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Traditional Clothing
Goal: Contribute to a community expression of cultural fashion that represents your individual interests, cultural heritage, and cultural trends.
Goal: Contribute to a community expression of cultural fashion that represents your individual interests, cultural heritage, and cultural trends.
Role
You are a fashion designer who is part of a fashion design community. Your community is inquiring into how trends have shaped traditional clothing.
Audience
You will present your design concepts to the BHA school community through a shared exhibition of your sewing and digital design work. This community exhibition will be part of the school's Lunar New Year celebrations.
Situation
Fashion trends change based on cultural, technological, economic, and raw material factors. Shifts in fashion ideals can be tracked across time, region, economic class, and generation. Fashion helps communities express their identity and the shared features and motivators that make them separate and distinct from other communities.
Traditional fashion can also change across time and region. In modern times, the use of traditional clothing can play a role in ritual and ceremony. This could be in celebration of holidays, honoring family and ancestors, and joining in marriage.
But, some cultures continue to wear traditional clothing as part of their daily fashion. Young designers in these cultures feel more free to play with and update traditional styles.
Product
Your inquiry will focus on the development of a design concept for traditional clothing that is inspired by historic, economic, regional, technological, or generational trends.
You will present your learning experiences in a:
Inquiry Workbook portfolio documenting your process.
Traditional clothing model made in teams using a sewing machine
Design Concept poster showing off your digital design of traditional clothing
Inquiry Questions
Inquiry Questions
Statement of Inquiry:
Statement of Inquiry:
Trends in the changing form of a product can result from the changing needs of a culture or community.
Trends in the changing form of a product can result from the changing needs of a culture or community.
Global Context:
Global Context:
Personal and Cultural Expression
Specifically, we will develop an understanding of how culture is expressed through products.
Our inquiry will explore:
the history of ideas
cultural constructs and rituals
the evolution of products
Related Concepts
Related Concepts
We explore our inquiry by also focusing on:
Form: Form concerns the overall shape and configuration of a product. It relates to aspects such as aesthetics, shape, colour and texture.
Our key concept for this unit is Communities.
Communities are groups that exist in proximity defined by space, time, or relationship. Communities can include, groups of people sharing particular characteristics, beliefs or values, as well as groups of interdependent organisms living together in a specific habitat.
Communities are groups that exist in proximity defined by space, time, or relationship. Communities can include, groups of people sharing particular characteristics, beliefs or values, as well as groups of interdependent organisms living together in a specific habitat.
Students will develop an understanding that when developing solutions for individuals they may also consider the application of facets of their design to a broader community of users. Communities can also be marketed to specifically based on their unique features and attributes and a positive fit between these features and aspects of the product may lead to the success of the product in the marketplace.
Inquiry Questions
Inquiry Questions
Factual:
What is a Hanbok?
How is a Hanbok constructed?
What materials are used for a Hanbok?
Conceptual:
How is culture defined?
How does the form of a Hanbok change over time?
How can communities celebrate personal and cultural expression?
How might technology impact cultural expression?
Debatable:
Who owns a cultural artifact?
ATL Skills and Subject Knowledge
ATL Skills and Subject Knowledge
ATL SKILL: Collaboration
Practice collaborative work habits that enable interpersonal, individual, and group success.
group shared responsibility for applying textile skills
peer feedback strategies
collaboration with software provider and project team
Design: Textile Skills
Understanding the practical use of textile patterns
Application of skills with mechanical sewing
Computer-Aided Design (CAD) modeling for textiles
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