PLAIN PROVOKING! Metropolia University Helsinki

Plain Provoking by the textile design students of Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences

http://www.metropolia.fi/en/

The theme for Campus @ Heimtextil 2012-exhibition is Plain Provoking.

To follow the project, see our facebook page

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Plain provoking challenges us to feel emotions that are usually experienced through raging and flagrant images. Plain Provoking wants to be a bit mysterious without being quiet, delicate but not too tender. Are we provoked by similar things?

The theme inspired the second year students to design knitted surfaces and experiment with innovative freeform textile techniques. All the designs ask the questions the theme presents. What is provocation? When can something be considered as provocation? Is there such thing as harmony?

In addition to design courses the exhibition project contained also studies in graphic design, project management, trend research and exhibition production. All studies aimed towards the common goal, to produce a “plain provoking” show to be exhibited at Heimtextil-fair.

Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is one of the most international universities of applied sciences in Finland. The international activities at Metropolia include international degree programmes, student and teacher mobility, work placement opportunities abroad and various projects.

In addition to design courses the exhibition project contained also studies in graphic design, project management, trend research and exhibition production. All studies aimed towards the common goal, to produce a “plain provoking” show to be exhibited at Heimtextil-fair.

Helsinki Metropolia University of Applied Sciences is one of the most international universities of applied sciences in Finland. The international activities at Metropolia include international degree programmes, student and teacher mobility, work placement opportunities abroad and various projects.

Unique approach in Prague Academy of Arts, Architecture and Design

TEXTILE ACTUAL!

www.vsup.cz

 The intention to hold an exhibition at the Frankfurt HEIMTEXTIL Fair 2012 highlights the particular specifics and uniqueness of the textile design studio. In cooperation with the CAMPUS @ HEIMTEXTIL project AAAD will present an overview of students´ work from The Textile Design Studio, showing examples of creative assignments in which students were given complete freedom, outcomes of cooperation with industrial companies and studies of modern technologies and materials, such as nanotechnology and nanofibers

The concept of the Textile Design Studio is based on a comprehensive education of textile designers and on developing their ability to combine more professions, including the insight into new areas which our students need for their work. Pragmatic exercises alternate with creative tasks, based on a completely free attitude. A detached point of view and the awareness of the context are basic preconditions for managing their own work. Through carrying out their projects, our students search for and find their place in society and in the world. An important part of the textile design training at AAAD is the ability of students to criticize and comment on their own or other people´s projects, to come up with their own creative ideas and cooperate as the team. The process of creation is maintained in such a way as to activate the students to start with their own selves, to learn something about their uniqueness and then through this optics perceive the present, look around and react to new impulses that they are later able to enhance in their work.

AAAD graduates should be able to produce works of high-quality fine art (drawings, graphics, tapestry, etc.), to deal with any possible extensive and challenging tasks and to be also able to present their work, defend it and become competitive on the market. The current goal of the textile studio is to open up to the students` cooperation with private companies that work with particular modern technologies. The aim of such cooperation is to overcome the school's theoretical boundaries towards the practice with all its aspects - technological particularities, trends, interconnection with the market, economic aspects, feasibility of the projects, etc.

These tendencies and specifics are also a challenge and commitment for The Textile Design Studio to seek new ways and possibilities of self-presentation. Active approach of students and heads of the studio is becoming a new perspective for the whole field and, subsequently, for its graduates who want to remain the part of the arts and crafts world.

Merging antagonistic forms New Bulgarian University

MERGING

New Bulgarian University

http://www.nbu.bg/entrance.php?lang=1

For the first time we decided to take advantage of the fact that in our department we have both fashion and interior design programs.  So students from both programs started discussing what to do. The clashes were terrific – I had never expected that two - different but not so antagonistic - professions would find nothing in common about the way how to use a beach chair. However, slowly they started finding some sort of mutual understanding. On one hand, the fashion people insisted on using all kinds of natural materials and techniques, on the other hand the interior people wanted rectangular forms, lines, some lighting bands… So, by and by, the two ideas started coming together. The result will be somewhat funny. On one side the beach chair will be bare and rectangular, on the other side it will be cozy, soft and warm. What’s more – it won’t be quite finished, so everybody passing by can knit on and make it longer. For this purpose it will finish by knitting needles and some yarn, so people can experience the joy of knitting.

It was difficult to find the appropriate name for this strange concoction, starting with “A winter cap for a summer beach chair”, etc., etc. However, after a hot brain storm operation we came up with the best possible name – MERGING.

