Creative Design Interpretations | ARTD1145

Module overview

This module introduces you to Creative Design Interpretations across Textiles, which considers the principles of the programme - Sustainability, Luxury and Ethical Artisanship in relation to Textiles. You will creatively interpret the contexts, theory, techniques and materials introduced in the adjacent module ‘The Principles of Sustainability, Luxury and Artisanship’ across knit, weave, print, embroidery, quilting, embellishment, felting and dyeing textiles through a series of creative design and making workshops. You will explore and play with colour and dyeing, fibres and yarns and get a feel for the diversity of fabric textures, effects and uses. This module allows you to explore your creativity, experiment with materials, and visually interpret inspirations, objects, images, pattern and structures. You will make artworks, sketches, photographs and learn how to interpretate these into creative textile designs and structures. This module will provide you with digital resources and training workshops to develop your digital skills for different purposes. You will learn about academic study, research and referencing, integrity, critical thinking and reflective practice. You will research, collect, record and interpret to generate original creative design ideas for textiles.

Aims and Objectives

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Identify strengths and weaknesses in your academic skills

Knowledge and Understanding

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

Ideas, objects, theories and makers that have informed the discipline in a global context

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Demonstrate creativity through drawing, visualisation and design development.

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

Test ideas through critical reflection using a variety of physical and digital sources

Syllabus

This module allows you to play, experiment, explore your own creativity and interpret your visual research into textile design idea’s. You will consider the principles, theory and contexts of sustainability, luxury and ethical artisanship in your creative design development work and produce artwork, patterns and colourings informed by global historical, heritage, contemporary and innovative inspirational design, materials, techniques and processes. This module works together with ‘The Principles of Sustainability, Luxury and Artisanship’ module. You will learn how to research and collect inspirational images and objects, then interpret these through a range of drawing and art practices, digital visualisations, textile materials and structures. You will learn how to keep sketchbooks and journals as well as make moodboards, storyboards, colourways and fabrications. You will keep technical folders with samples and specifications to demonstrate your creative experimentation and interpretations from your sketchbooks, moodboards and fabrications. You will explore the world of Textile design, the creatives, makers and influencers to understand the diversity and opportunities in the field of textiles. You will evaluate your own digital skills and through development workshops in the digital labs, you will explore, experiment and develop your skills using a variety of digital tools, media and technologies for design, research, visualisations and promotional presentation materials. This module will introduce you to making digital presentations and promoting your idea’s through verbal presentations to gain feedforward advice and suggestions to develop your design work. This module will introduce you to understanding about copyright, citation, design integrity and academic integrity, how to interpret research resources to create your own original work and how to reference the images and texts of those sources and start to develop and strengthen your academic study skills. You will receive regular formative assessment with verbal and written feedback and feedforward to enable you to assemble a portfolio of experimental creative design work to demonstrate your learning through the year. This module will induct and train you how to use machines and equipment safely, and work responsibly and professionally, in the studio and workshops.

Learning and Teaching

Teaching and learning methods

•Studio Practice •Weekly Briefings •Workshops •Group tutorials, reviews and presentations •Individual tutorials and formative feedforward •Induction and health & safety training •How-to video’s and resources on Bb •Design insight from creative guest speakers •Research and Critical Thinking workshops •Textile Technical workshops and practice •Library tour and introduction to reference sources •Digital Skills workshops, training, and practice (JISC) •Photography Workshops •Academic study skills and research methods workshops •Field Trips •Self-Study

Study time
Type	Hours
Independent Study	200
Supervised time in studio/workshop	40
Teaching	60
Total study time	300

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

General Resources. 1. The Student Hub for advice and support 24/7 General Resource Description: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/studentservices/index.page 2. I-Solutions for digital support General Resource Description: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/isolutions/students/index.page 3. JISC Digital Capabilities General Resource Description: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/BuildingDigitalCapabilities/SitePages/Student-Help-Guide.aspx 4. Blackboard Ultra General Resource Description: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/BlackboardUltra/SitePages/About-Blackboard-Ultra.aspx Module announcements, assessment material, weekly resources, relevant reading lists and to specific projects will be listed on the project brief/s and available on blackboard. Additional resources will be signposted on Blackboard 5. Virtual Learning Environment and VPN General Resource Description: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/IT/SitePages/Services/SouthamptonVirtualEnvironment.aspx https://knowledgenow.soton.ac.uk/Articles/KB0011610 6. Library General Resource Description: https://library.soton.ac.uk/homepage 7. The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support: General Resource Description: http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash 8. LinkedIn Learning General Resource Description: https://sotonac.sharepoint.com/teams/LinkedInLearningatSouthampton 9. Digital Learning resource for students to access digital support General Resource Description: https://www.southampton.ac.uk/digital-learning/index.page 10. Academic Integrity issues: General Resource Description: http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/what-is-academic-integrity 11. Harvard citing and referencing systems, including cite-them-right online resource: General Resource Description: http://library.soton.ac.uk/sash/referencing

Internet Resources

The Textile Society.

Crafts Council.

Sustainable Luxury Magazine.

Innovation in Textiles.

The Artisan Magazine.

Eco Textile.

The Walpole.

Positive Luxury.

Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

The Textile Institute:.

Business of Fashion.

Heritage Crafts.

The Future Laboratory.

Bain.

Textbooks

Bolton, Andrew (2016). Manus x machina: fashion in an age of technology. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Campbell, Sarah (2023). Hand Painted Textiles: A Practical Guide to the Art of Painting on Fabric. Bloomsbury, Herbert Press.

Draper, Jean (2013). Stitch and structure: design and technique in two and three-dimensional textiles. London: Batsford.

Nichol, Karen (2012). Embellished. ABC Black.

Thittichai, Kim (2009). Experimental textiles: design, materials, and technique. London: Batsford.

Wolff, Colette (1996). The Art of Manipulating Fabric. Penguin Publishing Group.

Assessment

Formative

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

Critical review

Assessment Type: Formative
Feedback: •Feedforward will be provided on research activities and collections, sketchbooks, moodboards, fabrications, reflective journals and video diary, swatches, technical folders, digital visualisations, integrity and referencing skills. You will need to demonstrate sound research methods, evidence of research theory and contexts, knowledge of inspirational and influential creatives, and experimentation, creativity, design interpretation and development from your research practice.
Final Assessment: No
Group Work: No

Summative

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

Referral

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

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%

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.

Breakdown
Method	Percentage contribution
Portfolio	100%