Undergraduate – Textile Design

This course is for you if you see creativity and technology as important aspects of one’s identity and heritage, and seek meaningful contributions to a bigger cause. You will learn to:

• formulate new artistic expressions, explore and adopt new techniques and technology in the innovative realization of art and design projects through learning by making;
• observe best practices and professional ethics in art and design and are knowledgeable in the interplay of art with the sciences and has the ability to work in a collaborative setting;
• build a nation of innovators and trailblazers who will utilize advancement in textile technology to innovate products that will forge an inclusive and equal society;
• put forward the issues of society and the environment through textile design and research to produce outputs that can lead the future textile industry;
• nurture the growth of the passion economy by creating new design systems that will be built on partnership to revitalize the Philippine Creative Industries and economy;
• propose sustainable business ventures by applying ethical business practices and principles of design on textiles to lead innovation inside large organizations and promote local artisans;
• commitment to develop and distribute products in a sustainable manner with the goal of delivering financial, social and environmental value simultaneously;
• manifest heightened consciousness of Philippine society and culture to serve the interest of the Filipino people with the ability to adapt and translate indigenous and traditional art materials and practices with historical perspective to be equally competitive in the global textile economy and move toward a more inclusive and sustainable future;
• develop research on art and textile design by utilizing art theories and design principles New Materials across other disciplines, textile history and critical analysis to create and develop textile design projects; and
• cultivate engaged materials researchers and speculative designers through design thinking principles in order to be able to imagine and create the futuristic materials of tomorrow.