Dora Momekova

Fashion design lecturer

NBU

Redefinition of textile heritage by MOME Budapest

Name: Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest (MOME)

E-mail address: textil@mome.hu

University phone: 00 36 1 392 1168

MOME address: H-1121, BUDAPEST, Zugligeti út 9-25, Hungary

www.mome.hu/en

 

From September 2007, MOME has Bachelor and Master formation, according to the Bologna system, meaning 3+2 years.

MOME has 3 institute (Design-, Architecture- and Media), with about 100 students per year.

The Design institute system promotes multidisciplinary among the domains of Product Design, Fashion and Textile Design, as well as Design and Art Departments. It fosters the pursuit of an interdisciplinary artistic activity, as well as the deepening of an open, integrated way of thinking. Besides, it provides the opportunity to form an active dialogue with the design institutions and professional organizations in the country, in Europe, and all over the world.

The Textile Department accepts 20-25 students per year. So thus, we can give for every student a personal program, and it aids the serious work. The Textile Department’s speciality is the diversity of ative workshops.

MOME is a member of the Cumulus, Cepus and Erasmus program, which means that accept every year foreign students. They are classed on their own level, where they follow the courses all the semester. Generally the scholarship means a total semester (3 or 4 months), but it is possible to have an extra time.

During the academic year we have various courses like felting, bone-lace making, photo and computer design, textile chemical courses...and it is possible to take part in these courses too.

School-year begins from the first week of September. The first term finishes on the middle of December. All January is the time of examinations. The second term starts in the first week of

February and finishes at the end of May. June is the month for the diploma-works.

We focus on training designers, who, based on their in-depth knowledge and creativity are fully capable of implementing design projects in their special field and considering economic and technological requirements as well. As individual designers and employees, they contribute both to the development of textile culture and to the preservation and redefinition of its heritage. Due to their education and creative skills they are able to design individual objects as well as series, working independently or as part of a team.

Textile Arts and Experiments from Lodz

POLAND

STRZEMIŃSKI ACADEMY OF FINE ART AND DESIGN IN ŁÓDŹ (established in 1945)

http://www.asp.lodz.pl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=28&Itemid=129&lang=en 

We express gratitude to our sponsor -  Stiftung für deutsch-polnische Zusammenarbeit / Foundation for Polish-German Cooperation - who supports the participation of Department of Textile Art- Academy of Fine Art and Design in Lodz, in CAMPUS@HEIMTEXTIL 2012.

The Strzeminski ACADEMY OF FINE ARTS in Lodz – POLAND
Department of TextileFour students from the Strzeminski Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Lodz (Poland) present a textile experiment at the CAMPUS@Heimtextil exhibiton 2012. The wicker chair structure (which was given by the Organisers of CAMPUS) is transformed into an art object or a kind of sculpture.
It is manufactured of hundreds of colourful, feather shuttlecocks (each element is unique and was hand-made by students) attached to the nylon net.

The Shuttlecock is the symbol of speed.  It is light and fragile but shockproof and should never fall down, going straight to the target, achieving the aim, reaching the right destination ...just like our students' ideas are !

So, our motto is: ALWAYS ON TARGET !

Team:
Students: Walentyna Balcerzak, Magda Lamch, Paulina Sadrak, Martyna Golik
Tutors: Prof. Lidia Choczaj, Dominika Krogulska – Czekalska M.A.

Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts and Design consists of four faculties, and offers two levels of study : Bachelor and Master of Art

Faculty of Textile Art and Fashion Design

Faculty of Graphic Art and Painting

Faculty of Industrial Design and Interior Architecture

Faculty of Visual Education

FACULTY OF TEXTILE ART AND FASHION DESIGN
Department of Textile Art

The Department of Textile Art Strzemiński Academy of Fine Arts in Lodz is the only unit in Poland

that provides education to students so that they can become highly trained designers, easily dealing

within the field of textile design, widely understood. Specific character of teaching in this faculty rests

on systematic development of both students’ artistic sensitivity and their painting skills. It can be

obtained by combining their experiences from the composition studio and painting design with the

expert knowledge that they gain in four different studios. This kind of method ensures obtaining the

highest qualifications for the future textile designers and, at the same time, allows for far reaching

artistic experiments, which can be regarded as modern art.

Currently, the four studios that are a part of the Department of Textile Art are run by teachers who

have vast both practical and theoretical knowledge of industrial textiles design as well as artistic

achievements which ensure them the place amongst the world’s best “textile artists”.

• The Studio of Decorative Textiles – professor Elżbieta Kędzia, Aneta Anderwald M.A.

• The Studio of Textile Art – professor Lidia Choczaj  Dominika Czekalska M.A.

