21/01/14 - Introduction to the module.

Today was the first session of the new module 'Global Fashion & Textile Sourcing'.
This module is all about developing an awareness of relevant industry sources and understanding the factors that impact the current practice of sourcing of fashion, textile and surface design products. We will also begin to understand the factors that may affect businesses in the future and how they will impact on careers within the industry.

This module is a group project in which we will come up with a concept for a possible product. With knowledge of a variety of fields, each group contains students from both the Textiles with Surface Design (TSD) course and the Fashion and Textile Buying Management (FTBM) course. This brings knowledge of both the business and the design sides.

Our group is made up of five of us, three from the TSD course and two from the FTBM course. This session was mainly focusing on getting to know each other and swapping contact information so that we can all communicate easily with one another throughout the duration of the project.

We discussed the elements of our courses that we were most interested in and what we were interested to bring into this project. We didn't want to commit to roles or tasks this early on in the project but talked through each role and put ourselves forward for the roles we were most interested in.

By the end of the session we loosely allocated the following roles to each person (but this doesn't mean they won't change!)

Aysha
- Managing Director (MD)
- Financial Director

Cara (Me)
- Operations Manager
- Sales & Marketing Manager

Annabelle
- Head of Design
- IT Manager

Andrea
- Head of Technology
- Human Resource Manager

Amy
- Head of Sourcing
- Merchandising/Logistics Manager

At the end of the session we decided to go away and think about the brief and come back for Thursday with a few ideas/possibly research to get the ball rolling for the new project.