Ethical Luxury Practice

Learning Outcomes

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Test concepts, strategies and experiments to investigate, and problem solve through effectively interacting with others and knowledge exchange

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Reflect and engage with critical feedback to enhance your work for an audience

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• How Diverse and Equitable perspectives, relating but not limited to race, ethnicity, age, disability, gender, class, faith and sexual orientation innovate and enhance civic society and social engagement

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Research, test and target your textile materials, design work and storytelling for a specific audience.

Based upon your research findings and a deepening understanding of Ethical Luxury Practice within textiles, you will build the skills to set out your core values and beliefs that will underpin your journey as a socially responsible and ethically aware textile artisan and change-maker. This module will enable you to design and make an ethically considered final project collection of sustainable, luxury textiles in the final semester. This module will support and inform your original creative concept and practice as a responsible, contemporary and professional textile artisan making a positive impact on the animals, plants, people and planet where we live and work. You will expand your knowledge and understanding of Ethical Luxury Practice for textiles through a series of lectures, talks, workshops and field trips, and discuss the issues, trends, activities and research that is going on around you in this complex, dynamic, innovative world of textiles. You will enhance your digital skills and use of generative artificial intelligence and practice these tools with consideration and responsibility. You will further develop your research, design and development skills to incorporate ethical discussion and thinking, and use these skills in choosing your materials, techniques and processes for your final project collection design and technical practice. You will conduct market research and closely examine luxury ethical designers, brands, products, manufacturers and suppliers to analyse their policies, behaviours, impacts and successes within ethical textiles. You will benefit from field trips, guest speakers and writing workshops, and be encouraged to attend subject related conferences, talks and presentations from experts and leaders in this field of ethical practice. After identifying your target audience, you will create potential client/consumer profile boards to help direct your design development. To further place your practical work in the contemporary marketplace, you will make an ethical manifesto and a detailed materials sourcing and costings plan for your final project. You will gain the skills and knowledge needed for a professional understanding of the considerations of Ethical Practice within Sustainable Luxury Textiles to further enable your career goals.

Teaching and learning methods include: •Lectures •Seminars •Workshops •Individual tutorials •Group tutorials •Primary and secondary research conducted through library research, exhibition, conference and industry visits. •Creative writing workshops •Sourcing, Costing and Procurement workshops •Digital workshops •Guest Speakers •Self-directed study

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Coursework portfolio

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: You will experience verbal and written (and recorded on request) formative feedforward during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, seminars and workshops. All formative work will contribute to the summative assessment and feedback given at the end of the semester.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.