Course Units: Block 1 (Weeks 1-15)
Diagnostic and Development Project (40 Credits)
In the dynamic world of fashion technology, creative design thrives on a profound and individualized understanding of research, drawing inspiration from diverse sources. Becoming an innovative designer within this cutting-edge industry necessitates the ability to interpret information, embrace calculated risks, and explore unconventional pathways throughout the design process. This unit, rooted in practical application, is designed to observe and challenge your utilization of both established and novel research, design, and technical methodologies. The aim is to cultivate a deeper understanding of your values as a designer in the realm of fashion technology. By introducing varied approaches to research and design, this unit fosters an experimental and reflective mindset, crucial for comprehending design briefs centered around fashion products and technological integration.
Fashion Practice and Critical Contexts (20 Credits)
The fashion industry stands as a significant domain of cultural production, circulating highly symbolic items across interconnected networks of creation and consumption. Success in this field, particularly within fashion technology, demands a high degree of self-awareness and an intuitive grasp of the aesthetic, social, and political landscapes in which fashion is created and disseminated. This unit provides you with the opportunity to delve into fashion within its broader cultural and historical contexts, as well as the emerging technological contexts, and to establish a theoretical foundation that informs your design practice. You will master the application of academic and visual research techniques to decipher contemporary issues in fashion practice and to contextualize them through cultural and critical theory, alongside the lens of technological advancements and impacts.
Course Units: Block 2 (Weeks 16-30)
Negotiated Major Project (60 Credits)
This culminating unit serves to solidify the critical, conceptual, and experimental thinking cultivated in the preceding block. It presents a valuable opportunity for you to conceive, investigate, and execute a personalized and comprehensive practice-based fashion outcome, deeply rooted in technology. You will be expected to propose and critically evaluate your project objectives, justifying any potential innovation within the fashion technology industry. This justification should encompass both the tangible outputs of your project and the methods employed for their presentation.
Throughout this project, you will continuously refine your aesthetic sensibilities, critically reflecting on your preferences and inclinations as a practitioner while embracing the challenges inherent in your chosen brief. Visual research methods will be explored in direct relation to your studio practice, empowering you to present a self-directed and professional project with relevant fashion technology outcomes. Your work will serve as evidence of your proficiency in structuring, managing, and orchestrating a cohesive professional deliverable. Through rigorous evaluation and reflection on your learning journey and acquired skills, you can strategically orient this project towards postgraduate studies, direct entry into the fashion technology industry, or the pursuit of personal entrepreneurial ventures.
Course structure
The information outlined is an indicative structure of the course. Whilst we will aim to deliver the course as described on this page, there may be situations where it is desirable or necessary for the University to make changes in course provision, for example because of regulatory requirements or operational efficiencies, before or after enrolment. If this occurs, we will communicate all major changes to applicants and students who have either applied or enrolled on the course.
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