Best Educational Programs: COSTUME AND TEXTILE ART

TRUEVTSEV, Alexey Viktorovich

Head of Department

 

Programme presentation. Systematic training of textile workers with higher education began in St. Petersburg in 1828, when Practical Technological Institute was established, and was continued in 1930 when Leningrad Textile Institute (since 1992 – SPSUTD) was separated from the above mentioned HEI.

Specialists and Bachelors in this area develop textile projects for the interior; casual and protective clothing, sports equipment, textile goods for tourism and leisure and interiors of cars and other vehicles.

The educational process is carried out in the Training and Research Innovative Complex “Textile, Colour, Design” and the University laboratories “Optimization of Textile Technologies”, “Polymeric Fibrous and Composition Materials for Special Purposes” and others.

Teaching staff. The teaching staff comprises two Doctors and seven Candidates of Sciences. Artistic disciplines are taught by members of the Union of Artists of Russia and the Association of Art Critics. Foreign practice is taken into account: for the last five years the Departments of the Institute have annually conducted classes with Master’s students from France, Germany and Finland within the academic mobility programme.

Since 2004 at the Major Department there has been a national section of the International Federation of Knitting Technologies, which successfully conducted the 44th congress of this organization in 2008 inSt. Petersburg. The Journals “Design. Materials. Technology” and “Technology of Consumer Goods Industry”, recommended by the Higher Attestation Commission, are published.

Competitiveness of students. Students regularly take part in creative contests and model shows, in particular, in the annual exhibition “Fashion Industry” and the International Contest of Young Designers of Clothes, Shoes and Accessories “Admiralty Spire”. In 2013 young researchers won the contest for the best wallpaper design, con-ducted by “Stenova” (Germany).

Interaction with employers. Most students are placed for work experience in production and creative organizations of St. Petersburg and the region, such and “Uzor”, “Neva Manufacture”, “Andover”, “Hosiery”, “Master”, in theatre workshops and small textile companies. Best students are recommended for practical experience in Poland, Germany and Belarus.