Master in Fashion Design and Technology

Module 1 – Design for change

Assisted by speculative design, new technologies applied to fashion and debates with sector professionals and specialists, the first module will prepare students for the shift that is about to occur in the fashion system.

• Speculative fashion design. A theoretical block that will introduce a future where fashion will be considered in a different way.
• Fashion Future Laboratory. Debating the fashion system with specialists and professionals who will impart an understanding of the realities of the sector and the complex world of fashion; visualising strategies, methods and models of development that will validate our creative process.
• Introduction to new technologies in fashion. Covering the possibilities that technology offers for innovation and change towards a new paradigm and more sustainable systems within the larger fashion system.

Module 2 – Digital systems for a new fashion paradigm

Today’s fashion design programs and digital software provide access to tools that are sufficiently agile and flexible to redirect the production system chain towards a more creative and sustainable future. Customisable digital body modelling, direct design on the body using 3D simulation and new research systems in computer pattern making will revolutionise the way we envisage fashion creation, reduce time usage, broaden our design skills, and also allow us to embrace artistic research in digital contexts.

• Construction of the digital body. Flexibility, mutation and deconstruction. Open codes of production. Eco-couture
• Dressing the body in a digital context with 3D design program CLO.4.0
• Art and digital media and how to research in digital environments and virtual realities
• Connections with compatible formats of digital pattern making. Gerber software

Module 3 – Strategies, methodologies and research systems in fashion

This module will contextualise fashion design, providing it with multidisciplinary tools and methodologies that are used in other fields, such as ethnography and social innovation, to create a design that is focused, real and connected with the user. Furthermore, extreme fashion design proposals will be analysed along with the way in which the market absorbs any idea of dissident design.

• Ethnographic methodologies, field research and social innovation applied to fashion design
• Management and promotion of innovation projects. Collaboration with ESADE through management simulations and business games
• Creation, distribution and positioning
• Theoretical block. Fashion activism – hacking fashion – disobedient design: dressing the body as a political statement.
• Interactive tools. Electronics, e-textiles, wearables, soft sensor, soft robotics, skin electronics.

Module 4 – Technologies and material innovations

Fashion design can be approached from the perspective of working with materials, not only with smart textiles and those which are provided by technology, but as a material basis that requires contemporary design decisions which combine sustainable solutions, innovation and craftsmanship. We will experiment with uncommon materials by applying both digital and manual technologies in the creative process, which will help to link it to the environment.

• Sustainability. Upcycling
• Digital Manufacturing Modular systems, seamless laser-cut patterns, chainmail systems, structures and flexibles in 3D printing
• Natural biomaterials and dyes
• Conductive filaments
• Thermosensitive material

Module 5 – Prototyping and finishing resources. Master's Degree Final Project

This last module will be developed through a manufacturing and prototyping laboratory, providing tools for the realisation of projects. In addition, a theoretical block on body, gender and diversity will introduce students to the current discussions and issues that are fundamental to the fashion of the future. The module will also work with art direction to attain a well-oriented aesthetic result that transforms the project into a professional visual proposal.

• Theoretical block on body, gender and diversity
• Prototyping as a creator of new aesthetics. Garment finishes through the application of available technologies such as laser cutting, embedding or heat sealing
• Photography, visual communication and art direction