FA5037 - Styling and Curation 2

You will attend weekly sessions, where workshops will assist you in developing your practice and your understanding of spaces,methods of communication and audience engagement. You will fully immerse yourself in the brief and theme outlined at the start of the module. Traditional menthods and emerging technologies will be discussed and developed alongside staff within workshops, identifying and exploring a range of experimental techniques appropriate to executing your vision of a ‘fashion space’. Visual communication and styling techniques and methods including photography will be further supported by technical and academic staff. Peer discussion will inform tutorial sessions and allow best practice to be identified. Where possible, you will ‘pitch’ your concepts and ideas alongside small peer groups, where formative feedback will encourage development of work.

Focused support through tutorial sessions will assist in refining your final portfolio of work for submission, encouraging you to communicate your concept in depth.

An initial briefing will outline the goals of the module, alongside the structure of the sessions to follow. Workshops will be delivered by knowledgeable staff, often reflecting their own research interests and professional experience linked to the Fashion Communication sector. Where applicable, technical skills will be delivered by expert staff, providing demonstrations and support for students across their process. Where possible, industry experts will provide further insight through guest lectures aligned to fashion space and styling practice Concepts of space and visualisation of spatial themes will be supported through the use of appropriate craft/technological processes. Tutorials will help you to further develop your final submission and identify areas for improvement Group work/peer discussion linked to the ongoing improvement of your practice will assist your development in terms of knowledge, understanding and communication skills.

Further support regarding academic writing will be provided via the University Library.

All modules at Northumbria include a range of reading materials that students are expected to engage with. The reading list for this module can be found at: http://readinglists.northumbria.ac.uk
(Reading List service online guide for academic staff this containing contact details for the Reading List team – http://library.northumbria.ac.uk/readinglists)

Knowledge & Understanding:
1. Independently source and engage with a broad range of research material, and demonstrate your ability to review, reflect on and evaluate findings.
2. Demonstrate through enquiry-based and creative practice, your advanced understanding of functional, psychological, and aesthetic principles of Fashion Communication styling and space.


Intellectual / Professional skills & abilities:
3. Create concepts, proposals or solutions that appropriately respond to clearly identified needs or issues.

Personal Values Attributes (Global / Cultural awareness, Ethics, Curiosity) (PVA):
4. Demonstrate a professional attitude to your studies through engagement with programme staff, peer interactivity; and through project management skills such as the investigation, organisation, curation, realisation and presentation of your activities.
5. Take an experimental approach when challenged to conceive and visualise fresh or innovative ideas.

FORMATIVE: Formative feedback will be delivered across the module. This can be verbal and/or textual and will be aligned to workshop activities.

SUMMATIVE
Final Portfolio 100%:
inc. synopsis of concept, visualisation of space, and imagery denoting styling within the environment. A Research and Development file will also be included to demonstrate process and investigation of relevant topics, including reflective commentary. (LO1,2,3,4,5)

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This module combines theory, philosophy and craft, asking you to immerse yourself within contemporary concepts of fashion space and styling. You conceptualise and fabricate your own ‘fashion space’, considering notions of immersion and engagement of audiences alongside the relevance of fashion narratives within space. You will consider and visualise spaces linked to events, promotions, visual merchandising, installations, shows and more. You will consider styling through the aesthetic of the spaceas part of the overall narrative theme. The final outcome of the module is an articulation of the conceived space, utilising existing and emerging technologies to capture your vision in a manner in a professional format.