Textiles: Technology and the Body - COFA0907
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: Paddington
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
Fully online postgraduate course
In 20 years time, will clothes be intelligent, self cleansing, or grown from a living layer of tissue?
This fully online course will look at the exciting possibilities of the future of textiles in relationship to the body including wearable fabrics, extensions and accessories. Developments in textile technology are evolving at a rapid pace, with innovations that will enable you to reassess what textiles for the body can be. The course will look at textile design in relationship to both the surface and structure of a ‘fabric’.
What is the influence of traditional and technological processes on contemporary textile design? The lectures will initially look at the interdependence and relationship between traditional techniques and contemporary technology to give a fundamental understanding of future directions. The course will explore these influences with reference to contemporary artists and designers such as Tissue Culture and Art, and the Tachi Laboratory, University of Tokyo. Through your own individual and collaborative projects you will examine the innovative potential of the characteristics and functions clothing may have in the future. For example future clothing will be dynamic, virtual, interactive, responsive, intelligent, electronic and invisible.
Various topics will examine examples of contact between the body and textile technology. These developments create a sensory and engaging relationship between the body, mind and the external environment. As this new technology develops we will find ourselves being immersed and interacting within these changes. We will investigate this process by observing and speculating current and future developments in society. Examples of these will include current leaders in scientific and textile research and design development, such as Sarah Braddock Clarke and Marie O’Mahony. These will directly influence and provide a starting point for your own projects.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.
In 20 years time, will clothes be intelligent, self cleansing, or grown from a living layer of tissue?
This fully online course will look at the exciting possibilities of the future of textiles in relationship to the body including wearable fabrics, extensions and accessories. Developments in textile technology are evolving at a rapid pace, with innovations that will enable you to reassess what textiles for the body can be. The course will look at textile design in relationship to both the surface and structure of a ‘fabric’.
What is the influence of traditional and technological processes on contemporary textile design? The lectures will initially look at the interdependence and relationship between traditional techniques and contemporary technology to give a fundamental understanding of future directions. The course will explore these influences with reference to contemporary artists and designers such as Tissue Culture and Art, and the Tachi Laboratory, University of Tokyo. Through your own individual and collaborative projects you will examine the innovative potential of the characteristics and functions clothing may have in the future. For example future clothing will be dynamic, virtual, interactive, responsive, intelligent, electronic and invisible.
Various topics will examine examples of contact between the body and textile technology. These developments create a sensory and engaging relationship between the body, mind and the external environment. As this new technology develops we will find ourselves being immersed and interacting within these changes. We will investigate this process by observing and speculating current and future developments in society. Examples of these will include current leaders in scientific and textile research and design development, such as Sarah Braddock Clarke and Marie O’Mahony. These will directly influence and provide a starting point for your own projects.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.
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