Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Textile Practice Research Strategies

Credit Points: 12.00

Terms

Course Code	Campus	Career	School	Learning Mode	Teaching Period(s)
GRAP2733	City Campus	Undergraduate	350H Fashion & Textiles	Face-to-Face	Sem 1 2019, Sem 1 2020, Sem 1 2021, Sem 2 2021, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 1 2024, Sem 1 2025

Course Coordinator: Dr Sean Ryan / Dr Juliana Luna Mora

Course Coordinator Phone: By email

Course Coordinator Email: sean.ryan@rmit.edu.au / juliana.luna@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: B008.012.006

Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment

Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

None.

 

 

Course Description

This course introduces you to the concept of creative practice research, and to strategies used in fashion and textile practice research. For fashion and textile design, creative practice is a model of research that uses design experiments as ‘data’ in the form of garments, textiles, publications, films, performances, and exhibitions. As ‘data’ this will be reflected and analysed to be translated as research. 

This course is taught alongside your studio course and will enable you to gain a deeper understanding of your emerging design practice and how it is positioned within social and cultural contexts. You will explore a range of creative practice research methods through tutorials, workshops, and seminars. You will develop research skills in data gathering, reflective practice, analysis, and communication of research findings appropriate to fashion and textiles design. 

Please note that if you take this course for a bachelor honours program, your overall mark in this course will be one of the course marks that will be used to calculate the weighted average mark (WAM) that will determine your award level. See the WAM information web page for more information.

 

 

Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

Program Learning Outcomes 

In this course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:

PLO 2: Critically evaluate social, cultural and technical information within a sustainable thinking framework associated with textile design and manufacturing in both local and global contexts.  PLO 3: Acquire and apply advanced and critical design strategies and thinking to address global and contemporary concerns of textile practice.
PLO 8: Undertake research into contemporary textile design practice and theory to explore future industry and career directions. 

 

 

Course Learning Outcomes 

Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

CLO1: Identify, analyse and evaluate different creative practice research methods 
CLO2: Critically reflect on examples of creative practice research strategies in relationship to your emerging textiles design practice.
CLO3: Conceptually map your emerging textiles design practice within the context of industry, community, and contemporary textile design 
CLO4: Propose a creative practice research intention 

 

Overview of Learning Activities

Your learning will be facilitated via a range of blended online and on campus activities that will require both individual and collaborative engagement. Class activities promote your ability to explore design, investigate, analyse and understand your emerging textiles practice.

Overview of Learning Resources

RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.

A list of recommended learning resources will be provided by your lecturer, including books, journal articles and web resources. You will also be expected to seek further resources relevant to the focus of your own learning.

RMIT Library provides extensive resources for fashion and textiles students.

Search the library and consult the Fashion and Textiles subject guides for more information.

There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student website. 

 

Overview of Assessment

You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes. 

Assessment Task 1:  Practice Contexts Map (20%) CLO 3 

Assessment Task 2: Annotated Bibliography (40%) CLO 1, 3, and 2 

Assessment Task 3: Research Proposal (40%) CLO 1, 2, 3, and 4 

Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks. 

If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more. 

Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.