Phygital Fashion Pathway: Referring to a mode of artistic production and representation linked to immaterial and material culture, this course will use digital strategies and tools to create fashion outcomes that exist in both digital and physical spaces. Students will analyze and study social dynamics, emotional impacts, and new aesthetic forms activated by digital technologies, and explore human relations and identities, multiculturalism, sustainability, and the expansive field of fashion. Students will explore the use of technology for creating, prototyping, making, simulating, sizing, presenting, animating, digital printing, image making, and storytelling. In this course, students will learn advanced CLO 3D skills to create: customized avatars, customized trims and hardware; 3D virtual spaces; and animation. Additionally, students are encouraged to explore subjects such as gaming, the metaverse, and digital inclusion through modes of AR/VR; and by using programs like Style3D and Blender. This course is open to all pathways and serves as a preparation for Y4 Phygital Fashion: Thesis 1 & 2.

Open to: Bachelor's degree in Fashion Design majors only. Pre-requisite(s): PUFD 3320 Design Studio 3 (or APFD 3011/3024) and PUFD 3330 Specialized Studio 1 (or APFD 3013 Specialized Studio). Co-requisite: PUFD 3321 Design Studio 4. Students must enroll in corresponding sections of PUFD 3321 and 3331.