Undergraduate Course: Textiles 3B : Identifying Textile Directions (DESI10110)
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 | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course streamlines the student's personal vision for textile design, placing design ideas in specific contexts. Students will explore a variety of modes of working which may include groups, pairs and individual formats. Students are encouraged to identify personal directions for their ambitions, both creatively and through materials. Through a suite of projects students will explore developing solutions to design challenges as members of collaborative teams, collective groups and individual personally set briefs. This course helps students prepare for working as part of a design team.
Students conclude the course with the creation of a personal portfolio of projects that respond to a variety of briefs, which are required to be professionally presented, identifying personal skills and strengths. |
| Course description |
The course is comprised of a series of 4 projects which are brought together in a final body of work summing up personal strengths in a format appropriate to the expectations of the discipline.
The palette of projects has close alignment with current and emergent issues in textiles and related fields. The projects provoke analysis of technique and processes, and the questioning and challenging of industry, established practice and the cultural, social, environmental and economic impacts of these.
A range of contexts for design work will be explored across the projects, with keen consideration given towards the impact that the outcomes will have. Collaborative and individual approaches will be applied.
Research is key in this course, to support contextual understanding, material choices and applications, process, design direction and resolutions.
Live industry links, research connections and relevant competition briefs will also be utilised where possible to ensure relevancy and currency of projects tackled.
All projects will seek to ensure the development of personal working methods and encourage the growth and elevation of technical skills, analytical skills, design and resolution skills. A variety of presentation methods, appliable to the specific briefs will be required. Students are actively encouraged to be informed and selective in the formats they choose to create for their project outputs and to address this in each unique project brief. This provides students with experience of applying adaptability towards the creative breadth of professional practice.
Projects will become increasingly personal and allow the student to ensure that their personal design style, interests and drivers become fully embedded by the conclusion of the course.
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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.
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.
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 £70. |
| 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.
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 £70. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
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:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 14,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 72,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 4,
Formative Assessment Hours 4,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
296 )
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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.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Demonstrate the appropriate use of relevant research and technical skills and knowledge, to develop viable and coherent solutions to design projects
- Realise personal intentions through themed projects to achieve appropriate resolutions for targeted Textiles audiences and contexts
- Communicate solutions visually, verbally and in writing, in a professional and appropriate format
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Reading List
Clarke, S., Textile Design (Portfolio), Laurence King (2011)
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)
Patternity, PATTERNITY: A New Way Of Seeing: The Inspirational Power Of Pattern, Conran (2015)
Quinn, B. Textile Visionaries: Innovation and Sustainability in Textile Design. Laurence King (2013)
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 |
Research and Enquiry - Ability to identify and employ textiles research and analysis effectively.
Intellectual Autonomy ¿ Appropriate application of critical thinking and creative problem-solving skills that are effectively contextualised within the field.
Communication - Confidently demonstrate arguments and decisions with sensitivity and sound reasoning for approaches, processes and outcomes. |
| Keywords | textiles,contexts,expertise,design,applications,group-work,technology,folio,communication |
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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