Australian designers, historical and cultural traditions, and ethical production in a global industry.
These are the statements the Textiles and Design syllabus makes about Australian Design, Culture and Sustainability. Dux records each one against the questions you answer, so you can see which of them you have actually been tested on and which have never been asked.
Australian designers and the conditions — climate, isolation, materials — that shaped their work.
Textile traditions and what they carry: technique, identity and knowledge transmitted through making.
The environmental and labour footprint of textile production, and what a credible claim of improvement requires.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander textile and fibre practice, its cultural meaning and the protocols around it.
The economics of fast fashion, and the consumption pattern it depends on.
Recycling, upcycling and design for disassembly, and why textile recycling is technically difficult.
Sourcing, subcontracting and labour conditions, and what certification can and cannot verify.
Digital printing, CAD and automated cutting, and how they change what small studios can produce.
Care labels, fibre content and origin, and what they do and do not tell a buyer.
Conservation, provenance and the ethics of displaying culturally significant textiles.
HSC Textiles and Design - Written Paper Shape is 40 marks in 90 minutes. Questions on Australian Design, Culture and Sustainability are not one shape repeated: the command word decides what the marker is looking for, and the mark value decides how much of it. These are the ones Textiles and Design uses.
Dux writes practice for this module in exactly these shapes, so the drill is the same task the paper sets — not a general knowledge quiz with the module name on it.
Australian Design, Culture and Sustainability is module 3 of 3 in Textiles and Design. Students routinely lose marks because a question spans two modules, so the neighbouring modules are worth reading next to this one.
Dux diagnoses Textiles and Design dot point by dot point, then writes questions in the shape this course marks. Written answers come back marked against the bands.