Undergraduate Course: Textiles 1B: The role of Textiles in Art and Design (DESI08121)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course is designed to reinforce core research skills and extend these through their practical application to Textile design Briefs. Through projects and design challenges, the activities build confidence in understanding the possibilities for textiles as a creative discipline and begin to address how and where textiles can be applied. |
| Course description |
This course is built to provide a directed grounding of studies to art and design students interested in textiles and materials. The course consists of a series of 3 project briefs, to help students challenge their understanding of textiles in contemporary society, and to begin to explore what textiles can be, and how the discipline relates to other design fields. Content for these briefs may include themes related to the body, the environment and the culture we live in. Contexts may include fashion, interiors and product. Through developing questions, exploration, discoveries and discussion, students will begin to apply their understanding of practical and critical theory around the subject in projects, culminating in resolved prototypes, products and conclusions.
Students will be set textiles project briefs, and be challenged to explore connections between gathered research, drawing and personal investigation with materials. This will enable students to drill deeper into the research. Students will be encouraged to employ their understanding of textiles to help inform resolutions, developing skills and understanding within the parameters of the briefs. They will subsequently be asked to reflect and re-consider intentions for further development and resolution of ideas towards informed proposals, answering the expectations of the project briefs with an increasingly personal handwriting.
Throughout the course, students will work supported by tutorials, group crits and discussion and through various methods to share with and respond to the work of their peers.
This course will comprise multiple projects, each one being summatively assessed separately.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | If this course is Core to your programme, you will automatically be enrolled. For all other students, including Design students, the course is open on a first come, first served basis until the course is full. This course may have limited availability for non-Design students. Please contact the Course Organiser if you wish to enrol.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student.
Materials: Students will be expected to fund the purchase of general art and design materials, such as sketchbooks, paper and pens. Students will be expected to fund purchase of some specialist materials required by their course. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, but students will be expected to fund optional material costs as necessary for their own project work.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £35. |
| Additional Costs | This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student.
Materials: Students will be expected to fund the purchase of general art and design materials, such as sketchbooks, paper and pens. Students will be expected to fund purchase of some specialist materials required by their course. Course Organisers will support you in meeting intended learning outcomes while keeping material costs to a minimum, but students will be expected to fund optional material costs as necessary for their own project work.
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £35. |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2026/27, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 0 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 7,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 36,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1,
Formative Assessment Hours 1,
Summative Assessment Hours 1,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
150 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
SUMMATIVE Assessment(s)
Portfolio (100%) submitted at the end of the course and evidencing all Learning Outcomes.
Learning Outcomes are weighted as LO1 33% LO2 33% and LO3 34%
All Learning Outcomes must be passed to pass the course.
SUMMATIVE Assessment details
This 100% portfolio submission is formed of 3 project briefs.
Resit info
The resubmission assessment is the same as the original submission for this course. |
| Feedback |
Feedback
FORMATIVE
Formative reviews will take place at the end of each of the projects delivered during the course. Students will then be given the opportunity to further develop and complete each project before the summative assessment. This will be supported by student self-review and peer-review. In addition, feedback will be provided throughout all project delivery. This will take the form of individual verbal feedback during class time and through group presentations facilitating discussion and additional feedforward points.
SUMMATIVE
Individual feedback and grades will be provided via Learn VLE. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate appropriate creative responses and focused research in response to the textile project briefs.
- Apply critical judgement through personal investigation, focusing relevant textile and creative exploration towards resolutions for tasks and projects.
- Communicate textile processes and outcomes in a personal and professional format appropriate to the project briefs.
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Reading List
Briggs-Goode, A. Printed Textile Design , Laurence King (2013)
Cole, D. The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface Design. Laurence King (2009)
Kinnersley-Taylor, J Dyeing and screen printing on textiles. A & C Black, 2011 - Mellor S. & Elffers J. Textile Designs. New edition, Thames & Hudson (2002)
Quinn, B. Textile Designers at the Cutting Edge. Laurence King (2009)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Research and enquiry - Competency in research and development methods for design.
Personal and intellectual autonomy through application of skills and understanding - Versatility and critical evaluation of material choices and technique handling associated with the discipline of textiles.
Communication - Visual communication of research, design process and resolved outcomes. |
| Keywords | Textiles,drawing,colour,pattern,materials,art,design |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Nicola Taylor
Tel: (0131 6)51 5152
Email: ntaylor2@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Barbara Bianchi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5736
Email: barbara.bianchi@ed.ac.uk |
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