The Design and Textiles course focuses on design thinking and the application of the design process to create and develop practical solutions using textiles as a medium. This will empower students to utilise design thinking in different contexts.

Students learn about the design and related industries by exploring; fundamentals of design, emerging technologies, textile futures, history and culture, sustainability and ethics.

Students apply innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration and project management skills in making appropriate design solutions.

Design and Textiles is an interdisciplinary course of study and forms the basis for further education and employment in the design fields such as interior design or decoration, personal styling, fashion design, industrial design, costume design, production manufacture, architecture, landscape architecture and textile technologies.

The Design and Textiles course is written under The TECHNOLOGIES FRAMEWORK 2019: BSSS TECHNOLOGIES Framework

Achievement Standards for TECHNOLOGIES courses can be found within the Framework.

Students will demonstrate knowledge of research, skills of ideation and design, prototyping production, solution testing and communication of their understanding. Technologies promotes deep learning, creativity and innovation.

Design Aesthetics

This unit examines the value of aesthetics and its relationship to design theory. Students engage with established methodologies for generating creative design concepts. They investigate and experiment with strategies for idea generation and product development, incorporating the medium of textiles.

Design for Purpose

This unit examines how designers create for end purpose, using relevant criteria and considering the user’s experience. Students engage using a range of textile mediums to design solutions and create a product with consideration given to needs, purpose and product performance.

Design for Futures

This unit examines the future of design within the context of textiles. Students examine technological tools and processes to create solutions and/or products for the 21^st century, with special consideration given to sustainability.

Design for Communication

This unit examines communication theories, methodologies and meanings within the area of design and textiles. Students develop skills in effectively disseminating ideas to convey visual messages in the design, making and promotion of solutions and/or textiles products. They utilise a range of tools to communicate and make meaning.

Independent Study

An Independent Study unit has an important place in senior secondary courses. It is a valuable pedagogical approach that empowers students to make decisions about their own learning. An Independent Study unit can be proposed by an individual student for their own independent study and negotiated with their teacher. The program of learning for an Independent Study unit must meet the unit goals and content descriptions as they appear in the course. Students must have studied at least THREE standard 1.0 units from this course. A student can only study a maximum of one Independent study unit in each course. An Independent Study unit requires the principal’s written approval. Independent study units are only available to individual students in Year 12. Principal approval is also required for a student in Year 12 to enrol concurrently in an Independent unit and the third 1.0 unit in a course of study.

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The following courses are also available:

• Designed Environments
• Design and Graphics
• Design and Technology Integrated
• Design and Emerging Technologies