• The Studio of Innovative Objects for Interior Carpet and Tapestry – professor Jolanta Rudzka-Habisiak, Izabela Walczak M.A.
• The Studio of Paper – professor Ewa Latkowska – Żychska,  Magdalena Soboń Ph.D

Our students’ projects come into being by means of different methods – they can be either hand made, for instance with the use of traditional painting techniques or they can be made with the use of specialist computer applications and software. This enables their implementation both in the school’s weaving plants and on the premises of companies we cooperate with, using the newest technologies. Moreover, textile companies are our allies as far as finding new ways of designers’ training is concerned. They allow students to complete both their coursework and, later on, a diploma; they organize trainings, sponsor certain contests and initiate artistic and integrating activities for young designers. One of such activities is ‘rooms for free’ program, within the framework of which we cooperate with16 schools from Europe, which specialize in textile design.

Sustainability to the forefront by HTW Berlin

Sustainability becomes increasingly important for design, materials and production of textiles. This aspect is reflected in the exhibits of the fashion designers at HTW Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin: Digital fashion prints inspired by nature; cushions made from knitted recycled materials; interior accessoires from digital prints; a collection with models made from sustainably produced Indian fabrics.        www.f5.htw-berlin.de

HTW Berlin, Studiengang Modedesign, Bachelor und Master

An der Hochschule für Technik und Wirtschaft Berlin kann Modedesign als Bachelor- und als Masterstudium absolviert werden.

Schwerpunkte des Studiums sind die Vermittlung von Kenntnissen und Fähigkeiten auf den Gebieten Modellentwurf und Kollektionsentwicklung, Schnittentwicklung, fachspezifische Technologien, weiterhin Management und Marketing.

Dazu gehört auch das besondere Augenmerk für die Oberfläche, aus der die Mode besteht, die maßgeblich deren Reiz mitbestimmt und mit der neue Aspekte in die Mode eingebracht werden.

Im Rahmen von Studienprojekten entstanden in den Studienklassen von Professor Andrea Engelmann die auf der Heimtextil 2012 ausgestellten Exponate. Mit dem Schwerpunkt Digitaldruck auf Textil beschäftigte sich ein Master-Projekt. Die Motive wurden für die Spezifik des Inkjetdrucks entwickelt, in der Umsetzung der Modelle wurden die Motive im Schnittbild platziert und ausgedruckt.

Die Inspirationen sind zum Teil themenbezogen, oft dienen Formen, Muster und Strukturen aus der Natur als Anregung. Zunehmend spielt der Aspekt der Nachhaltigkeit beim Design, beim Material und bei Überlegungen zur Herstellung eine Rolle.

So entstanden im Masterstudiengang Modedesign/Bekleidungstechnik/ Konfektion an der HTW Berlin in Zusammenarbeit mit der Firma „Lebenskleidung“ vielfältige Ideen, um die Spezifik von in Indien nachhaltig hergestellten Stoffen absatzfähiger herauszustellen und diesen Stoffen zu einem breiteren Einsatz in der Mode zu verhelfen.

In Zusammenarbeit mit der Berliner Firma eicie wurden im Bachelorstudium im 6. Semester Entwürfe für Interieuraccessoires mit Digitaldruck umgesetzt.

In einem anderen Master-Projekt wurden Kissenbezüge aus recyceltem Material mit Strick kombiniert und variabel gestaltet. Die Kollektion besteht aus 3 Basisformen  wiederverwerteter Materialien, die sich mit Strickelementen kombinieren lassen.

Diese sind an Handstrickmaschinen gefertigt und bieten vielfältige Gestaltungsmöglichkeiten. Im Blickpunkt der Kollektion stehen Nachhaltigkeit und Individualität. Die Idee führte zur Gründung eines Labels.

Bonding by ORBITATO from Brazil

Students from the third class of Post Graduation Course in Creation and Developing of Fashion and Design Products receive orientation from Jum Nakao, who works as a professor at Orbitato in Santa Catarina, Brazil. 

http://www.orbitato.com.br/

The renowned creative director leads the students through the creative process of collection development from the group’s search for meanings of the action “wear”.

Jum Nakao, continuing the educational process accomplished in all of the subjects studied through the course, carries the process in a flawless and accurate way, reorganizing thoughts and giving back value to actions which are creative, but might become mechanic in an industrial environment – which is the reality lived by most of the group.

 The concept of bonding and relationship came up in the Product Creation discipline, proposed by Argentine teacher Alejandro Sarmiento, and served as a creative axis for the class. Intensive search for meanings and possibilities for this concept, in material and formal aspects as much as in aesthetical and moral aspects, resulted in individual and collective maturation, where human bonds emerge as the answer to the needs of the complex contemporary moment.

The proposition of Idea Crossing from Campus Heimtextil is the perfect invitation for the group to finish their process in time to exhibit the results in Frankfurt, in January 2012, contributing for the debate about the movement of ideas.

http://www.jumnakao.com/

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