School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Material Manipulation
  • Unit Code

    FAS1105
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Justine Shonah MCKNIGHT

Description

This unit introduces design principles for the creative construction of garment related forms. It encourages an investigative approach to making through exploration of materials with consideration of the transformative possibilities of manipulation and construction processes. The relationship between materiality, form and the body underpins practical workshops and visual presentations designed to teach students visual language skills for developing creative outcomes for garment. Students are encouraged to work outside of preconceptions of garment to explore alternative possibilities for an investigation of the body, form and context.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop experimental design outcomes through the construction of forms using introduced techniques.
  2. Apply a range of manipulation processes in an investigative way to physically transform materials.
  3. Identify and solve a range of problems related to constructing simple forms that may be worn on the body.
  4. Orally communicate the decision-making processes involved in the development of the creative work.
  5. Document in written and photographic form processes undertaken in the unit.

Unit Content

  1. Manipulation processes considering a range of design principles related to the construction of creative forms for the body.
  2. Formal and problem-solving skills in the handling of materials and construction of 3D forms.
  3. Visual research processes that develop and communicate creative outcomes for garment related forms.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

In practical classes students engage in interactive and physical tasks that introduce material manipulation and construction processes. Hands-on making and problem solving is undertaken as both individual and group activities to encourage confidence to work in a large scale and undertake creative experimentation. The projects are designed to develop tacit knowledge and are supported by media and technologies to assist with both the development and documentation of design outcomes and contextual understanding. Students are required to complete set home projects to develop concepts and skills introduced in class. Practical journal work is undertaken as a means to record and reflect on the creative learning process.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCreative project 1 (cumulative ongoing assessment from wk 1) 40%
ProjectCreative project 240%
JournalDocumentation and visual research 20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Material Manipulation
  • Unit Code

    FAS1105
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Justine Shonah MCKNIGHT

Description

This unit introduces design principles for the creative construction of garment related forms. It encourages an investigative approach to making through exploration of materials with consideration of the transformative possibilities of manipulation and construction processes. The relationship between materiality, form and the body underpins practical workshops and visual presentations designed to teach students visual language skills for developing creative outcomes for garment. Students are encouraged to work outside of preconceptions of garment to explore alternative possibilities for an investigation of the body, form and context.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS1101

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Develop experimental design outcomes through the construction of forms using introduced techniques.
  2. Apply a range of manipulation processes in an investigative way to physically transform materials.
  3. Identify and solve a range of problems related to constructing simple forms that may be worn on the body.
  4. Orally communicate the decision-making processes involved in the development of the creative work.
  5. Document in written and photographic form processes undertaken in the unit.

Unit Content

  1. Manipulation processes considering a range of design principles related to the construction of creative forms for the body.
  2. Formal and problem-solving skills in the handling of materials and construction of 3D forms.
  3. Visual research processes that develop and communicate creative outcomes for garment related forms.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU Blackboard.

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 3 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

In practical classes students engage in interactive and physical tasks that introduce material manipulation and construction processes. Hands-on making and problem solving is undertaken as both individual and group activities to encourage confidence to work in a large scale and undertake creative experimentation. The projects are designed to develop tacit knowledge and are supported by media and technologies to assist with both the development and documentation of design outcomes and contextual understanding. Students are required to complete set home projects to develop concepts and skills introduced in class. Practical journal work is undertaken as a means to record and reflect on the creative learning process.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectCreative project 1 (cumulative ongoing assessment from wk 1) 40%
ProjectCreative project 240%
JournalDocumentation and visual research 20%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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