Undergraduate Course: Textiles 3A: Professional settings (DESI10092)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course leads students to work with industry, explore live briefs through competitions and extend their knowledge and understanding of the wider applications of materials and textile-focused expertise. A range of skills are further extended at this level, through the development of resolved solutions for focused contexts. The final destinations for textiles and related products will be appropriate to the discipline and associated fields in design. Students will be set creative challenges closely aligned to design activities in the industry. Students will analyse, research and develop appropriate solutions.
Exact number of projects contained within this course will vary from year to year depending on client and industry collaboration and variations in competition briefs. There will always be a maximum of 5 projects and a minimum of 2. |
| Course description |
This course focuses on tackling industry and national and international competition-driven briefs in order to deepen knowledge, experience and understanding of the wider applications of materials and textile-focused expertise.
Students will be introduced to a range of competition briefs and encouraged to explore options which will challenge their thinking and extend their exploration of textiles in its broadest sense. Individuals will be tasked with examining their existing skills and personal strengths as well as determining which briefs will help extend skills and understanding. Group seminars and presentations will help students question their approaches to design problems and will challenge thinking within the confines of set briefs.¿¿
Design solutions and investigations will be analysed, challenged and further refined towards resolutions applicable to the design briefs.
Students will be supported in appropriate presentation methods to pull together their final submissions for competition and design briefs. Finishing and professional production and presentations methods will be explored. Where appropriate CAD presentation software will be introduced to refine professionalism in the completed design projects and competition entries.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | This course is only available to students on the Textiles Degree Programme in the School of Design.
This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including [e.g. laptop headphones, SD cards].
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 [e.g. fabrics etc]. 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. The costs will be dependent on individual student choices and activities. All materials costs for textiles print pastes, screens and associated costs are available in the printroom. Costs for laser cutting, 3D printing, digital printing and other relevant technology within the deign school are clearly communicated to the students on induction to the various machines.
Printing: Students are expected to fund occasional printing of [A4/A1 printing, booklet binding¿etc].
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50. |
| Additional Costs | This Course requires additional costs to be met by the Student.
Equipment and software: Most equipment and software required will be provided by the School, but student will be expected to provide some specialist equipment including [e.g. laptop headphones, SD cards].
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 [e.g. fabrics etc]. 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. The costs will be dependent on individual student choices and activities. All materials costs for textiles print pastes, screens and associated costs are available in the printroom. Costs for laser cutting, 3D printing, digital printing and other relevant technology within the deign school are clearly communicated to the students on induction to the various machines.
Printing: Students are expected to fund occasional printing of [A4/A1 printing, booklet binding¿etc].
To fully participate in this course students are recommended to budget a minimum of £50. |
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 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 40,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 50,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 3,
Formative Assessment Hours 3,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
294 )
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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 a series of 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 an increasingly inquisitive exploration of a range of approaches to textiles, supported by a thorough body of research in response to the parameters set within the project briefs.
- Explore materials, techniques and themes to achieve appropriate resolutions for targeted Textiles audiences and contexts.
- Communicate solutions visually, verbally and in writing, in a professional and appropriate format, relevant to current Textiles industry practice.
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Reading List
Charny, D., Power of Making: The Case for Making and Skills (2011)
Cheney, N. & McAllister, H., Textile Surface Manipulation, Bloomsbury (2013)
Doe, T.,Textile Design in the Digital Age, Goodman Books (2015)
Kettle, A., Felcey, H. & Ravetz, A. Collaboration Through Craft, Bloomsbury Academic (2013)
Mancini, E. & Coad, R., Design, When Everybody Designs: An Introduction to Design for Social Innovation (2015)
Braddock, S.E. & Clarke, J.H. Digital Visions for Fashion + Textiles: Made in Code, Thames & Hudson (2012)
Additional reading and specific websites associated with each project will be attached to all briefs.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Ability to research in a focused manner
Apply creative problem solving to design problems
Demonstrate decision making and editing
Communication skills, visual and verbal
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| Keywords | Textiles contexts,Industry briefs,Competitions,Textile expertise,Design applications |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Shirley McLauchlan
Tel:
Email: s.mclauchlan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Barbara Bianchi
Tel: (0131 6)51 5736
Email: barbara.bianchi@ed.ac.uk |
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