The 7 Complex Lessons from Edgar Morin Applied in Fashion Design Education for Sustainability Fernanda Enéia Schulz (B ) , Luiza Honorato Freire , and Joana Luisa Ferreira Loureço da Cunha Universidade do Minho, Campus de Azurém, Guimarães, Portugal ferschulz.design@gmail.com Abstract. This article discusses the role of the University and the importance of transdisciplinary schooling in the education of Fashion Design. Its approach is based on the seven complex lessons proposed by the French anthropologist and sociologist Edgar Morin, which suggests the existence of seven fundamental problems in this century’s education system at all levels. By understanding the need of a more direct and effective approach to sustainability on Fashion Design education and focusing on the training of designers capable of dealing with the challenges of fashion industry and society, we aim, with this article, to show how sustainability could be presented in a transdisciplinary way on education of Fashion Design and following the seven complex lessons proposed by Morin. This seven complex lessons focus on detecting error and illusion, the principles of pertinent knowledge, teaching the human condition, earth identity, confronting uncertainties, understanding each other and ethics for the human genre, taking to this discussion about Fashion education, therefore this article was written using references and examples from Fashion Design. Keywords: Transdisciplinary learning · Seven complex lessons · Sustainability in fashion 1 Introduction Even though a specific date that indicates the separation between the artisanal and the industrial is not known, it is known that Design emerged as a result of three historical episodes that took place in the 19 th and 20 th centuries, namely industrialization, modern urbanization and globalization [1]. These three milestones, which were part of the Indus- trial Revolution, were responsible for tremendous changes in society, having changed the system that was in force at the time to a system where greater production was possible at a lower cost, making it possible for the population to have access to consumption with greater ease. The post-industrial period was responsible for the development of several areas, one of which was the expansion of cities, which can be considered one of the agents that led knowledge to develop and move from a predominantly domestic area to a public field. © The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023 D. Raposo et al. (Eds.): EIMAD 2022, SSDI 25, pp. 193–208, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09659-4_15