? Credit Points : 100  ? SCQF Level : 11  ? Acronym : ACE-P-A

This course examines the key debates in practice-led research and the development of intellectually and materially engaged design propositions. It covers the principle positions in this debate across a range of design-related fields and investigates the philosophical underpinnings of the idea of visual- and material-knowledges. The course is focussed on examining the possibilities of non-textual forms of research output, and their relationship to contemporary debates on design and the built environment.

? Costs : Costs associated with the production and exhibition of design work.

Home subject area

Architecture, (School of Arts, Culture and Environment, Schedule A)

? Normal year taken : Postgraduate

? Delivery Period : To be arranged/Unknown

? Contact Teaching Time : 30 minutes per week for 22 weeks

 Understand the range of architectural design strategies and their implications for progressing debate on the built environment
 Engage creatively and experimentally with a range of diverse design mediums
 Critically assess the usefulness and effectiveness (rhetorical, factual, analytical) of given design strategies in relation to contemporary cultural production and the built environment
 Develop plausible research questions and hypotheses, and design research methodologies that might satisfactorily test them.

Assessment is based 100% on an exhibition and portfolio of reseach and design work.

The Course Secretary should be the first point of contact for all enquiries.

Course Secretary

Mrs Catherine Carmichael
Tel : (0131 6)50 2305
Email : Catherine.Carmichael@ed.ac.uk

Course Organiser

Dr Stephen Cairns
Email : stephen.cairns@ed.ac.uk

Course Website : http://www.architecture.ed.ac.uk

School Website : http://www.ace.ed.ac.uk/

College Website : http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/