Course units
Unit 1 - Research and risk-taking: exploring your practice
This unit is an introduction to your course, the College and the University. You’ll get an overview of key textile areas including weave, knit, stitch and print. A discovery project will help you decide what and where your focus will be as a textile designer. Online and onsite lectures will cover a variety of applications for textiles within different contexts. Written work will include a project proposal for Unit 2 that is underpinned by sustainable, social and responsible design methods and practices.
Unit 2 - Critical and professional contexts: development and realisation
This unit will focus on your future ambitions within textile design. You’ll develop your design identity and how this connects to a wider external context. You’ll produce a critical research paper contextualising your practice and put together a portfolio.