Materialized Knowledge
Undergraduate course
- ECTS credits
- 10
- Teaching semesters Autumn
- Course code
- PRO201
- Number of semesters
- 1
- Teaching language
- English and Norwegian
- Resources
Course description
Supplementary semester information
Focus area(s): TEXTILES
Module Leader: TIM PARRY-WILLIAMS
Teachers: TIM PARRY-WILLIAMS, INGRID AARSET, 脜SE ERIKSEN
Included HMS: TEXTILES (see below)
This module focuses on the fundaments and opportunities of building and affecting textile. It includes introduction and advancement of understanding of a variety of subject-specific methods and mediums: Print/Dye will explore different approaches to the colouring and manipulation of cloth, whilst Weave will investigate both analogue and digital techniques of textile construction. This is a hands-on programme encouraging free thinking, expression and discovery, and the development of practical and cognitive skills in the creation of textiles. Through tacit and cognitive experimentation, studio work will encourage thinking around appropriate techniques and methodologies, towards expression of individual voice. Workshop practice will facilitate understanding and skills for autonomous working practices with textile processes.
You are encouraged to select Printed+Dyed OR Woven Textiles. However, a combination may be feasible. Knitted, Stitched or Manipulated Textile methods are also possible and 'colouring' or dyeing is an open consideration.
HMS sessions will be included as necessary/required in:
- Cone Winder / Ball winder
- Warping Mill
- Hank Winder
- Colour Mixing (Dye stuffs)
- Screen Printing
- Steamer / Steaming
- Yarn dyeing
- Cloth dyeing
- Heat Press
- Laser Cutter
- Sewing Machines
Objectives and Content
This is a project-based module with a focus on material processes, embodied knowledge, and the relationships between matter, making, reason, and the unknown.
PRO modules are designed to enrich your artist development (as explored in the ART modules) through activating skills, connecting communities of practice, and investigating disciplinary territories. PRO modules allow you to focus on a specific project critically connected to your own practice within a context established by the module leader(s).
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge
- Develop awareness of relevant references and practices
Skills
- Explore relevant material approaches to the creation of works of art
- Enhance and broaden your own skills and processes through the creation of a self-initiated project
General Competence
- Identify your own learning needs in relation to the subject area(s)
- Demonstrate a consideration of the relationship between making and meaning
- Develop and present new work
Teaching and learning methods
Methods may include:
- Project development
- Individual research
- Group work
- Lectures
- Presentations
- Group discussions
- Tutorials
- Assigned readings
- Writing exercises
- Workshop-based instruction
See info text above for semester-specific details.
Forms of Assessment
Submission of artwork(s), either physical or digital, as assigned by the module leader.
Assessment criteria:
Research
Subject knowledge
Experimentation
Realization
Collaborative and independent work