Portfolio & Final Collection (Dalian)

Learning Outcomes

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• generate ideas and solve problems independently
• independently identify appropriate aims for professional practice and employability
• communicate ideas professionally and effectively in a variety of formats
• present your work appropriately in a professional context

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• challenge the conceptual and technical practices of fashion design
• further develop your personal design identity by critically assessing realised outcomes
• Make independent critical judgments in the selection and use of ideas, materials, and techniques
• apply enquiry and reflection enabling you to critically evaluate your work

Knowledge and Understanding

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

• an in-depth understanding of your specialist discipline encompassing design, industry practices, theory and collection formulation
• contemporary fashion practice
• how to apply fashion concepts, techniques, and processes

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• resolve conceptual and technical problems in the production and realisation of garments, products and collections
• Select, plan, organise and realise your final collection to a professional standard
• Confidently use specialist machines and equipment to a professional level
• Identify an individual approach to fashion design through the realisation of practical work ready for presentation

This module enables you to develop your work from experimentation to the production of synthesised outcomes. You will direct and realise your ideas through forms of visual presentation and structure that are relevant to the concepts and practical requirements of a high level conceptual fashion design collection. Through evaluation and selection of your work for exposure to an audience, this module focuses on planning and producing work that is critically informed. The module represents the culmination of your study. Accordingly, you will be guided to combine and apply the knowledge and understanding acquired in all elements of the programme, towards the completion of your final assignment.

You will present your Final Collection as an exhibition of garments supported by a development portfolio.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include

• Project briefing
• Seminars
• tutorials
• group critiques
• workshops

Learning activities include

• Formative feedback
• seminars
• group critiques
• tutorials
• peer group learning
• Self-evaluation
• Exhibition

Resources & Reading list

Internet Resources

The Academic Skills Library page for study skills support.

Blackboard.

Harvard citing and referencing support including citethemright online resource.

Academic Integrity support.

Study Skills Workshops.

Textbooks

Bono, E. ((1990)). Lateral thinking: A textbook of creativity. London:: Penguin.

Aldrich, W. (2013)). Fabrics and Pattern Cutting.. London:: John Wiley & Sons.

Blanckaert, P. & Hernu, A.R. ((2013)). Icons of Vintage Fashion.. New York:: Abrams.

Black. S ((2012). Eco Fashion- the Fashion Paradox.. Routledge.

Cheney, N. & McAllister, H. ( ((2013)). Textile Surface Manipulation. London:: Bloomsbury Publishing.

Briggs-Goode, A. ((2013)). Printed Textile Design.. London:: Laurence King.

Braun-Feldweg Förderpreis. W. ((2010)). Slow Fashion: Alternative Fashion Concepts.. Niggli Verlag.

Bourdieu, P.. Distinction: A social critique of the Judgement of Taste.. Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.

Bradley,Q. ((2002)). Techno fashion.. Oxford:: Berg Publishers.

Formative

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

Portfolio Development

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: The purpose of formative feedback is to enhance your learning, help you understand how your work is developing and how you can improve it in the future. There are no marks attached to formative assessment and it will not count towards your final mark. You will receive feedback through seminars, tutorials and critiques. You will also receive a Formative Assessment Feedback Sheet with written comments.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

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.