FA4026 - Fashion Practice

This is a practical module that is rooted in experiential learning, delivered between the academic tutors and technical team. Students will access to the pattern cutting, sewing, print and knit workshops, to realise their negotiated fashion outcomes, and will book access for Directed Study.

You will engage with disruptive design and ideation techniques to resolve a design problem (thinking-throughmaking) underpinned by responsible design practice. Throughout the module, you will document and reflect on your experimental processes in your Creative and Technical Process Journals.

• At the start of the module, the creative brief, learning plan, learning outcomes, work requirements and assessment process will be presented verbally and visually by the module tutor.

• Delivery of this module will be a mix of practical studio sessions, workshops, lectures, seminars, group and individual tutorials. Blended studio-based work will facilitate the development of fashion thinking and practice. Directed Study will be set regularly with specific set tasks to underpin your learning and inspire independent enquiry or study.

• Throughout the module, you will receive ongoing formative feedback in formal and informal tutorials. Feedback may be verbal or written.

• To be successful in this module it is important to engage with all sessions and all forms of delivery.

• After summative assessment, you will receive formal constructive written feedback and a grade indicating your achievement in relation to the learning outcomes. Additionally, you will be offered a tutorial with members of the academic team.

• In addition to your module tutors, you will be supported by various other members of staff and university services including:

o Technicians aligned with your modules to provide technical instruction and demonstration of equipment and software required to complete you project work;
o Library staff to guide you in the ongoing development of essential study: IT skills, information retrieval skills and academic writing via Skills Plus;
o Academic Language Skills modules to help students at the Northumbria Campuses whose first language is not English or who have no experience studying in English in the UK.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:

5. Demonstrate knowledge of responsible practice through the development and execution of fashion outcomes.

Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:

2. Record and annotate fashion design research and development through sketchbooks, technical process journals (TPJs), creative process journals (CPJs), or other formats.

5. Independently generate fashion concepts, proposals, solutions or arguments.

6. Apply convergent and divergent thinking techniques to solve fashion design challenges.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):

1. Demonstrate fashion making skills through the appropriate use of fashion materials, processes and technologies.

2. Demonstrate creative risk-taking when generating fashion ideas.

Formative Assessment process:
You will receive ongoing feedback in studio and workshops to ensure creative and technical competencies are met before progressing through the design process into the garment production.

Summative Assessment process: (Week 10). You will submit for summative assessment:

1. Annotated Technical Process Journal (TPJ including final garment and working drawing) (50%)
2. Annotated Creative Process Journal (CPJ) (50%)

You will be assessed against the following Module Learning Outcomes:

Component 1: KU 5, IPSA 2, 6, PVA 1

Component 2: KU 5, IPSA 2, 5, 6, PVA 2

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This module offers you the opportunity to apply your new knowledge and skills in the creation of a design and make project.
You will take a disruptive approach to your learning in response to global design challenges, from concept to final outcome. You will be introduced to new fashion research methods that encourage deep understanding of the fashion design process e.g. garment analysis, moulage and creative sampling. You will present your final design on the moving human body or by another appropriate presentation method.

In working with the technicians and tutors, you will take a ‘thinking-through-making’, experiential learning approach, merging industrial and experimental processes and techniques.

Your design outcomes will provide the content for your Fashion Image module in your third delivery block.