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.

  • Unit Title

    Textile Design
  • Unit Code

    FAS2201
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Justine Shonah MCKNIGHT

Description

This unit introduces students to historical and contemporary approaches to material process and print design for textiles and garment. Students will gain skills in dye and chemical processes, print methods, colour and fabric manipulation linked to self-directed research and journal work. Alongside practical workshops the unit will develop critical awareness of the historical and cultural positioning of image, patterns and text and how these elements may be referenced to locate work formally and conceptually. It will include an exploration of print and manipulation processes as contextual elements within the work of relevant contemporary designers and fashion collections.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass FAS1201

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS2103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify material characteristics and their suitability for textile manipulation outcomes.
  2. Exercise technical proficiency when applying print and dye techniques and textile manipulation processes to fabrics in relationship to visual research.
  3. Apply textiles process, fabric manipulation and print design to existing garments in relationship to visual research.
  4. Create print designs that incorporate formal qualities specific to garment.
  5. Describe in written and oral form the relationships between visual research ideas, aesthetic considerations and technical processes in their work.

Unit Content

  1. Fabric properties and their use in textile process and garment outcomes.
  2. Formal and aesthetic skills in the application of technical methods, design and application of print and dye process.
  3. Textile design development and investigation through visual research.
  4. Garment specific print design.
  5. Introduction to relevant historical and contemporary designers and self-directed research.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

In practical workshops, students are introduced to properties of textiles and dye, print and manipulation processes with a focus on creative possibilities while also addressing technical and OS&H considerations. Lecturer demonstration, followed by student participation, takes place in the dedicated textile, print and dye studios with support from the fashion technician. Technical processes are supported with instructional material, academic and industry references. Once key methods have been introduced, students apply acquired skills to develop self-directed design outcomes with support and feedback from the lecturer and technician.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectAssessment 1 Dye and Manipulation 40%
ProjectAssessment 2 Print Project40%
PortfolioProcess File and Journal20%

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.

  • Unit Title

    Textile Design
  • Unit Code

    FAS2201
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Ms Justine Shonah MCKNIGHT

Description

This unit introduces students to historical and contemporary approaches to material process and print design for textiles and garment. Students will gain skills in dye and chemical processes, print methods, colour and fabric manipulation linked to self-directed research and journal work. Alongside practical workshops the unit will develop critical awareness of the historical and cultural positioning of image, patterns and text and how these elements may be referenced to locate work formally and conceptually. It will include an exploration of print and manipulation processes as contextual elements within the work of relevant contemporary designers and fashion collections.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass FAS1201

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded FAS2103

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Identify material characteristics and their suitability for textile manipulation outcomes.
  2. Exercise technical proficiency when applying print and dye techniques and textile manipulation processes to fabrics in relationship to visual research.
  3. Apply textiles process, fabric manipulation and print design to existing garments in relationship to visual research.
  4. Create print designs that incorporate formal qualities specific to garment.
  5. Describe in written and oral form the relationships between visual research ideas, aesthetic considerations and technical processes in their work.

Unit Content

  1. Fabric properties and their use in textile process and garment outcomes.
  2. Formal and aesthetic skills in the application of technical methods, design and application of print and dye process.
  3. Textile design development and investigation through visual research.
  4. Garment specific print design.
  5. Introduction to relevant historical and contemporary designers and self-directed research.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not Offered13 x 4 hour seminarNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

In practical workshops, students are introduced to properties of textiles and dye, print and manipulation processes with a focus on creative possibilities while also addressing technical and OS&H considerations. Lecturer demonstration, followed by student participation, takes place in the dedicated textile, print and dye studios with support from the fashion technician. Technical processes are supported with instructional material, academic and industry references. Once key methods have been introduced, students apply acquired skills to develop self-directed design outcomes with support and feedback from the lecturer and technician.

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 School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectAssessment 1 Dye and Manipulation 40%
ProjectAssessment 2 Print Project40%
PortfolioProcess File and Journal20%

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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