Module overview
This module challenges you to critically apply sustainable improvement within a dynamic fashion industry. Emphasizing both traditional and digital processes, the module encourages experimentation to reimagine garment design sustainably, promoting fashion technology and innovation, treasured heritage practices, reduced environmental impact and ethical production. Skills-based workshops and sessions supporting creative design, research and industry insight will prepare you to embrace sustainability to shape the future of the fashion industry.
Aims and Objectives
Learning Outcomes
Subject Specific Practical Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Make independent critical judgements in the selection and use of ideas, materials and techniques suitable to set sustainable focused projects
- Select and experiment with materials, techniques and processes relevant to sustainable fashion practice
Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Formulate a range of ideas using relevant industry processes and methodologies.
Transferable and Generic Skills
Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:
- Employ effective and informed visual methods of presentation and communication
Knowledge and Understanding
Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:
- The major developments in your practice and how practitioners combine skills and technologies to innovate
Syllabus
This module delves into sustainable design, prompting you to critically reflect on your current practices and identify avenues for sustainable improvement.
Through engaging in debates on fashion futures, you explore ethical, technological, and heritage aspects of fashion design to redefine fashion sustainability. Technical workshops offer hands-on experience with traditional and digital processes, encouraging you to experiment and innovate. Using industry-relevant software, you will create garments while assessing potential construction impact. Practical workshops cover pattern cutting, garment construction, and creative exercises on digital technologies and visual communication. Lectures, seminars, and tutorials provide critical exploration of fashion design contexts, enriching your understanding and preparing you for careers that integrate sustainable practices.
Throughout the module, you will engage in low-impact production methods like zero-waste, upcycling, and reconstruction, along with circular design strategies.
Learning and Teaching
Teaching and learning methods
•Lectures and visual presentations
•Seminars and tutorial discussions
•Research workshops
•Design development workshops
•Garment pattern cutting workshops
•Garment construction workshops
•Digital technologies and processes
•One-to one tutorials
•Small group discussion and learning
•Formative self-evaluation
•Guided independent research
•Peer group learning
•Presentation
•Study skills hub
•Critical reviews
| Type | Hours |
|---|---|
| Independent Study | 242 |
| Teaching | 58 |
| Total study time | 300 |
Assessment
Formative
This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.
Critical review
- Assessment Type: Formative
- Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback.
- Final Assessment: No
- Group Work: No
Summative
This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Referral
This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |
Repeat
An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.
| Method | Percentage contribution |
|---|---|
| Portfolio | 100% |