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The paper explores the pedagogies currently used in teaching fashion design, emphasizing the need to enrich them according to student needs and the reality of practice. It examines the role of design thinking and experimentation in enhancing students' thought processes at the early stage of creation.
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The fashion design creative process is quite complex. It involves conceptual, esthetical, and technical aspects that hardly fit a rigid academic framework. While the building blocks of this process were coined by recent literature, less obvious yet significant aspects of inspiration, such as introspection, experimentation, or hybridization, are less explored. Samples of students' works analyzed here illustrate the effectiveness of alternative approaches inspired by design thinking.
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Teaching fashion design studios at the undergraduate level (especially to fresh students with no previous background in art or design) provided me with valuable insights that eventually shaped my teaching methodology. I learned that pedagogies in fashion education should be more flexible and customized according to student needs and the reality of practice. I hope this article inspires other academics to introduce alternative teaching strategies that complement the current pedagogies for fashion design.
Lavinia Ban
University of Oradea, Romania
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This page is a summary of: Inspired: Exploring creative pedagogies at the early stage of the fashion design process, Art Design & Communication in Higher Education, April 2023, Intellect,
DOI: 10.1386/adch_00070_1.
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