Materials and Techniques

Catalog description

Focuses on inventive approaches to the development and realization of contemporary fashion textiles and surface manipulation. Technology and skills inform the design process and foster creativity. Students on this evolving material matter (mixed-media) pathway embrace a full spectrum of materiality, from craft processes to cutting-edge bio-materials. Framed by a series of key principles that pave the way toward a more sustainable material future, those techniques champion radically different approaches. Carefully considers the future of textile design and production through research and consideration of the environmental, social and cultural impact of textiles on a global level. A dual emphasis is placed on the innovative use of traditional hand and craft techniques with digital processes to promote the idea of sustaining textile crafts in the future.