Fashion Futures

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• innovative practices, concepts and debates and different professional, cultural and technological contexts relevant to future fashion
• how to evaluate and use visual research and study skills in relevant contexts
• social, ethical and sustainable dimensions in the fashion industry

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate ideas, study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• identify, select and draw upon a range of sources including digital ones, to inform and challenge your thinking and writing
• understand and utilise appropriate academic referencing
• appropriately structure an illustrated essay to clearly communicate and discuss a theme or concept

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• inform your practice by analysing and critically reflecting on contemporary issues
• develop ideas by applying thinking informed by a context of recent approaches to the practice and theory of fashion

Fashion Futures is a Part 1 core module. It has been designed to facilitate your development of skills necessary for the critical development of well-informed contemporary art and design with a focus on fashion. The perspectives and context provided by this module can also offer a career orientation for the next stages in studying Fashion Design.

In this module, we will explore how practice is informed by context and theory. In lectures, seminars and tutorials, we will look critically at art and design objects and events with their relevant texts. We will discuss major concepts and key positions and evaluate the relevance and significance of differing perspectives in art and design, and you will apply them accordingly to Fashion Design. Through this work we will encourage you to explore practically how the current developments in art and design can inform your own fashion work.

Lectures will be used to convey representations and information on the contemporary scene of art and design, focusing on future fashion. Seminars and group discussions will allow more detailed examination of particular themes and sources.

You will be encouraged to access what material is available in the library and online to assist in gaining a wide perspective of the art and design context relevant to future fashion.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• project briefings
• lectures
• tutorials
• practical sessions/workshops

Learning activities include:

• peer group learning
• self-evaluation
• Review and revision of material provided within lectures.
• Guided independent research
• Academic writing
• Study Skills support

Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods and the planned learning outcomes

In this module learning and teaching activities focus on helping you to investigate, question and analyse the nature of contemporary art and design contexts, its theory and how this influences discipline-specific practice, including Fashion Design. Feedback on your progress and development will be given through group discussions and seminars. Informal feedback will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation. The summative assessment will be by way of an illustrated 2500 word essay.

This module’s learning and teaching methods are designed to help you broaden your understanding of contemporary issues within art and design and explore practical creative possibilities. By studying independently you will learn how to manage your time effectively outside the taught sessions.

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

Academic Integrity support http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity

Study Skills Workshops http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

Lynda.com. https://www.lynda.com/ Digital learning resource for students to access online digital support and tutorials

Blackboard. http://blackboard.soton.ac.uk Panopto lectures via Blackboard

Study Skills Workshops. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/workshops/

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash

Academic Integrity support. http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity

Library resources. http://library.soton.ac.uk/home

Textbooks

Tungate, Mark (2005). Fashion Brands: Branding Style from Armani to Zara. London: Kogan Page.

Palmer, Alexandra (2004) (2004). Old Clothes, New Looks: Second Hand Fashion. Oxford: Berg.

Fletcher, Kate (2008). Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys. London: Earthscan.

Agins, Terri (2000). The End of Fashion: How Marketing Changed the Clothing Business Forever. New York: Quill.

Barnard, Malcolm (2002). Fashion as Communication. London: Routledge.

Bruzzi, Stella and Church Gibson, Pamela (2000). Fashion Cultures: Theories, Explorations and Analysis. London: Routledge.

Lury, Celia (2011). Consumer Culture. Cambridge: Polity.

Davis, Fred (1992). Fashion, Culture and Identity, Chicago. University of Chicago Press.

Formative

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

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.

Repeat Information

Repeat type: Internal & External