Guest Speakers’ Series
You’ll join students across the School of Fashion and Textiles for our Industry Guest Speakers’ Series – you’ll hear from people with diverse backgrounds, skills and career paths representing the diversity of our student community, to inspire you to kick-start your thinking about your own career journey.
Looking through images
You’ll be introduced to core ideas and principles involved in making fashion images. You’ll consider the technological advances throughout the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, and through location-based photography be exposed to, and experiment with, a range of approaches.
Equality diversity and inclusion - creative identities
You’ll be asked to explore and discover yourself and introduce who you are to your peers. This will be achieved through an individual creative outcome that explores their own history. To understand who they are, we ask learners to look at their friends and family and investigate their own history, or the history of others around them. We are shaped by our environment, customs, traditions and beliefs and we have become who we are because of the people who have influenced us in some way. We have both the biological family and the family we create. We want you to think imaginatively about presenting your findings in a creative document.
Aspirations
You’ll reflect upon editorial, commercial and historical practice and pre-existing outputs, collaborating in small teams to reproduce an image using photographic approaches. You will be given the opportunity to re-interpret chosen images to disrupt and develop the original reading.
Hackathon
In your first Opportunity Week, you’ll work with others on a high-intensity project. You’ll use a new piece of software or equipment to familiarise yourself with the technology that is becoming ubiquitous in the industry. For instance, you may be asked to design a website, an Instagram filter, an avatar, a virtual garment or digital prints.
Displacements
You will be introduced to a range of approaches to fashion image-making; technological, ethical and conceptual, and learn the ways that objects and bodies are positioned in front of a lens to create meaning and debate. You’ll be introduced to analogue photography and essential studio skills, including controlled lighting, pose and performance.
Publications and outputs
You’ll reflect upon publishing, dissemination and disruption within Fashion Photography, learning about issues surrounding copyright, appropriation, montage, lo-fi self-publishing, desktop publishing, global contexts and markets. You’ll have the opportunity to work collaboratively with students from other courses within the School of Fashion and Textiles to produce an output that is playful, disruptive, and aimed at a specified market/ audience.
Business of Fashion
You’ll be introduced to the fundamental principles of fashion business and practices through a global lens. You’ll learn about how the macro environment affects the fashion industry sector and consumer groups and how it operates, introducing you to the various market levels and sectors, as well as industry structure, supply chain, distribution, marketing and commercialisation of products and services to end-users.
ATOM Activities
ATOM activities are small pieces of individual learning that facilitate interdisciplinary exposure across UCA, and offer a flexible, impactful learning experience. They expand your creative horizon by accessing learning topics that would not otherwise be scheduled on your course specific timetable.
PLE Digital Outcomes
The PLE Digital Outcome is a purposefully edited, self-directed record of your constructive, level 4 engagement with and presence on, digital media platforms across the year.