COURSE UNIT TITLE

: EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES IN FASHION DESIGN I

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
TMA 6141 EXPERIMENTAL APPROACHES IN FASHION DESIGN I ELECTIVE 2 2 0 8

Offered By

Textile and Fashion Design

Level of Course Unit

Third Cycle Programmes (Doctorate Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASISTANT PROFESSOR SELDA KOZBEKÇI AYRANPINAR

Offered to

Textile and Fashion Design

Course Objective

In the costume design, expressing certain ideas in the end of the experimental studies with using the alternative materials, strengthening creativity and enhancing innovative approaches with exhibiting distinctive workpieces are the main purposes.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Establishing relationship between the alternative materials and the shape which will be created
2   To be able to apply the basic elements of clothing design such as color, texture, fabric structure, pattern and production techniques during the transition to the production process,
3   to be able to associate the employed techniques and materials correctly and make a presentation
4   Having an idea about the layout of the prepared work

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Researching alternative costume designs in accordance with shape, cut, color, fabric, etc. and report presentation.
2 project topic; discussion on interaction points and material features
3 Researching alternative materials that can be used in the works and supporting the design with the examples in the process of production.
4 Research on various techniques and material features; analysing the materials and the techniques which will be employed within the scope of the project and sketch design study
5 Examining the sketchs and dealing with them entirely
6 Experiencing the techniques and the materials about the application details
7 Applied works
8 Applied works
9 Applied works
10 Applied works
11 Applied works
12 Applied works and presentation suggestions
13 Applied works and presentation suggestions
14 Evaluation-discussion

Recomended or Required Reading

*Remake it Clothes, Henrietta Thompson, Thames&Hudson, London, 2012
*Japanese Fashion Designers: The Work and Influence of Issey Miyake, Bonnie English, Berg, Oxford, NewYork, 2011
* Textile Perspectives in Mixed-media Sculpture, Jac Scott, The Crowood Press, 2003
* History of 20th Century Fashion, Elizabeth Ewing, Alice Mackrell, BT Bastsford, London, 2005
* Sustainable Fashion and Textiles, Kate Fletcher, earthscan, London, 2008
* Radical Fashion, Claire WILCOX, Victoria & Albert Museum, Londan, 2001
* Fashion From Consept to Consumer FRINGS, Gini Stephens, Prentice-Hall, London, 2002
* Fashion Design, Sue Jenky Jones, Laurence King Publishing, 2002
* Fashion Now, Terry Jones - Avri Maır, Taschen, Paris, 2002
* Fashion Today, Colin Mc Dowell, Pfaidon Press Lmt., Hong Kong, 2000

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Implementation process is performing experimental application studies after investigating samples which we get from the research about the technical and alternative materials.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PRJ PROJECT
3 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.30 + PRJ * 0.70


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

In the design, innovative solutions and different visual effects will be searched with working on the technique while using the traditional materials or new materials.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. There is an 80 % obligation in attendance to lesson.
2. All plagiarism attempts and actions would end up in disciplinary punishment
3. Nonattendance to the lesson, not performing the required responsibilities will not be accepted.
4. For late project deliveries, decreasing a letter grade for each day will be applied.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

s.kozbekci@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Thursday 12:00-13:00

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 2 28
Labratory 14 2 28
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 6 84
Project Preparation 1 14 14
Preparing presentations 4 5 20
Preparing assignments 3 8 24
Project Final Presentation 1 5 5
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 203

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.155553531155335
LO.25553555331315
LO.3555315535355
LO.455135535535515