FSAD 1250

Fashion, Art and Design Thinking

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

Introduction to the visual arts and design that explores aesthetic and cross-cultural dimensions of fashion as a visual, material, and embodied practice. Lectures emphasize the intersections between fashion, art, and design through slide presentations, historical artifacts from the Cornell Fashion + Textile Collection, hands-on activities, and discussions. We consider social, cultural, political, aesthetic, scientific, economic, and historical aspects of fashion design, visual expression, and everyday embodied dressing.

Fees REF-FA25 Materials, $30. Embroidery supplies and natural dye scarf.

Last 3 terms offered 2024FA, 2023FA, 2022FA

Learning Outcomes REF-FA25

• Enhance their ability to think visually, and communicate ideas in visual ways.
• Become familiar with the principles and elements of design, and be able to use design language to discuss and evaluate designed objects.
• Learn about the different media of fine arts and design, and understand the limitations and opportunities offered to the designer by various materials, techniques, and technologies.
• Understand important changes in fine arts, decorative arts, and design as they have occurred in various cultural, economic, and social contexts across time.
• Approach design from a critical perspective that centers questions of justice, equity, and inclusion.

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