5th Semester Textile Design

CONTEXT

The focus of the module is on process, shaping and acting in a social context. Students leave their own comfort zone, seek and discover foreign perspectives and develop empathy for other groups in order to build new knowledge together. Looking beyond one's own nose, thanks to transdisciplinarity, promotes diversity and variety in the context of design education. Special attention is paid to cooperation and communication with people from organisations (neighbourhood association, meeting place for foreigners), citizens' initiatives (urban gardening) or social institutions (homeless shelters, old people's homes, etc.). Design is communication here.

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG): 
4 – Quality education/knowledge transfer 
5 – Gender equality
10 – Less inequalities

PERSPECTIVES

The module is process-oriented and builds on the CONTEXT module. The aim is to go through a self-positioning process in order to write a concept for the subsequent BA thesis. This is implemented during the BA thesis in the real laboratory.  
The module requires students to engage with the network, contextualise within design discourse and engage with the production and consumer system. The investigation of the interface between the conceptual idea and its possible implementation is critically questioned in terms of function, sustainability and aesthetic quality in the laboratory and workshops using an experimental approach. 
Practical input is complemented by viewpoints from research and design theory. Students analyse the impact of their concept idea on the environment, on the social impact and develop an individual attitude for their project.  

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG):
4 – High quality education/knowledge transfer 
12 – Sustainable consumption and production, supply chains

Perspectives-projects from previous years

2023

2022

2021

2020

Interdisciplinary projects from previous years

MY VOTE, YOUR VOTE

Swiss women have had a political say for just 50 years. This year, we are celebrating this dubious anniversary extensively, paying tribute to the courageous and committed pioneers, but also taking a critical look at where we stand. What does a look back teach us? Which demands from back then have still not been met? How and where do inequality and discrimination manifest themselves today? Who still has no voice today?Textile design students have this exchange with women they met through HelloWelcome, a meeting place for refugees and locals in Lucerne. Together they serve up – not light fare, but a canon of textile voices applied to tablecloths and napkins.

CUSTOM-MADE

In the first part of the interdisciplinary module, each student was asked to look at their own work and to summarise their own competence profile in a showreel. The result was a portfolio without words that reflects, classifies and communicates one's own work. In the second part of the project, the change of perspective was practised. Tailor-made projects were developed in interdisciplinary teams and the students slipped into the role of the client of a fictitious task on the one hand. On the other hand, they acted as a design agency that had to implement the design assignment to the satisfaction of their clients.

Km 0 - from here we measure 

With the SDG#12: Responsible Consumption and Production and the associated concept of the Circular Economy, our profession is directly addressed. What role do we as designers play in the global structure? Where can we get involved in this circular economy?
Starting from our new location on the site of the Viscosi City – our new Km 0 – the students of textile and object design explored the surroundings for possible fields of action. This field research, but also workshops, thought games and theoretical inputs formed the basis on which products or services based on the concept of circularity were developed.
Trying out, playing through and reflecting were in the foreground, failure was explicitly allowed. 
The projects were submitted to the CUMULUS GREEN AWARD 2020.

Cybercity

In the daring Cybercity project, producer Mirko Borscht transforms three disused halls on the Viscosi site into a walk-in film studio where the boundaries between reality and the virtual dissolve. The students of object design and textile design dive into this universe and develop in mixed teams visions for various elements of the production. Their expansive installations, portable sound objects and equipment of entire cyber-clans contribute significantly to the aesthetics and materialization of the staging. In March and April 2019 the play was performed at the Viscosi site.

Opus Co Opera

Under the creative direction of Kostas Murkudis, Object Design and Textile Design students created a stage set for a production of Claudio Monteverdi’s Marienvesper (1610) on behalf of the Theater Luzern. The play was performed in April 2017 at the Jesuit Church of Lucerne.

How Far Is Here? On the Viscosity of Spaces

In 2015 the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art relocated to Viscosistadt in Emmenbrücke. The design of the new lounge area fell to groups of students specialising in Interior Design, Object Design and Textile Design, forming interdisciplinary teams whom the university commissioned to produce competition entry proposals. The winning project was realised in the lobby area in front of the cinema. The lounge provides additional seating for the nearby cafeteria, or can be used simply as a place to meet, wait or mingle.

Open Water, Open Space

The former municipal public baths in Biregg was shut down but then given a new lease of life as the “Neubad”, a centre for cultural events and gastronomy that also provides artists’ studios, new employment opportunities and, not least, a vital impetus for Lucerne’s urban development. A student group was commissioned to plan the location’s new temporary usage in light of its historical connection with water.

Remember Lucerne

How can a tourist’s experience of the city be shaped so as to remain lastingly memorable? What are tourists’ needs today, and what will they be in the future? What makes Lucerne attractive and exclusive? And how might design heighten the city’s appeal? Student groups took an interdisciplinary approach to answering these questions and then presented their findings in the form of an exhibition produced together with the Historisches Museum Luzern entitled REMEMBER LUCERNE – TOURISMUS GESTALTEN (DESIGNING TOURISM), which ran there from 27.09.2013 to 09.03.2014.

Doppelleben (Dual Existence)

Who has never imagined leading a double life, either in secret or in their fantasy? Students of Material Design, Object Design, Textile Design and Interior Design examined this question in a multidisciplinary project.

La Table (The Table)

This was the first multidisciplinary semester project produced by the Schools of Design, Film and Art and of Engineering and Architecture from the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, tackling the questions: How does our dining table look? How might we best design it? In multidisciplinary groups, students of Textile Design, Object Design, Material Design and Interior Design elaborated initial concepts that then served as inspiration for their individual design proposals.