DSKD is a design university from Kolding, Denmark. It is an independent institution under the Danish Ministry for Higher Education and Science. It produces undergraduate degrees in the areas of Fashion and textiles, communication design, industrial design, accessory design. The postgraduate or MA programme offers degrees in Design for People, Design for Planet and Design for Play. The school has around 350 active students including ph.d. students and around 100 staff including guest lecturers.

Kolding School of Design is a place where creative minds gather to immerse themselves in craftsmanship, art and research. DSKD has workshops that are open 24/7 and an international setting. DSKD is grounded in reality and develop solutions in collaboration with start-ups as well as large companies. DSKD explores how to live and how to create positive change. DSKD tries to solve problems and envision new possibilities because the world is calling for change. For sustainability, community and a good life for everyone. So, it's not just about filling our lives with more stuff but about improving what already is. Making it more beautiful, functional, playful and appealing. It's about listening to people's needs and including them in the development of new solutions.

This focus on practical or applied design and solutions is highly relevant to Me-You-Us, where the focus is on practicable solutions and ways to improve ours and our partners’ education programmes. The main part of DSKD’s project activities is based in the school’s acknowledged Fashion and Textiles department, with key input from the graduate Design for Play department. DSKD’s Fashion and Textiles Department is regularly listed in the worldwide top 50 of fashion education programmes and was placed at no. 44 at the 2021 list (CEOWORLD magazine, 2021). And as the magazine put it - “Fashion is as intimate as personal style and as global as the vast, multi-trillion dollar garment industry”. DSKD’s fashion designers believe that we can contribute towards a greener garment industry through its education activities with the fashion designers of the future.

The project effort is headed by Ulla Ræbild and Christel Arnevik, who are seasoned teachers, researchers and design thinkers. Ræbild is Associate Professor and Ph.D. specializing in Fashion Design education and expanding fashion design practice. She has done extensive work, including a number of research publications, on the effects of the ‘fast fashion’ industry trend and its harmful effects on the environment, workers in 3rd world countries and its unsustainable long-term prospects. Arnevik is Programme Manager of Fashion Design at DSKD. She has been an independent fashion designer for 26 years and meanwhile has used her expertise and know-how to teach students fashion and textile design for the last 20 years.

Ræbild and Arnevik both see in digital design prototyping an opportunity to reach the fashion designers of the future and inculcate in them a more sustainable approach to fashion design, which looks to environmentally friendly ways of production, sustainable business models and a more ethical consumer culture to ensure that the fashion industry can achieve a green transition while staying profitable.