MA Digital Fashion Innovation - Arts University

The MA Digital Fashion Innovation program empowers students with the latest digital tools and technologies to become responsible and innovative design professionals. It emphasizes critical thinking, exploration, and sustainability, equipping students to address contemporary fashion industry challenges. The program's flexible structure and focus on individual exploration cater to students from diverse backgrounds and experience levels.

Program Outline

Outline:

The MA Digital Fashion Innovation program comprises two units, each divided into sub-projects.

Unit 1: Strategies for practice

This unit consists of various projects revisiting the fundamentals of digital fashion.
Introduces students to the digital and practical fashion tools required for the course.
Encourages students to analyze and critically evaluate how their practice is manifested in their work.
Provides opportunities to engage in shared sessions with other postgraduate students within the "postgraduate network."
Offers subject specialist sessions specifically tailored to individual MA courses.
Assists students in identifying relevant theories and research methods suitable for their focus area.
Guides students in generating new knowledge and understanding to inform and establish their Masters Project proposal.

Unit 2: Master's Project

Divided into two parts:
Exploration:
Implementation: Students carry through their plan of action identified in their proposal and establish ways of presenting and disseminating the outcomes of their creative design project, communicating their outcome to both specialist and non-specialist audiences.

Part-time pathway

Teaching:

The program utilizes industry-standard software including CLO3D, Unreal Engine, Twinmotion, and Browzwear.
Resources include five fashion design studios, three digital studios, workshop resources, 3D printing, industrial sewing, laser cutters, leather machinery, and dye room facilities.
Access to a digital print hub with Mimaki, sublimation, and UV printing capabilities.
Students can utilize the VR Suite, digital loom, and body scanner.

Other:

The program emphasizes critical thinking and innovation in creative design practice.
Encourages students to develop exploration and discovery through a focused and critical approach to reflective inquiry and future design practice.
Aims to equip designers with the skills to apply a systematic process of questioning existing ideas and use innovative design methods to analyze and comprehend problems and behaviors.
Guides students to generate alternative, creative, and experimental design solutions.
Addresses fashion industry issues such as resource abuse, waste disposal, and chemical pollution.
Encourages a conscious and considered approach to designing and realizing fashion products.
The program can be studied full- or part-time from September or full-time from January.
Students are encouraged to take intellectual and creative risks while exploring their chosen practices and positioning them within their chosen external, creative, economic, and cultural environment.
Emphasis on offering distinctive, exciting, and challenging opportunities for students to engage in their respective subject disciplines.

Summary:

The MA Digital Fashion Innovation program provides students with the knowledge and skills to become responsible and innovative design professionals. The program equips students with the latest digital tools and technologies, enabling them to address contemporary fashion industry challenges and design with a sustainable and ethical approach. The program's flexible structure and focus on individual exploration make it suitable for students from various backgrounds and experience levels.