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Undergraduate Course: Design Studio 2 - Textiles (DESI08041)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryThis course introduces students to the fundamental knowledge and skills appropriate to their chosen discipline. Students work on a series of exercises and projects of differing time-frames and increasing complexity within a studio environment. Students are encouraged to develop an iterative creative process that incorporates making, evaluating, presenting and reflecting.

The aims of the course are:
1. To introduce appropriate creative methods, techniques and approaches
2. To explore how practitioners personally respond to briefs
3. To introduce appropriate materials and processes
Course description As Summary
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements This course is only available to ECA students on degree programmes belonging to Design.
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. EVALUATE: evaluate and respond to project briefs and formulate appropriate approaches.
  2. DEVELOP: apply fundamental material and conceptual development through a transparent iterative process.
  3. REALISE: evaluate a body of research work, and select and realise suitable project solutions through structured and transparent methodologies.
Reading List
Textiles - Design Studio 2
- Woolf, C. The Art of Manipulating Fabric, Krause
Publications (2003)
- Bowles, M. & Isaac, C. Digital Textile Design, Laurence
King (2012)
- Casey, A. Lucienne Day: In the Spirit of the Age
[Paperback] ACC Editions (2014)
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMs Shirley McLauchlan
Tel:
Email: s.mclauchlan@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Gill Lowther
Tel:
Email: glowther@ed.ac.uk
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