What next?
After completion of a successful unit, Kylie was ready to move on to another theme and didn't plan, at that stage, to work on a similar project with other classes. She prefers to find a new context for each senior class – it might involve, as in this one, working on a solution to a perceived need, or she might take inspiration from a current fashion or art exhibition and plan a new unit based on that. However, after viewing the completed marae panels the school librarians approached Kylie and suggested her class make something for the library and in 2009 the Year 13 Fashion students will create permanent fabric sculptures as hanging installations there.
The 2008 Year 13 class had a relatively large number of students planning careers around fashion and several are studying for a degree in Fashion Design Technology next door to the school at the Massey University School of Design.
