STUDY PROGRAMME
Scenography

AFAM CODE
ABPR32

DISCIPLINARY AREA
Costumes for performing arts

DISCIPLINARY FIELD
Costume design

CREDITS
6

APPROACH
Theoretical/project based

The course provides the students with a basic method to design dresses starting from moodboard, identification of an event’s theme, and development of sketches. The project goes through all the phases from sampling to manufacture, including the creation of accessories, decoration and jewellery. Particular attention is devoted to the graphic presentation and to the techniques used for the creation of the garments.

This course is made of a single module of 6 CFA credits.

Successful students will be able to:

• Analyse and compare the chosen theme with similar examples from different eras/occasions

• Design a dress following a given theme

• Draw and convey their ideas

• Manage different ways to create a dress or a piece of accessory

• Identification, definition, and development of a theme

• Development of sketches

• Fabric sampling

• Creation of an accessory, dress, or decoration (consistent with the identified theme)

This is a theoretical/project based course.

Over the course, the students will carry out the following didactic activities, which may vary depending on the projects to be developed.

• Front lectures

• Use of tutorials, videos or other multi-media material

• Exercises and revisions

• Laboratories

• Individual or group projects

• Individual or group study and research

Assessment tools may include:

• Oral exams

• Submission of papers, essays or project work

Further details about the exams will be provided by the professors.

Further books and other recommended or required resources may be specified by the professor.