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OVAM SIS Toolkit for a sustainable design process
The OVAM SIS Toolkit is a tool to integrate sustainability into innovation and design processes in order to increase value creation. SIS stands for Sustainable Innovation System . This tool, developed for the business community, is also used …
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World of Wearable Art: Teaching package
In this lesson package, students go through an artistic creative process with the end result being a fashion photo with a self-designed fashion item. The starting point is World of Wearable Art : a fashion competition. The students then brainstorm …
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Turtle Stitch: Embroidery Programming
Turtlestitch is an application to generate patterns for embroidery machines. The tool was developed with the educational programming language Snap!
Turtlestitch is easy to use and requires no programming knowledge. It is useful for designers to …
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Thrift flip with us!
Texterra is a youth project around upcycling, thrift flip, crafting, tech-shizzle, hacking... They want to bridge the gap between STEM and sustainable textiles. In this way, they create an environment in which young people not only learn and grow, …
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Making an embroidery on a bag: Step-by-step lan
Using this work sheet, made in Canva, the students embroider themselves on a bag. The step-by-step plan also delves deeper into the history of embroidery.
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Child with ink spots: Street art trail with teaching package
Child with ink spots is a street art trail in Turnhout, you will find the lesson package in the appendix.
It is 1892. Senne is 11 years old and a factory child. Like many children, he works in one of the Turnhout printing companies. The work is hard …
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The sewing machine: Practical assignment
A sewing machine uses a mechanical technique to sew or decorate fabrics together. Unlike sewing by hand, the sewing machine uses two strands of thread, the upper thread and the bobbin thread. The upper thread runs from the thread spool to the …
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Online learning platform: Digital embroidery
Embroidery is making decorations with needle and thread on textile, leather or other surfaces. Digital embroidery is done with a computer-controlled embroidery machine that reads a stitch file via a software program and embroiders with an upper …
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Footwear Design: Paper tape shoe and redesign based on an animal
In this learning resource, students learn the limitations and possibilities of paper tape by recreating their own full-size sneaker. They also make a redesign of this shoe based on a self-chosen animal by translating colours, textures and …
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Translucent insects: Teaching idea about additive color system or RGB
In this teaching material, students make insects out of black paper using colored and translucent plastic. This gives a nice effect if you hang them against the window and the sunlight comes through.
With this assignment you teach students to work …
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Notan: Teaching idea about positive and negative space
This teaching material focuses on Notan. Notan is a Japanese design concept that plays with light and dark elements by placing them next to each other in high contrast. Dark and light always need each other in art to exist. So you can't actually …
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Media Scanners: Workshop
Information bubbles, propaganda, censorship... These are phenomena that are as old as our (visual) language. But how do you recognize them? How do we avoid polarization? The Media Scanners workshop introduces students to sources from the Second …
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