FSAD 1250 - Fashion, Art and Design Thinking

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

D. Green.

Introduction to the visual arts and design that explores aesthetic and cross-cultural dimensions of fashion as a visual, material, and embodied practice. Lectures emphasize the intersections between fashion, art, and design through slide presentations, historical artifacts from the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, hands-on activities, and discussions. We consider social, cultural, political, aesthetic, scientific, economic, and historical aspects of fashion design, visual expression, and everyday embodied dressing.

Outcome 1: Enhance their ability to think visually, and communicate ideas in visual ways.

Outcome 2: Become familiar with the principles and elements of design, and be able to use design language to discuss and evaluate designed objects.

Outcome 3: Learn about the different media of fine arts and design, and understand the limitations and opportunities offered to the designer by various materials, techniques, and technologies.

Outcome 4: Understand important changes in fine arts, decorative arts, and design as they have occurred in various cultural, economic, and social contexts across time.

Outcome 5: Approach design from a critical perspective that centers questions of justice, equity, and inclusion.