Textile Design: Directions

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• work and use machines and equipment safely and professionally in the studios and workshops
• apply a variety of practical skills effectively and professionally in the making and finalisation of your work
• evidence the practical development of your work in an organised way and resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production of design collections, protoypes and where applicable, products
• identify an individual and ambitious approach to the discipline through the realisation of practical work to a professional standard

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• how to apply the methods, techniques and technologies that you have learnt to realise your ideas creatively
• industry practice, professional design and the location of your work within a relevant market level informed by your research.
• how to relate your practice to the professional context of textile design
• how to utilise sources to further your design development
• an in-depth understanding of your specialist pathway which includes innovative concepts and how professional, cultural and technological changes impact on textile design

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• study independently, manage your time effectively and produce work to set deadlines
• demonstrate innovative approaches to engagement with professional practice and employability opportunities.
• present your work appropriately in a professional manner
• communicate ideas effectively to a more advanced level using a variety of formats
• identify, select and draw upon a wide range of subject specific, printed and digital sources to inform and challenge your thinking

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials, techniques and processes
• challenge the conceptual and technical boundaries of your discipline
• use your critical analysis effectively to develop a considered and coherent body of work
• apply advanced methods of enquiry, and reflection to select and edit your work to relate to your specialist context

Textile Design: Directions builds on your experiences in Part 1 and 2, by providing a focus through which you can begin to hone your skills, ideas and working methods into ambitious outcomes appropriate to your specialism. Emphasis will be on analysis and the evaluation of your ideas and practice. Greater critical thinking will help you recognise the strengths and weaknesses of what you are producing.

You will be encouraged to be highly independent and self-motivated, and to be ambitious and confident in the presentation of your work. Originality, coherence and detailed understanding of how to apply specific media and techniques, will be evidenced, by the production of complex design outcomes.

Students will produce textile collections aimed at a relevant industry context, fashion, interiors or surface decoration supported by a professionally presented portfolio..The quality and depth of contextual awareness will be to a higher level than previous presented.

The work and outcomes of this module inform and influence the focus and thinking of the Final Major Project.

Teaching methods include:

• Project Briefings
• Group tutorials and discussions
• One-to-one tutorials
• Critical Reviews
• Seminars
• Creative and technical workshops
• Technical demonstrations
• Visual presentations
• Career and Employability seminars
• Industry insight from guest speakers

Learning activities include:

• Creative portfolio development
• Drawing and portfolio presentation workshops
• Research and concept development workshops
• Creative design and technical workshops
• Self-selected workshop and practice learning
• School resource based learning
• Seminars
• Optional study visits
• Peer group learning
• Group critiques
• Formative self-assessment
• Workshop based learning
• Study Skills Hub

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

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.