Module: FDE5003-40 Period Fashion for Design Innovation

Level: 5

Credit Value: 40

Module Tutor: Louise Pickles

Module Tutor Contact Details: l.pickles@bathspa.ac.uk

1. Brief description and aims of module:

This module provides you with the opportunity to apply your creativity and develop your technical skills, as well as develop your personal design practice through a self-directed project initiated at the Fashion Museum Bath. You will also work as a team to plan and organise an exhibition of the project outcomes.

2.Outline syllabus:

In this module, you will be encouraged to take creative risks, to experiment and explore your design identity by employing critically evaluated and focussed creative research. You will be encouraged to develop an increased awareness of the significance of cultural and historical contexts for the understanding of clothing through extensive object analysis and extended research and use this to develop creative and innovative contemporary fashion outcomes, developing ideas through the interpretation of traditional techniques with new technologies.

You will be encouraged to develop appropriate fabrications within a defined context, critically evaluate the practical solutions associated with three-dimensional interpretation, and employ project management skills.

You will build on your technical knowledge through demonstrations and workshops in drape, and be encouraged to express ideas in an increasingly confident and creative way both visually, two and three dimensionally, and verbally. You will have opportunity to further develop your skills in design, product development and evaluating and adapting designs through dialogue, toiling and fitting.

This module is also an opportunity to work productively as part of a team.

3.Teaching and learning activities:

• Demonstrations and taught sessions

• Presentations to staff

• Group and individual tutorials and critical reviews

• Seminars

• Facilitated Fashion Museum session

• Personal presentation, documentation of work

• Independent working on directed project work

• Active participation in taught sessions and directed learning.

Assessment Item 1:

• Assessment Type: Course Work

• Description: Portfolio

• % Weighting: 100%