COURSE UNIT TITLE

: RECYCLE, REGAIN AND SUSTAINABILITY IN TEXTILE DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TMA 6124 RECYCLE, REGAIN AND SUSTAINABILITY IN TEXTILE DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 10

Offered By

Textile and Fashion Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR LEYLA YILDIRIM

Offered to

Textile and Fashion Design

Course Objective

It is to carry out creative art/design workouts by integrating ecological production techniques such as recycling, regain, natural paint etc. that are brought forward as alternatives for developing environmentally-friendly and sustainable designs with new environmentally-friendly materials and techniques and to question the function of textile design within the context of social responsibility.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. Ability to discuss the economic, social and cultural dimension of consumption-based fashion understanding
2   2. Ability to define the practices of recycling and regaining, and their modern-day usages
3   3. Ability to study all possibilities of any kind of waste materials, used clothes, accessories etc. used for textile and non-textile purposes to be recycled and regained with the help of creative textile design applications
4   4. Ability to define natural paint sources within the scope of sustainability, environmentalist approach and evaluating domestic waste as colorant agents
5   5. Ability to define the techniques applied by artists/designers who adopt recycle, regain and slow fashion approaches in textile design
6   6. Ability to carry out trials that may develop experimental, creative and new perspectives by making use of foundlings and waste materials in the atelier
7   7. Ability to use new materials and production methods, which are environmentally-friendly and different, in the process of recycling with an integrative approach

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Researching about the concepts of environmentally-friendly, sustainability and green design
2 Researching about the applications of recycle and regain and their modern-day usages
3 Researching about recycling and regaining possibilites of waste clothes and waste materials, of which expected lives are considered to end, in the process of creative textile design by looking into the subject of waste clothes and materials
4 Researching about alternative painting/printing applications that contribute added value such as domestic and organic waste in the regaining processes
5 Evaluating the recycling and regaining applications of the modern-day artists and different cultures
6 Carrying out a series of experimental work on different fabrics or clothes, materials etc. that are desired to be regained in the atelier in accordance with the researched and ecologically appropriate techniques
7 Applied works
8 Applied works
9 Applied works
10 Applying chosen experimental works for the project
11 Applying chosen experimental works for the project
12 Applying chosen experimental works for the project
13 Reporting project process
14 Project presentation

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Editor Kirsi Niinimäki, Sustainable fashion:New approaches , Aalto University Publication series, Art + Design + Architecture 9/2013
2. Kate Fletcher, Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys. Earthscan, London, 2008
3. Kirsi Niinimäki, Lotta Hassi, Emerging design strategies in sustainable production and consumption of textiles and clothing, Journal of Cleaner Production 19 (2011)
4. Carlotta Cataldi, Maureen Dickson, Crystal Grover, Slow Fashion: Tailoring a Strategic Approach towards Sustainability, School of Engineering Blekinge Institute of Technology Karlskrona, Sweden 2010
5. Pasricha, Anupama, "Exploration of the meaning of sustainability in textiles and apparel discipline and prospects for curriculum enhancement" (2010). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. Paper 11433
6. Maria C. Thiry, Staying Alive: Making Textiles Sustainable, AATCC Review November/December 2011 www.aatcc.org
7. Recep Karadağ, Doğal Boyamacılık, T.C Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Ankara, 2007
8. Recep Karadağ, Doğal Boyama reçeteleri, , T.C Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Ankara, 2008
9. Tarek Ismail Kakhia,Dyes , Colors & Pigments, http://tarek.kakhia.org
10. L Chakraborty, S Chakraborty, Application of Eco-friendly Vegetable Dyes on Cotton fabric, Department of Textile Engineering in Anuradha Engineering College, Chikhli, Buldana,
11. Abayomi O. Adetuyi, The Uniqueness and Multidimensional Usage of Natural Dyes, Department of Industrial Chemistry, Federal University of Technology, Akure, Ondo State, Nigeria.
12. Rahul B. HIREMATH et all. An integrated networking approach for a sustainable textile sector in Solapur, India, Urbani izziv, volume 23, no. 2, 2012
13. Lois Pittman and Katherine Townsend, Designer/Makers are Key to Sustainable Textile Development, Making Futures Vol 1 ISSN 2042-1664 175
14. J. K. Kumara; A. K. Sinha, Resurgence of natural colourants: a holistic view, Natural Product Research, 18: 1, 59 84
15. Kerry G. Gilbert , David T. Cooke, Dyes from plants: Past usage, present understanding and potential, Plant Growth Regulation 34: 57 69, 2001.
16. Padma S. Vankar, Rakhi Shanker, Dyeing of cotton, wool and silk with extract of Allium cepa, Pigment & Resin Technology, 38/4 (2009) 242 247
17. Sara J. Kadolph, Karen Diadick Casselman, In the Bag: Contact Natural Dyes, Clothing and Textiles Research Journal, Volume 22, 1/2 2004
18. http://www.tedresearch.net/

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

After the research about the applications of the concepts of environmentally-friendly, sustainability, slow fashion, green design etc. in textile design, environmentalist painting, printing, materials and textile techniques are adopted and the results obtained through the research process are transformed into a textile product.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 RPT REPORT
2 WORK WORKSHOP
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) RPT * 0.70 +WORK * 0.20 + PAR * 0.10

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

The dimension of research, attendance, efficiency of applied works in the atelier and process of producing a product are significant.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

It is expected from the students to plan efficiently design process, work flow and material usage.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Practice (Reflection) 13 2 26
Student Presentations 1 4 4
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Project Preparation 12 8 96
Preparing presentations 12 4 48
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 254

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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