Studio 1: Specialization Clothing Design and Costume Design

Brief course description

This is the study programme’s first specialization course in fashion and costume design. The students examine and test their field of interest, focusing particularly on practice within the discipline and on exploring materials, techniques, expressions and contexts. The students work independently and/or in collaboration with each other, with an experimental project that involves gathering information and references. The project anchors the students’ own practice in the disciplinary tradition and in contemporary society. Emphasis is on method and process, materialization, documentation and critical reflection.

The course’s learning outcomes

Upon completion of the course, the students, the students should

• have competence to critically evaluate their own work and that of others.
• be able to demonstrate in-depth knowledge and expertise in creating form and in using materials and technologies relevant to fashion and costume design.
• be able to critically examine, reflect on and explain their own work and that of others and communicate this to specialists and the general public.

Teaching and learning methods

The course can consist of independent work, individual or group instruction, lectures, workshops and group critique sessions. The course can include fieldtrips. ¨

Coursework requirements

• completion and submission of all assignments by the scheduled deadlines
• participation in instruction and activities that are defined as mandatory in the course description

Assessment

Coursework requirements must be met in order for the student to receive a final assessment in the course. The student’s work is assessed in relation to the learning outcomes and assessment criteria set for the course. The assessment is made by the teacher with course responsibility and may also be done in collaboration with internal subject teachers and / or external guest teachers.