural representation, inclusivity, and bias in fashion datasets
- The ethics of automation, creativity, and artistic ownership
- Privacy, surveillance, and data ethics in fashion personalization
- Ethical governance and regulation of Fashion AI systems
- Human-AI collaboration and augmented creativity
- Ethics of digital labour, intellectual property, and AI-authored works
- Techno-sustainability paradox: AI, waste, and overproduction
- Brand integrity, reputation, and ethics washing in AI-driven fashion
- Global justice, decolonial perspectives, and the digital divide in Fashion AI
- Educational frameworks for ethical fashion technology
Submission Guidelines
Authors are invited to submit extended abstracts of approximately 1,000 words with up to six keywords, in Arial 12-point font as a pdf document using justified format for the paragraphs and APA style for referencing with names and affiliation(s) of author(s). Submissions should clearly articulate relevant:
- Research purpose and objectives
- Novelty and significance
- Methodology and theoretical grounding
- Key findings or anticipated contributions
- Ethical implications and impact
We encourage contributions in the format explained in the next section, from academics, practitioners, policymakers, and doctoral researchers engaging with Fashion AI through ethical, creative, or critical lenses. Accepted papers will receive further information about guidelines for presenting their work.
Key Dates
- Conference Dates: 11 and 12 June 2026
- Abstract Submission Opens: 10 February 2026
- Abstract Submission Deadline: 10 April 2026
- Notification of Acceptance: 20 April 2026
- Early Bird Registration Deadline: 1 May 2026
- Register by: 25 May 2026
Publication Opportunities
Abstracts submitted for oral or poster presentation will be published as Proceedings of the FAIREE Symposium 2026. Based on the quality of research, a selection of papers will be invited for full submission of their paper to be considered either as a book chapter for an edited book or as a research article by a journal. The full papers selected for invitation to submit will go through the review process specified by editors of respective academic outlet.
Symposium Venue: East Bank Campus, London College of Fashion, University of Arts, London
Symposium Director: Dr Suraksha Gupta, Professor of Marketing, Fashion Business School and Head, FAIREE, UAL
Organising Committee:
Dr Arnab Banerjee, Lecturer, Fashion Business School
Dr Satya Banerjee, Sr Lecturer and Course Leader, Fashion Business School, UAL
Andy Lee, Learning and Teaching Innovation Lead, School of Media and Communications, UAL
Mikha Mekler, Assoc Dean Knowledge Exchange, School of Design and Technology, UAL
Contact us: fairee@fashion.arts.ac.uk
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