Postgraduate Course: Directed Practice 1 - Contextual Assignments 1 (ARCH11158)
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 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
This first semester module consists of at least two major projects that introduce ideas of contextual engagement and cross-disciplinary theories and practices by providing a varied range of settings to challenge a number of practice-led investigations and experimentations. The combination of projects confront issues of scale, method, abstraction and transformation of information, while developing signifying practices that will culminate in the construction of site related installations.
Aims of course
1 To assert the values inherent in interdisciplinary collaboration and generate an awareness of the links between contexts, research and creative practice.
2 To encourage theoretical and practical experimentation based on rigorous research skills interrelated with applied practice.
3 To enhance your skills of critical analysis and evaluation, which allow complex issues to be examined systematically and creatively.
Mode of delivery
field work, studio work, installation |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | Pre-requisites
none
Co-requisites
none
Prohibited combinations
none |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2011/12 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 150 |
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Weeks |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Exploration: initiate a process of experimental practice-led investigations.
2. Development: demonstrate an endeavour to relate and reflect upon thematic and conceptual strands.
3. Synthesis: develop a sense of how projects themselves can become contexts of encounter. |
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
ALLEN, STAN Points+Lines: Diagrams and projects for the City Princeton Arch. Press NY 1999 BACHELARD, GASTON The poetics of Space Beacon Press Boston 1994 (original published 1964) BEARDSLEY, JOHN. Earthworks and Beyond, Contemporary Art in the Landscape, Abbeville Press, New York, 1989 BLAFFER HARDY, SARAH Mother Nature. Natural Selection & The Female of The Species Chatto & Windus. London. 2000. BUNSHOTEN, RAOUL Urban Flotsam 010 Publishers Rotterdam, 2001 CACHE, BERNARD Earth Moves: The Furnishing of Territories MIT Press 1995 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 GEDDES, PATRICK Cities in Evolution. Williams and Norgate. 1915. GLENDINNING, MILES & PAGE, DAVID Clone City Polygon/RCAHMS Edinburgh. 1999 GOODING, MEL & FURLONG, WILLIAM Songs of the Earth European Artists and the Landscape Thames + Hudson 2002 NEMITZ, BARBARA. Trans Plant; living vegetation in contemporary art, Hatje Cantz Publishers, 2000 PALLASMAA, JUNANI The Eyes of the Skin . Architecture and the Senses. Academy Editions. London. 1996. RHOWBOTHAM, KEVIN Field Event/Field Space Serial Books, Black Dog Pub. Lon 1999 SHIGEMATSU, SOIKU A Zen Forest&©. Ed. Weatherhill. New York + Tokyo. 1981 SMITHSON, ROBERT The Collected Writings University of California Press Berkeley SMOUT, GARY & ALLEN, LAURA Augmented Landscapes (Pamphlet Architecture 28. NY. Princeton Architectural Press 2007 THOMPSON, D&©ARCY WENTWORTH On Growth and Form Dove Edition 1992 (originally published 1942) WEIBEL, PAUL Olufar Eliasson: Surroundings Surrounded MIT Press 2001 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 150 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 250 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | FIELD WORK, CONTEXTUAL ENGAGEMENT, INSTALLATION |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gordon Ross Mclean
Tel:
Email: r.maclean@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mrs Elaine Dickson
Tel: 0131 221 6286
Email: e.dickson@ed.ac.uk |
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