Professional Practice in Textile Design

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• employ a critical approach to your practical skills in order to develop more refined and resolved design outcomes
• utilise a wide range of learning resources including digital skills to inform your practice
• utilise presentation skills in an increasingly professional way
• study independently and manage your time effectively, work to deadlines
• communicate ideas effectively in a variety of written, visual and digital formats

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• industry practice and professional design and different market levels informed by your research.
• how to utilise sources to further your design development
• how to apply the skills needed to practice professionally in textile design

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• test, evaluate and develop your creative ideas and practical skills within your discipline
• use your research to develop higher levels of resolved ideas to align with the textile industry
• apply methods of enquiry and critical evaluation to demonstrate your ideas

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• explore and apply materials, techniques and processes, to a higher level and relevant industry context
• work and use machines and equipment safely in the studios and workshops with increased competence
• evidence your progression of increasingly ambitious experimentation.

This module represents the next step in the development of your independent learning. You will be encouraged to engage with industry or competition-led projects to enable greater knowledge and understanding of your textile design specialism.

You will be encouraged to focus your ideas, experiment extensively, selecting and engaging with a variety of methods and techniques. Using your practical skills in a more ambitious and refined manner will enable your work to develop in a more professional direction.

You will produce a portfolio of work that demonstrates your experimental processes, creative ideas and industry applications and textile collections with supporting documentation for an intended market or application, such as fashion or interiors. This module will encapsulate preparations for industry expectations.

You have the option to choose the Study Exchange Module in place of this core module.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• Group tutorials and discussions
• One-to-one tutorials
• Critical Reviews
• Seminars
• Creative workshops
• Technical demonstrations
• Visual presentations
• Project briefings
• Industry insight from guest speakers

Learning activities include:

• Creative portfolio work development
• Creative project led workshops
• Peer group learning
• Group critiques
• Self-assessment
• Technical workshop based Learning
• Optional study visits
• Study Skills Hub

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 direct your exploration and investigation of your ideas. Lectures and seminars led by staff and visiting lecturers and self-selected workshops will increase your knowledge of the contemporary context in which you are working and help you develop confidence in your ability to experiment with your discipline-specific ideas for industry, challenge known solutions and encourage unexpected outcomes. Through practical experimentation and feedback on your ideas informed by contemporary practice in your specialism, you will create increasingly personal work, shaped by analysis and self-reflection.

Resources & Reading list

General Resources

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

Digital Learning resource for students to access digital support and tutorials. www.lynda.com

WSA Creative Services: Students can access a wide range of 2D and 3D printing and laser cut facilities..

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 An on-going relevant reading list to specific projects will be listed on the project brief/s and available on blackboard

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

Textbooks

Clarke, S, (2011). Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.

Briggs-Goode. A (2013). Printed Textile Design. Laurence King Publications.

Russell Alex (2011). The Fundementals of Printed Textile Design. AVA Academia.

Donofrio-Ferrezza, Lisa (2008). Designing a knitwear collection: from inspiration to finished garments. Fairchild Books.

Quinn, Bradley (2009). Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge. Laurence King.

Brown Carol (2013). Knitwear Design. London: Laurence King.

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 Information

Repeat type: Internal