Module manager: Elaine Evans
Email: E.L.Evans@leeds.ac.uk
Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable
Year running 2025/26
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This module is not approved as a discovery module
This module builds on, and extends, the research and design development work carried out in semester 1 and is principally concerned with the translation from prototypes developed in semester 1 to final 3D fashion products. Students will sustain their innovative fashion and textiles concepts to realise their fashion products, using appropriate technologies, according to their subject specialisms. Students are encouraged to use their creative and technical skills to challenge traditional manufacturing and design practices to respond to the sociological, technological and environmental challenges facing the global fashion industry.
In this module, students continue with their individual and independent lines of research and enquiry from semester 1 to expand and extend their innovation concept with additional design solutions that address a defined consumer need.
1. Translate effectively from 2-dimensional design work and toiles to final 3-dimensional form in chosen fabrics / structured textiles, using advanced intellectual, creative and technical skills.
2. Demonstrate individual and creative expertise within stated commercial parameters.
3. Develop, evaluate and refine innovative design solutions which meet the needs of a specified consumer group.
4. Communicate advanced design thinking in appropriate visual and written form.
5. Produce prototype garments which demonstrate the specified creative innovation concept.
This module is principally concerned with the development of an innovative contemporary garment collection, which reflects a total individual concept, underpinned by original research. This module is student-led rather than project based; therefore after negotiation and agreement with tutors, students will provide a comprehensive time management plan for how they will carry out work to extend their original concept proposal from semester 1.
Students will be supervised throughout their further design development work, which may include additional sampling, toiling, print development, textile development, among other relevant processes, to extend their innovative design solutions within clearly defined global commercial parameters. Through this process, students contextualise their chosen innovation concept and show an informed understanding of the relevant sociological, cultural, technical, environmental and commercial benefits. The project culminates in the development of prototype outfits in final fabrics which represent their innovation concept.
Students will be encouraged to make use of a range of technologies to seek opportunities for design solutions which meet the needs of contemporary and future consumers, with a particular focus on responsible and sustainable design thinking.
| Delivery type | Number | Length hours | Student hours |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drop-in Session | 20 | 3 | 60 |
| Practical | 11 | 3 | 33 |
| Tutorial | 1 | 0.5 | 0.5 |
| Private study hours | 106.5 | ||
| Total Contact hours | 93.5 | ||
| Total hours (100hr per 10 credits) | 200 | ||
- 30.00 hours: Pattern cutting
- 20.00 hours: Toiling
- 56.50 hours: Construction of final garments including presentation of work
Tutorials with project supervisor on a weekly basis in practical sessions and tutorials at strategic points in the module; this will include a formative self-assessment process, which uses the module learning objectives / levels of assessment to enable students to track their progress. The self-assessment will be discussed, and verbal feedback given, in the week 20 or 21 tutorial.
| Assessment type | Notes | % of formal assessment |
|---|---|---|
| Practical | 2 finished outfits, supported by 2 toiles | 60 |
| Portfolio | Time management plan, further design development and experimentation (e.g. 20 – 30 pages), final boards, including: customer, mood / innovation, colour, fabric / yarn, 20 outfit illustrated collection | 40 |
| Total percentage (Assessment Coursework) | 100 | |
Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated
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Last updated: 30/04/2025
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