MA Fashion and Textiles Innovation and New Applications

Comments about MA Fashion and Textiles Innovation and New Applications - At the institution - Galashiels - Scottish Borders

• Course description
  The design of the programme also encourages inter-disciplinary projects reflecting the School's strategy of creative collaborations between subject areas to foster design innovation.
  
  Objectives
  •Challenge traditional and contemporary uses of fashion and textiles, as well as creating the opportunity to promote new approaches and processes in fashion and textiles
  
  •Provide students with the knowledge, skills and competencies to meet the diverse demands of the fashion and textile industries
  
  •Encourage, in inter-disciplinary projects, creative collaborations between subject areas to foster innovation
  
  •Develop an inter-disciplinary understanding of key issues relating to the design, management and innovation in fashion and textiles
  
  •Develop competent and confident professionals for the global fashion and textiles industries with an in-depth understanding of the creative process and its management in international and local contexts.
  
  Structure
  Students negotiate with their supervisor to concentrate on an appropriate area of study to acquire knowledge and expertise in an area of fashion and textiles that supports their individual project intended outcome. The areas available across the School reflect the breadth of expertise relevant to fashion and textiles.
  
  Semester 1
  •Design context
  •Creative and Critical Thinking: Research principles
  •Management Studies in Design
  •Fashion and Textile Practice and Expertise
  
  Semester 2
  •Design Technologies and Textiles Futures
  •Reflective Practice to plan the agreed course of study
  •Industrial placement
  •Fashion and Textile Practice and Expertise
  
  Semester 3
  •Masters Project: the realisation of an innovation and new applications through a prototype

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