CANVAS FOR COLLECTION DEVELOPMENT: A TEACHING EXPERIENCE OF PROJECT IN FASHION DESIGN BIBIANA SILVEIRA HORN 1 , MARINA ANDERLE GIONGO 2 , JULIO VAN DER LINDEN 3 1 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)/Universidade do Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), bibiana.silveira.horn@gmail.com 2 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)/Universidade do Vale dos Sinos (UNISINOS), marinagiongo@gmail.com 3 Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), julio.linden@ufrgs.br Abstract:This paper presents a report and an analysis of a teaching experience in a discipline of the second semester of fashion bachelor. The aim of this study is to analyze how the proposed work and the procedures adopted for carrying out the projects reflect the development of the collection of each group of students.This is a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory research. The methodology used was bibliographic research and for data collection with students we used an adapted canvas.At the end, we examine how was the progress of projects, difficulties and facilities for projectual method and practice of the students’ projects. Keywords:Fashion design; Fashion education; Collection Development; Canvas. 1. Introduction This study report aims to show an analysis and proposed work for educational projective disciplines in fashion design. The approach is made from a work proposal with students of the second semester. Since it is the first project where they develop a collection, it was proposed a project method adapted to guide the studeŶts, whiĐh ŵay ďe Đlassified as a guide ŵodel 1 . The discipline involves the whole project steps, since the theory to the materialization. The complexity and degree requirements of the projects increase as the semester in which they are integrated. An important aspect of the approach of this course is work in teams, not common practice in these kind of disciplines, although it is the reality of professional fashion designer practice. "The project teaching seeks the formation of a body of knowledge, documentation and creation, mastering the distance between the artistic and the industrial, or rather, between thinking and doing" (Farah, 2012; our translation) The discipline in question belongs to the second semester of the fashion BA course. It is a projectual discipline, to which the original proposal was the individual creation of a collection of clothing for a real apparel brand. Some modifications were made in all course design disciplines. For this discipline were proposed the following changes: the project should be done in pairs or threes, the proposed collection will be conceptual, for a real brand, but this brand does not produces apparel, but other products such as handbags, accessories and shoes. The study report is referring to the second semester of 2015 class. Students should design a conceptual collection of clothing in groups to Insecta Shoes, a Brazilian brand of vegan and vintage shoes. 1 To Bonsiepe (1984), the teaching of project can have three classifications: model "stick" where the teacher conduct the student and provides most of the technical information, performing a kind of pre structuring; model "guide", in which the teacher guides students who already have more autonomy, and interfere less in the project; and model "consultant" in which teachers go along the student who designs freely, just performing occasional review.