Module: TDF5004-20 Textile Focus

Level: 5

Credit Value: 20

Module Tutor: Rachael Howard

Module Tutor Contact Details: r.howard2@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module confirms and consolidates individual textile practice and allows and encourages research and exploration of possible pathways using industry event opportunities, competitions and lectures.

2.Outline syllabus:

This module is studio centred and the teaching and learning strategies employed throughout are designed to stimulate your effective use of this space and the workshops along with your ability to direct and reflect upon your own learning. Through studio based individual and group tutorials you will be encouraged to expand your research in relation to your own emerging interests. There will be a greater emphasis on your own ability to speculate, risk take, identify and evaluate the learning established through these processes in order to progress your own work.

Experimentation with a range of methods, materials and processes in order to extend your inquisitive practical and material enquiry remains key and like all the studio practice modules in the course the acquisition of new skills and the nurturing of established ones will be central and encouraged through an engagement with technical workshops and facilities.

One to one tutorials with tutors and group critiques with your peers are a fundamental part of the teaching and learning philosophy within this module. Through this dialogue you will be supported to present the methods, processes and outcomes you are exploring with a greater emphasis on your ability to reflect critically informed by your own emerging subject knowledge and understanding.

You will continue to attend, and reflect on the talks by the designers/practitioners who work with you on the course, along with lectures or workshops by other designers and professionals.

3.Teaching and learning activities:

• Briefings

• Inductions

• Presentations

• Tutorials

• International study visit or UK equivalent

• Self-Initiated Organisational and Time Planning

• Teamwork

• Social Network Referencing

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Portfolio Presentation

• % Weighting: 90%

Assessment Item 2:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Visual and Verbal Presentation

• % Weighting: 10%