Course Syllabus
Scandinavian Textiles and Fashion Workshop |
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| Semester & Location: |
Spring 2022- Stockholm |
| Type & Credits: |
Exploration Elective Course - 3 credits |
| Major Disciplines: |
Design, Fashion Studies, Studio Arts |
| Prerequisite(s): |
None |
| Faculty Members: |
Alva Roselius, alvaroselius@gmail.com Jeppe Juel Rishøj, jeppe567@live.dk |
| Program Director: |
Henning Martin-Thomsen (he/him), ht@dis.dk |
| Academic support: | |
| Time & Place: |
Tuesdays 14:50-17:45 in room: 1D-409 |
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. A workshop component, where you develop your own journal/lookbook of individual innovative design explorations and present your findings as moodboards, is a key part of the course. Scandinavian Textiles and Fashion Workshop is appropriate for students in studio art, interior design, architecture, design history, information design, creative management or business. Students will work in analogue and digital media. User knowledge of Adobe Suite is helpful.
Learning Objectives
- To cultivate ways of exploring textiles in fashion and surface design and their intersections with identities, histories, narratives, and cultures in the contemporary world
- To introduce tools and optics that can support students individual explorations of textiles in fashion and surface design
- To plan, execute and document actual individual and team-based explorations
Faculty
Alva Roselius: BFA (Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. Stockholm, 2020). Gender studies (Södertörns University, Stockholm, 2016). Self employed textile artist and freelance set designer working with a variety of artists for music videos and similar projects. Project manager and curator for EXIT gallery, 2017. With DIS since 2021.
Jeppe Juel Rishøj: M.A, Cand.Des, (Fashion Design, The Royal Danish Academy). With DIS since 2021.
Study Tour and Field Visits
A vital portion of our learning will take place outside the classroom visiting companies, showrooms, outlets, researchers, designers and artists.
The course includes a 3-day study tour to Helsinki, Finland. 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
– Barnard, Malcolm. 2002 (reprinted 2008). Fashion as Communication. Second Edition. Oxon and New York: Routledge: 72 - 101
– Bryan-Wilson, Julia. 2017. Fray: Art and Textile Politics. Chicago & London, University of Chicago Press: 1 - 28
– Fletcher, Kate. 2014. Sustainable Fashion and Textiles: Design Journeys. Second edition. London & New York, Routledge: 139 - 161
–Goodrum, Alison. 2005. The National Fabric: Fashion, Britishness, Globalization. Oxford, Berg Publishers: 68 - 81
–Hebdige, Dick. 1997. Subculture: The Meaning of Style. London & New York, Routledge: 117 - 128
–Kyaga, Ulrika. 2020. Swedish Fashion 1930–1960: Rethinking the Swedish Textile and Clothing Industry. Stockholm, Stockholm University: 179 - 257
–Pellegrini, Ann. 2007. After Sontag: Future Notes on Camp in A Companion to Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Studies. Blackwell Publishing.
–Svendsen, Lars. 2006. Fashion: A philosophy. London, Reaktion Books: 90 - 110
– Urbach, Henry. 1996. Closets, Clothes, Disclosure in Assemblage No. 30, Aug, 1996. The MIT Press.
Expectations of the students
Be prepared to participate, contribute, ask and answer questions, in other words, to explore:
- Are you willing to test new ideas and new ways of thinking?
- Do you promote an environment where everyone feels free to express their ideas and stretch their thinking?
- Do you contribute to the learning environment of the class as a whole by sharing your thoughts and experiences?
There will be about three hours of class time a week and you are expected to work an average of six hours per week outside of class (this includes time spent on individual urban explorations, activity on the discussion board, the development of your journal/lookbook, and the design of the moodboards).
Assessment and Assignments
This course is an 'exploration elective'. Exploration electives are designed to be very interactive and you can expect to spend much of your class time using Stockholm – and Europe – to explore the topics of the course. The scope and quality of the 'exploration' rests on your individual engagement and curiosity as well as on what you add to the concerted exploration of the class as a whole.
- Engagement: Be engaged in class, on field studies and on study tour. Be inquisitive, daring, open-minded. Be patient to allow those who are not so keen on talking in class to gather their thoughts - depth is shaped by thought, not speed. Our guest speakers and people we go to meet are smart and busy people giving us their time. Prepare and respond with all you’ve got.
- Canvas discussions and journal/lookbook: Throughout the course you will be asked to keep a journal to develop your own individual 'lookbook' containing imagery, notes, text, reflections, etc. manifesting your exploration. Input in your journal along with reflections on readings provided by faculty, and input, articles and knowledge from other classes that you research on your own and upload to the discussions segment on Canvas will form part of the assessment.
The Moodboards - an initial definition: A mood board is a type of visual presentation or 'collage' consisting of images, text, and samples of objects in a composition. A mood board can be used to convey a general idea or feeling about a particular topic. They may be physical or digital, and can be effective presentation tools.
- Stockholm moodboard: This is an individual exploration of the textile and fashion urban landscape of your home, Stockholm, Sweden. A mix of sessions on optics (ways of seeing) and tools (ways of documenting) and explorations in the city of Stockholm will help you build your final Stockholm moodboard.
- Helsinki moodboard: This is a team-based exploration of the textile and fashion urban landscape of Helsinki, Finland, the destination of our three-day study tour. The study tour is used to gather material for the moodboard which will be finished when we return to Stockholm. The quality of the final moodboard rests on your teams ability to shape and execute an interesting united exploration of Helsinki.
Grading:
| Assignment |
Percent |
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Engagement in class and on field studies and study tour (Individual) |
20% |
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Canvas discussion board contribution and journal/lookbook development (Individual) |
20% |
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Stockholm Moodboard (Individual) |
30% |
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Helsinki Moodboard (Teams) |
30% |
Individual grades for team assignments may be applied. The course policy is that late assignments are not accepted.
Academic Regulations
Please make sure to read the Academic Regulations on the DIS website. There you will find regulations on:
DIS - Study Abroad in Scandinavia - www.DISabroad.org
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