Postgraduate Course: ASN CONTEXTUAL STUDIES TERM 1 (ARCH11149)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (n/a) |
Credits | 10 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
A series of lectures and field studies to introduce relevant theory and methodologies to research site & context. This program evolves around a study tour to Orkney in collaboration with the Pier Arts Centre. The purpose of the field study is to explore artists / designers critical engagement of landscape through contextual assignments. The study tour challenges student's abilities of improvisation, invention and negotiation of unfamiliar context.
Aims of course
1 To research site and context in order to define project and research opportunities.
2 To enable students to locate their practice with reference to contemporary fields of speculation.
3 To demonstrate critical awareness of ones own and other students work.
Mode of delivery
Field work, Site Visit, Tutorials,Installation, Review |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
N.A.
Co-requisites
N.A.
Prohibited combinations
N.A. |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Use a range of techniques to analyse site and context
2. produce site specific work
3. Take part in and adapt to different team experiences, sharing, negotiating and presenting information |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
Bunschoten, Raoul Urban Flotsam 010 Publishers Rotterdam, 2001 Smithson, Robert The Collected Writings University of California Press Berkeley Fernie, Jes Two Minds Artists and Architects in Collaboration Black Dog Publishing, 2006 Galofera, Luca Artscapes: Art as an Approach to Contemporary Landscape GG Barcelona 2003 Gooding, Mel / Furlong William Songs of the Earth European Artists and the Landscape Thames + Hudson 2002 Patrick Geddes. $ùCities in Evolution&©. Williams and Norgate. 1915. Miles Glendinning + David Page. $ùClone City&©. Polygon/RCAHMS Edinburgh. 1999 David Hume. $ùA Treatise of Human Nature&©. Edited by L. Juhani Pallasmaa. $ùThe Eyes of the Skin . Architecture and the Senses&©. Academy Editions. London. 1996. |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 20 hours
Directed study 5 hours
Self-directed study 75 hours
Total 100 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
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