83001 Fashion and Textile Design Special Project
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Credit points: 6 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Description
This subject presents students with an opportunity to study abroad and enhance their awareness of fashion and textiles within a broader cultural context. This travel experience allows students to comprehend global and cultural contexts for fashion and understand their relevance within the site-specific context of Florence, Italy. The project enriches students' understanding of creative, industrial and cultural issues for fashion, and students are inspired by Florence's history, industry and position in the global fashion context. Learning may include but is not limited to independent and self-directed activity framed by a structured program of studio-based tutorials/workshops alongside site visits and exposure to industry in Florence. Students are expected to fulfil assessment requirements that include presentations, research and design outcomes. Students require approval from the fashion and textiles course director to enrol in this subject.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Behave ethically and responsibly within communities outside of the studio. |
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| 2. | Demonstrate curiosity and understanding of international communities and cultures. |
| 3. | Generate research and creative approaches for fashion design problems inherent to Florence |
| 4. | Foster and develop an original aesthetic sensibility through working with materials and creating an accessory |
| 5. | Curate and present research in media relevant to fashion design |
| 6. | Develop a practice for fashion research outside of the studio and an enquiring approach to design |
| 7. | Collect and curate relevant research that informs your design practice |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Demonstrate an awareness of the social and ethical responsibilities of a fashion and textile designer (A.2)
- Ability to collaborate and work with others, including within diverse social and cultural contexts (C.1)
- Develop an original aesthetic sensibility (I.1)
- Demonstrate an ability to speculate, experiment, challenge boundaries and take risks (I.2)
- Analyse and synthesise knowledge in both visual and written forms to undertake in-depth research. (R.1)
- Ability to construct well-supported arguments and rationale (R.2)
- Ability to reflect on practice and research (R.3)
- Interpret complex ideas and connect them to fashion and textile practice. (R.4)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The term CAPRI is used for the five Design, Architecture and Building faculty graduate attribute categories where:
C = communication and groupwork
A = attitudes and values
P = practical and professional
R = research and critique
I = innovation and creativity.
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) are linked to these categories using codes (e.g. C-1, A-3, P-4, etc.).
Teaching and learning strategies
Studio workshops Students will particpate in studio workshops, guided by Polimoda technical and design staff, during these studio-based workshops students will learn how to work with leather materials, relevant leather working machinery, and techniques for making leather bags and accessories. These design and systems workshops are crucial in ensuring students can deploy the design thinking and technical expertise required in this subject.
Lectures Lectures will be delivered by Polimoda staff in a studio setting where student discussion and participation is encouraged. Lecture series will refer to intersections of culture and fashion inherent to Florence and that align to the subject’s overarching themes, activities and learning methods. These lecture series inform students learning and knowledge of the
Site Visits This subject will consist of several site visits which are designed to inform students understanding of the cultural, industrial and historical setting of Florence. Students are to make their own way to several locations. Site visits are supported by continual learning activities within the studio sessions and content delivered by Polimoda staff and UTS tutor for the subject.
Project Based Learning The curriculum uses project-based learning activities to provoke participatory discussions. For this reason, studio, in conjunction with the lectures, use a progressive, sequential project-based approach to design. All students are expected to attend all lecture and studio sessions, and follow suggested learning patterns and activities. Students are also encouraged to participate actively in the group discussions that occur during the studio sessions.
Formative feedback will be provided during the learning process, typically provided verbally by the subject's teaching staff. It will address the content of work and a student's approach to learning, both in general and more specific ‘assessment orientated’ terms. It is designed to help students improve their performance in time for the submission of an assessment item. For this to occur students need to respond constructively to the feedback provided. This involves critically reflecting on advice given and in response altering the approach taken to a given assessment. Formative feedback may also, on occasion, be provided by other students. It is delivered informally, either in conversation during a tutorial or in the course of discussion at the scale of the whole class. It is the student’s responsibility to record any feedback given during meetings or studio sessions.
Content (topics)
This subject will address the following issues and topics:
Fashion History
Contemporary Fashion
Aesthetics / Menswear
Craft to Business
Textile Science
Accessories Design
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Journal and Conceptual Design Development
| Intent: | Students are required to document the Global Studio across several media including a written journal and gathering of ephemera, digital images and videography. Students are also required to engage in all discussions, studios, site visits and immerse themselves within the cultural experience of being in Florence and document this. This documentation is also required to outline the development of the conceptual grounding for the object design that they will be undertaking in Assessment Task 2. Further Assessment Task details and information is outlined within the brief which is a separate document accessible on UTSonline. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 5, 6 and 7 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.2, I.2, R.1, R.3 and R.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Portfolio | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Design Outcome
| Intent: | Designed outcomes for this assessment task is a body accessory displaying a clear synthesis and sensitivity to cultural, industrial and contemporary fashion intersections that are inherent to Florence. Designed accessories are to engage with the body, be positioned within a global contemporary fashion context and call upon the skills learned in the experience of studying in Florence. Focus for this assessment task is on the conceptual underpinnings of the designed object and these are to be expanded within written and visual communication in accompanying media. Further Assessment Task details and information is outlined within the brief which is a separate document accessible on UTSonline. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 2, 3, 4, 6 and 7 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): C.1, I.1, I.2, R.1, R.2 and R.3 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Minimum requirements
The DAB attendance policy requires students to attend no less than 80% of formal teaching sessions (lectures and tutorials) for each class they are enrolled in to remain eligible for assessment.