Bachelor of Design in Fashion and Textiles Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation

This course is tailored for aspiring fashion and textiles professionals seeking to hone their design skills with a forward-thinking approach. Choose this course to immerse yourself in a practice-based learning environment that prioritises innovation, creativity, and responsible design. Stand out with a distinctive transdisciplinary perspective that integrates diverse fields, preparing you to tackle complex challenges and seize unexplored opportunities in the modern landscape.

You will gain a robust understanding of contemporary fashion and textiles, underpinned by a commitment to professional practice and international market awareness. Through design studios, you'll engage in practice-oriented projects that mirror industry processes, fostering creativity and future-focused thinking. Collaborative and individual projects, often linked with industry or cultural partners, will refine your professional skills.

The teaching methodology is interactive and hands-on, blending individual and group work with real-world projects and industry experiences. You'll develop high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving skills, leading to innovative and entrepreneurial outcomes. Acquire competencies in critical and creative thinking, invention, and future scenario planning, equipping you to excel in a rapidly evolving global market.

The course centres on design studios which integrate practice-oriented learning about specific fashion and textile projects, and parallels the process that professionals undertake in industry. There is strong emphasis on creativity, experimentation and future thinking in the fashion industry. Professional practice is embedded in all fashion studios and builds on contemporary industry practice with a focus on international fashion markets. Projects are developed through individual and group work, and are often tied to external projects with industry or cultural partners.

By focusing on the high-level conceptual thinking and problem-solving practices that lead to the development of innovative, creative and entrepreneurial outcomes, students of the combined degree also gain leading edge capabilities that are highly valued in the globalised world including dealing with critical and creative thinking, invention, complexity, innovation, future scenario building and entrepreneurship, and the ability to work on their own across disciplines. These creative intelligence competencies enable graduates to navigate in a rapidly changing world.