Project | STEAMD in ACTION

A Collaborative Interdisciplinary Project

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The Wearable Art and Design Show

Now in it’s eleventh year, the Wearable Art and Design Show is a collaborative interdisciplinary project that brings together the collective creative minds of students in the Arts and Applied and Technology and Business Department – Visual Art, Film Television and New Media, Design and Business students.

 

This STEAMD project, marketed to students under the name as the “Wearable Art and Design Show” is a collaboration exhibition that enthrals audiences of up to 600 every year. This year, the project was adapted to meet social distancing measures, where in conjunction with the Film and Television students, a “film” of the show “Lore” is in editing. 

 

Each year students in Years 9 and 10 and in the 2020 Year 11 are provided with a design brief to create an element of the show based on the subject discipline. Up to 120 students elect to collaborate through their subjects on this project. The 2019 theme was based on Biomimicry and 2020 Fractured Fairy Tales. It is seen as one of the most creative and innovative courses the school delivers. It provides students with authentic project management experience while showcasing their works to the wider community.

 

Over the years, the project has involved up to eight subjects. The students are required to cross-curricular collaborate to complete the project. 

 

•Visual Art students produce two wearable sculptures

 

•Design students create a wearable design using technology

 

• Business and Cert III Events Management students undertake project management of the event including catering, set, event management and marketing.

 

• Film and Television students design a short film, interview packages on some of the artists, teacher and coordinator interviews and run the audiovisual for the show.

 

• Science students worked with Design students to incorporate lighting and moving parts in their designs.

 

• Music and Drama students have mixed the runway and theme music and provide preshow entertainment

 

 

The theme varies year to year which provides additional inspiration and direction for the students to research and develop concepts. These themes are drawn from separate subject disciplines. For example, themes have included, Technology, Sustainability, Biomimicry, Pop Art, Fractured Fairy Tales and Architecture.

 

Students developmental work can include up to 20 varying concepts that use divergent thinking strategies to conceptualise innovative ideas. The students are also required to sketch parts both by hand and in CAD. This requires them to use a range of visual representations, mathematical equations to produce nets and special awareness to produce prototypes and models.

 

The students are encouraged to seek assistance from students with ‘expertise’ in an area they are unfamiliar with to complete the prototype. For example, design students presented the physics students with their concepts that had moving parts. Physics students provided advice and assistance. 

 

The initiative has become so popular, that old scholars have requested that in 2021, there be an open section for them to be involved.