Postgraduate Course: STUDIO THE GARDEN (ARCH11154)
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 | 20 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
The first term thematic assignment engages with the Edinburg RoyalBotanic Garden and reflects upon both artistic and scientific engagement with the natural world. Students are encouraged to make context specific work in relation to the garden. Professional input by curator Paul Nesbitof of Inverleith House / Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden helps students to familiarise themselves with exhibition design and understanding the interrelation between scientific and artistic practice.
Aims of course
1 To explore advanced concepts of art / space / nature and science with reference to contemporary scientific and artistic practice within the constructed environment of Edinburgh Royal botanic Garden.
2 To extend the student's ability to research, analyse and critically investigate theories and methods of making and placing personal work
3 To participate in a group exhibition.
Mode of delivery
Field work, Crit, Tutorial, 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. Explore space and context through drawing, design and installation
2. Synthesise art, space and nature in the context of the (botanic) garden.
3. Construct and present work in group exhibition context |
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
D&©ARCY WENTWORTH THOMPSON On Growth and Form Dove Edition 1992 (originally published 1942) NEMITZ, BARBERS Trans / Plant Living Vegetation in Contemporary Art Hatje Cantz 2000 BACHELARD, GASTON The poetics of Space Beacon Press Boston 1994 (original published 1964) FERNIIE, JES. Jes Two Minds Artists and Architects in Collaboration, Black Dog Publishing, 2006 OKUTSU, KIYOSHI JOHNSTON, ALAN MACDONALD, MURDO and SADAKATA, NOBURU Patrick Geddes: By Leaves We Live Edinburgh-Yamaguchi 2004, Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2005 URSPRUNG, PHILIP Ed. Herzog & De Meuron Natural History, Canadian Centre for Architecture, Lars Muller Publishers, 2002 HOLT, NANCEY Ed. The Writings of Robert Smithson. New York: New York University Press, 1979 FOUCAULT, MICHEL. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias published in Architecture Culture 1943 -1968 Joan Ockman (ed), Colombia University A Zen Forest&©. Ed. Soiku Shigematsu. Weatherhill. New York + Tokyo. 1981 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 25 hours
Directed study 25 hours
Self-directed study 150 hours
Total 200 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
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