Textile design
Through its history and its omnipresence in everyday life, textiles combine functional, symbolic, cultural, decorative and narrative dimensions. Its language is both intimate and collective. A medium related to fashion, design, the performing arts and architecture, like these, it is a form of plastic expression. Flexible, mobile, made of fibres and threads, wefts and networks, textiles are fundamentally in interaction with the living world, mobilising people to work together and maintaining links with line, text and digital processes. Textiles are at the origin of a multitude of craft and industrial activities, and are constantly questioning the dynamics between ancestral know-how and contemporary technologies.
The creation of textures and structures, rhythms, designs and colours is the very object of the textile designer's work, implemented as a means of expression that is either autonomous or oriented towards specific applications. The first cycle enables students to gain an understanding of specific resources and to forge creative and technical processes within this vast panorama.
The second cycle involves the student's commitment to a creative field, based on an awareness of what he or she undertakes and achieves in the professional, artistic and social world. The Master 1 programme builds on the foundations of the first cycle and incorporates a situated project, interacting with a specific context (company, association, workshop, etc.); such a framework invites students to question the information that emerges from the context, in order to formulate responses with constant attention to everything that lives there and constitutes it.
Students are supported in their choice of a personal project, developed over a year and a half and implemented outside the school. They have optional access to various cross-disciplinary courses and workshops given at La Cambre or in other institutions, so as to adapt the programme to the requirements of the chosen subject. Internships or residencies in different contexts at an international level are encouraged in the Master's programme.
Pedagogical coordination
Linda Topic (Bachelor)
Anne Masson (Master)
Pedogagical staff
Ani Bedrossian, Eric Chevalier, Cenk Kivrikoglu, Emma Lozano, Toma Luntumbue, Léonard Mabille, Charlotte Marembert, Giovanna Massoni, Coralie Miessen, Sandrine Rombaux, Nicolas Stolarczyk, Pauline Vidal
Guest experts 2024-25
Ariane Bosshard, Anna Saint-Pierre
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