The contents of the course

The contents of the course

Winter 2006-2007

One part of Remembering the Future-course are this virtual lectures: An international group of students at The University of Art and Design in Helsinki will work together through the winter 2006-2007.

During the intensive course in Helsinki, students have a great possibility to develop their thoughts and ideas based on the studies of different folk traditions. Visits to the most important museums and specialist meetings make an important part of the intensive course.

The studies are including also other virtual material, books, research, sketching and design. As a result of these studies is a research material made during the intensive course, designs based on new ideas grown during the course. Students are working together in Moodle environment. At the end of the Remembering the Future-course “Refu” virtual material will get a new alive section.

Winter 2005-2006

One part of Remembering the Future-course is virtual lectures: An international group of students will work together in the Fle3 web environment through the winter 2005-2006.

During the intensive work-shops in Tallinn, Helsinki and Eindhoven, students have a great possibility to develop their thoughts and ideas based on the studies of three different folk traditions. Visits to the most important museums and specialist meetings make an important part of the international reunions. As a result of these work-shops is an international exhibition at the end of the Remembering the Future-course.

Please note the main literature given by your own and fellow universities. There you will find the basic knowledge you need to get in to the international discussion of tradition in clothing and textile as soon as possible. More connected literal material and web links you will find among the virtual material on the way.

The national part of the course includes lectures by the teacher of the course and specialists. Visits make a big part of the program: museums and collections of rarities are specified to different thematic wholes of national traditions.
Given tasks are pointed to a develop designer’s vision of new possibilities in garment and textile design. The national part includes an exhibition in the Museum of Cultures “Is there something new for design in history?”

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