Language of Dress
The Fashion Major at Curtin University embraces new technologies to advance fashion design knowledge and skills as a digital transformation takes place in the global fashion industry and develops competencies in digital fashion software, and a critical understanding of technology-based fashion.
The third-year unit, FASH3000 Language of Dress engages students in the development of works that investigate the fashion object and making from the paradigm of ‘beyond garment’.
Using the extremities of the body as the starting point for design development, with the head, feet and forms conventionally described as accessories the specific design focus.
Students investigate the design and creation of 3D objects through engagement with a range of DBE Makerspace workshops to experiment with biomaterials, 3D rendering, 3D printing, laser cutting, moulding, modeling, sculpting, woodwork and metalsmithing, reflecting new ways of thinking and working through practice-led research into forms, materials, and technique contextualised by contemporary fashion theory.
INAR2024:
Design and fabricate a lighting unit that evokes the user’s emotion and is able to add a positive
spatial experience.
This unit is designed to enable you to create a design concept, then engage through a process of exploration, testing and implementation of a creative solution to produce a final product. The final practices of created design relate to a lighting unit. The design process will introduce you to boarder making applications. These are necessary to align with:
- The functional, interactional and usability of this product
- The understanding and practices of environmental sustainability applications
concerning the selection of materials and production technology - Communicating applied design process and its resolutions digitally and physically.
Unit Coordinator: Dr Qassim Saad
Lecturers: Dr Qassim Saad & Samuel Crowley
