Fashion Design: Collaboration Studio

3 units

This is a university collaboration course that involves Fashion Design, Occupational Therapy, Mechanical Engineering and Business working together to develop design proposals and prototypes for specific customer profiles. Teams of students from different majors will design for various community and industry partners. They will work to solve an apparel or accessory design problem with innovative new concepts. The team will consider the person's lifestyle and occupation as well as environmental factors that influence a design's functionality. A client-centered approach is used. Students will be evaluated on how well the design proposal meets the expressed aesthetic and functional needs of the client.