Textiles: Innovation and Design BA (Hons) DIntS / DPS
Bachelor's degree
In Loughborough
Description
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Type
Bachelor's degree
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Location
Loughborough
Overview
Textiles: Innovation and Design BA offers you an outstanding, commercially relevant and innovative insight into the field of contemporary Textiles, and provides the opportunity to develop your skills through one of the 4 specialist pathways – Multi-Media Textiles, Weave, Print or Integrated Digital Practice, all of which are supported by excellent facilities, and technical expertise.
Textiles: Innovation and Design BA enables you to gain high level practical skills in design for Textiles, and offers you the opportunity to develop specialised skills in your second and third years through specialist pathways in Print, Weave, Multi-Media or Digital Practice. The course combines traditional and hand processes with digital technologies, and develops strong skills in drawing and making. The Textiles course has developed extensive links with industry, encompassing fashion, interiors, surface design and digital applications.
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Subjects
- Ms Word
- Textiles
- Production
- Modern Contemporary
- Media
- Communication Training
- Writing
- Project
- Image
- Art
- Drawing
- Art design
- Materials
- Innovation
- Design
- Philosophy
- Word
Course programme
What you'll study
Textiles: Innovation and Design provides a stimulating creative environment in which you can develop practical, critical and conceptual skills necessary for high-level contemporary Textiles practice.
We aim to ensure that all students have broad first-hand experience of processes involved in the planning and production of contemporary Textile outcomes, whilst developing specialised knowledge aligning with current contextual requirements - Interiors, Fashion, Textiles Art, Research and the developing area of Digital Production. We encourage the development of significant skills in the practice of Design, Art and Craft informed by an awareness of historical and contemporary practice.
The information below reflects the currently intended course structure and module details. Updates may be made on an annual basis and revised details will be published through Programme Specifications ahead of each academic year. Please see Terms and Conditions of Study for more information.
- Year 1
- Year 2
- Final year
Areas studied include drawing, introduction to modern and contemporary art and design, visual research, design development, and textiles process and exploration.
Drawing: Discourses and Debates Core
Drawing: Discourses and Debates
Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art and Design Core
Introduction to Modern and Contemporary Art and Design
Visual Research for Textiles Core
Visual Research for Textiles
Design Development for Textiles Core
Design Development for Textiles
Textiles Process and Exploration Core
Textiles Process and Exploration
Areas studied include materials, processes and conceptual application, sampling and textile manufacture, and professional and business practice. You will be given the opportunity to select one optional module from a diverse School-wide list.
Professional and Business Practice Core
Professional and Business Practice
Sampling and Textile Manufacture Core
Sampling and Textile Manufacture
Materials, Processes and Conceptual Application Core
Materials, Processes and Conceptual Application
Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing Optional
Elephants and Engines: An Introduction to Creative Writing
This module will introduce you to techniques for writing fiction and poetry. These include imagery, character and location - allowing you to write in whatever form or genre you wish, and on any subject matter. Practical workshops and examples from contemporary literature will help you to write, and to develop your writing strengths.
From Print to Digital: Publishing Revolutions Optional
From Print to Digital: Publishing Revolutions
This module provides multiple perspectives on publishing and the spread of ideas through print and the digital in society, and on key concepts and ideas from the publishing world. It traces significant changes that have taken place in the book trade since the invention of printing to the digital revolution and to explore the challenges and opportunities arising from these changes.
Philosophy, Literature and the Arts Optional
Philosophy, Literature and the Arts
On this module you will read and discuss some of the key ideas in philosophy that are central to literary study and theory, and to the discussion of art and its role in our lives and societies. We will be examining these alongside a selection of literary texts and visual art (sculpture, painting and photography) which pose, incorporate or illustrate philosophical ideas and questions.
African American Culture Optional
African American Culture
On this module you will explore the complex formal and political questions raised by African American cultural expression produced between 1845 and the present. We will study a wide range of forms and media - literary, cinematic and musical - situating these in their shifting historical contexts, from the nineteenth-century American South to the contemporary Black Lives Matter movement.
Material Culture Optional
Material Culture
Optional module taught by Communication, Media, Social and Policy Studies, focusing on the concept of physical and virtual objects. The ideas of consumption and possession are explored, including the notion of the body as a material thing and the nature of gift and exchange.
Creative Dissent: Protest, Activism and Art Optional
Creative Dissent: Protest, Activism and Art
This module highlights the social production of art.
Fashion Theory Optional
Fashion Theory
This module will introduce and critically examine some of the main theories of fashion. It will identify and survey modernist and post-modernist theories of the nature of fashion as well as of the production, meaning and consumption of fashion.
19th Century Bodies Optional
19th Century Bodies
Word and Image: Verbo-visual Exchange in Art and Literature Optional
Word and Image: Verbo-visual Exchange in Art and Literature
This module examines innovative exchanges between word and image in visual art and literature across a range of media. It develops analytical skills through the close visual and textual analysis of works drawn from a wide variety of historical periods and genre.
Non-verbal Communication: Body Adornment and New Technologies Optional
Non-verbal Communication: Body Adornment and New Technologies
This module aims for students to develop an appreciation of body objects in life, art, design and drama, as well as gaining understanding and knowledge of the communicative roles of wearable artefacts and the relationships they can have with the human body.
Arts Management Optional
Arts Management
This module covers a range of issues related to arts management including: the economic and political landscape for the arts and creative industries, careers in arts management, funding for the arts, establishing and running an arts-based organisation, arts programming, curating, audience and customer development, finance and fundraising, marketing, time management and project management.
Introduction to Multimodality Optional
Introduction to Multimodality
How do we communicate through images and what is the relationship between visual and verbal text strategies? The aim of the module is to introduce students to the study of texts that are created not just by using verbal language.
Costume Design Optional
Costume Design
This module aims for the student to gain both theoretical knowledge of the function and historical development of theatre costume, and practical understanding of the creative process of design and making.
Modules studied include Innovation, Exploration and Invention, Textiles Research Report, and a Textiles Studio Practice Final Project.
Textiles Research Report Core
Textiles Research Report
Textiles: Innovation, Exploration and Invention Core
Textiles: Innovation, Exploration and Invention
Final Project Textiles Studio Practice Core
Final Project Textiles Studio Practice
Programme specification
Module specification
Textiles: Innovation and Design BA (Hons) DIntS / DPS