Asu4 briefing

Course: MA Textile Design

Unit 4: Award Specific Unit

Title: Experimentation and Specialism

This Award Specific Unit provides the opportunity to extend your subject knowledge through specialist practice and experimentation. You will be expected to examine the boundaries of your own design practice and consider how they may be pushed or challenged through experimentation and innovation. The workshops in this unit will invite you to extend your practice through the presentation of weekly textile design considerations. Examples of workshops and lectures you will engage with are: Materials Experimentation, Pattern and Repeat, Digital Craft, Market and Audience. Each workshop will require preparation and research during the preceding week. Alongside the taught sessions you will develop a body of work through an independent project. You will need to consider the theme of you project carefully at the outset of the unit and use the workshop sessions to consider how your own work relates to the theme of the session.

This Award Specific Unit provides the opportunity to extend your subject knowledge through specialist practice and experimentation. You will be expected to examine the boundaries of your own design practice and consider how they may be pushed or challenged through experimentation and innovation. The workshops in this unit will invite you to extend your practice through the presentation of weekly textile design considerations. Examples of workshops and lectures you will engage with are: Materials Experimentation, Pattern and Repeat, Digital Craft, Market and Audience. Each workshop will require preparation and research during the preceding week. Alongside the taught sessions you will develop a body of work through an independent project. You will need to consider the theme of you project carefully at the outset of the unit and use the workshop sessions to consider how your own work relates to the theme of the session.

opportunity to extend your subject knowledge throughpractice and experimentation.

examine the boundaries of your own design practice

consider how they may be pushed or challenged throughexperimentation and innovation. e workshops in this unit alongside the taught sessions you will develop a body ofwork

consider the theme of you project

use the workshop sessions your own work relates to the theme of the session.

Assessment Requirements:• At the end of this unit you will need to submit

• a) A completed Learning Agreement (that proposes the content, intent and context for your work).

• b) A body of studio work (including all supporting evidence of study, which includes final outcomes, prototypes, developmental work and a professional portfolio that critically informs and challenges design).

• c) A reflective journal (which clearly documents your

project and effectively applies your research findings relevant to your practice in this unit).

LO1:

Identify and apply concepts and principles associated with your subject to a range of professional contexts and environments.

We will be looking for breadth and depth in your experimentation with concepts, issues, materials and processes. We will be looking for resolution of ideas into final outcomes.

LO2:

Employ appropriate methods, processes and materials to produce experimental and finished work relevant to current practice in your area.

We will be looking for an investigative approach and evidence of your decision making in developing and realising concepts towards viable solutions in your reflective journal and supporting documentation.

LO3:

Examine complex problems in your area of study and articulate a range of solutions.

We will be looking for a sustained and rigorous approach to completing your Learning Agreement and reflective journal that shows development, reflection and understanding of working at postgraduate level.

LO4:

Evidence your understanding of professional practice and the creative industries relevant to your subject area.

We will be looking for evidence of an understanding of contemporary industry and design practices and how they are reflected in your own work

so what do you want to do?