Textile Contexts

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 textile design
• how to evaluate and use visual research and study skills in relevant contexts

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate ideas, study independently and produce work to set deadlines
• cite references and sources using the appropriate Harvard style referencing system
• identify, select and draw upon a range of sources to inform and challenge your thinking and writing

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• apply methods of enquiry and reflection, which will enable you to critically evaluate and relate ideas to an intended context.
• develop your ideas by applying thinking, informed by a context of recent approaches to the practice and theory of textiles
• inform your practice by analysing and critically reflecting on contemporary issues

Textile Contexts is a Part 1 core module. It has been designed to facilitate your development of skills necessary for the critical development of well-informed perspectives of contemporary art and design with a focus and relevance for textiles. The perspectives and context provided by this module can also offer a career orientation for the next stages in studying textile 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 textile design. Through this work we will encourage you to explore practically how the current developments in art and design can inform your own textiles work.

Lectures will be used to convey representations and information on the contemporary scene of art and design, focusing on textiles contexts. 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 textiles.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• project briefings
• lectures
• tutorials

Learning activities include:

• seminars
• tutorials
• peer group learning
• formative self-evaluation and critical reflection
• Study skills hub
• Independent research

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 Textile Design. Informal feedback will provide opportunities for peer group learning and self-evaluation. The summative assessment will be by way of an illustrated 2,000-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.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

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

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

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

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

Textbooks

Hemmings. Jessica (2014). Cultural Threads. Bloomsbury Academic.

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

Gordon. Beverly (2011). Textiles, the Whole Story: Uses, Meanings. London: Thames & Hudson.

McEvilley t (1996). Capacity: history, the world, and the self in contemporary art criticism. Amsterdam: Netherlands: G+B Arts International..

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

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

Pavitt, Jane (2008). Fear and Fashion in the Cold War. London: V&A Publications.

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

Carroll D, Ed (1998). The States of theory: history, art and critical discourse. New York: Columbia University Press..

Wood P (2002). Art in theory 1900-2000: an anthology of changing ideas. Oxford: Blackwell.

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

Benhabib Sevla (1992). Situating the self: gender, community and postmodernism in contemporary ethics. Cambridge: Polity Press.

Danto, Arthur C (1998). The wake of art: criticism, philosophy, and the ends of taste. Amsterdam: G+B Arts International..

Kocur (Z) & Leung (S). Eds. (2004). Theory in contemporary art: from 1985 to the present. Blackwell.

Gray C & Malins J (2004). Visualising Research. A Guide for Postgraduate Students in Art and Design. Ashgate.

Hemmings. Jessica (2012). The Textile Reader. Berg Publishers.

Marí B and Schaeffer Jean-Marie Eds (1998). Think art: theory and practice in the art of today. Rotterdam: Witte de With..

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