In this mid-level jewellery course, students investigate ideas between the hand and the machine. These parameters of jewellery production will engage students with concerns relating to contemporary jewellery design practice and acquire technical knowledge and skills with material and conceptual issues. Designs will be realised as finished objects through both hand fabrication and prototyping of jewellery works. Projects will address the conceptual, material and technical understandings of Jewellery and Object Design employing analysis, research, problem-solving and design development to produce design solutions. In this course, particular attention is paid to the dialogue between new technologies and traditional craft skills in the design and production of Jewellery and Objects.
This course will focus students on a thorough examination of three dimensional jewellery and object design using the body as the format or site for design solutions. This course extends experimentation and the development of an understanding of techniques from both traditional hand fabrication and small- scale industrial processes including computer modelling, prototyping and casting. Research and experimentation will be undertaken with a variety of metal and non-metal materials and techniques. Studio activity will combine the development of one-off designs and the production of multiples as wearable jewellery objects.
Students will study and engage with traditional and new technological approaches over the entire semester with three assessment tasks. Students will work between the Jewellery Studio, Makers Space and liaise with industry at different stages of the project in order to realise their proposal.
