Course Syllabus

Scandinavian Textiles and Fashion Workshop

Description of Course

Uncover your individual design aesthetic and unleash your creative identity by exploring textiles in fashion and surface design and how they change the way we dress as well as inform the spaces around us. The course combines visits to global Scandinavian brands the likes of H&M, Filippa K, and Marimekko with readings and studies of tactility, expression, and materials and a workshop component, where you develop your own digital lookbook of individual innovative design work. Scandinavian Textiles and Fashion Workshop is appropriate for students in studio art, interior design, architecture, design history, information design, creative management or business. The workshop will combine students of different standing and background. The course is taught vertically, and expectations relate to each individual student. Students will work in analogue and digital media. User knowledge of Adobe Suite is required.

Learning Objectives

To enhance the individual student’s:

Design Knowledge:

Building an understanding of Scandinavian textile and fashion design tradition - historic as well as contemporary - through the work on assignments, and the study of precedents and case studies in the workshop

Design Experiences:

Exploring Scandinavian and Northern European textile and fashion design on field studies and the study tour as well as through the exposure to Scandinavian faculty in the workshop

Design Skills:

Studying and working with Scandinavian textile and fashion design methods and philosophies shaped by democratic, humanistic, and contextual aspirations

• Democratic: We believe design matters to society, its well-being and progress, and our common sanity
• Humanistic: We believe design must care for people, at all levels, in their common and individual everyday, and for the environment as the habitat for human activity
• Contextual: We believe design connects us to what we share – the common ground, history, identity, and each other.

Faculty

TBD

Study Tour and Field Visits

A vital portion of our learning will take place outside the classroom visiting companies, showrooms, outlets, and artists.

The course includes a 3-day study tour. This trip will come at no extra cost to you but is a mandatory part of the curriculum of this course. Travel will take place during the period of your semester known as the ‘Study Break.’ 

Information regarding programming of the short tour and the field studies will be provided on Canvas at the start of the semester.

Readings

TBD

Grading:

Academic Regulations  

Please make sure to read the Academic Regulations on the DIS website. There you will find regulations on: 

• Course Enrollment and Grading  
• Academic Expectations and Honor Code 

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