T-P-15 (textile design) Theoretical foundations of textile design

Interdisciplinary research work, based on essential tenets of visual theory, on innovative technological development and solving problems with textile design. Suitable evaluation of textiles: visual and tactile characteristics, capacity and applicability of textiles. Placement of textile products into the wider cultural and civilisational context. Development of analytical and theoretical methods in textile design. Definition and systematisation of the essential theoretical elements in textile design. Semiotics in textile design. Complex connections between the elements and variances of visual art and the identity of the textile. Adaptation of textile design to advanced industrial production within individual expressions under conditions specific to the time and space. Recognition of the varieties of Slovenian ethnographic regions. Social, psychological, art-theoretical and humanistic parameters in textile design. Thematic and symbolic aspects of today’s textile design within historical development. Advanced textile technology in connection with design, ecological consciousness and recyclability. Design strategies and trademarks in creative textile design.