Postgraduate Course: Directed Practice 2 - Contextual Presentation 1 (ARCH11159)
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 |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
Within this module you will be asked to critically review and consolidate organisational and exhibition strategies, on an individual basis, interrelated with a group dynamic. The opportunities for exhibition will be varied, but each will call for a clearly developed awareness of contextual opportunities, audience experience and encounter, allied with a strong basis of constructed implementation and material considerations.
Aims of course
1 To formulate responses to varied contexts into refined presentational work.
2 To promote realisation of detail and refinement within the material considerations of your projects.
3 To enhance an ability to effectively present a body of work in a professional manner to a wide audience.
Mode of delivery
Installation, Presentation, Project review, Studio based and tutorial engagement. |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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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 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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WebCT enabled: Yes |
Quota: 150 |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Exploration: pursue a range of contextual responses and exhibition ideas.
2. Development: refine ideas towards identifiable presentation objectives
3. Synthesis: implement a refined exhibition structure within a given context |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
ANDERSSON, STIG L A Cloud is Just Another Sheet of Paper In. Topos Sept. 2002 p86 BAUDRILLARD, JEAN. Excerpts from the &«Evil Demon of Images&ª Published by the Power Institute of Fine Arts, University of Sydney, Australia, 1988 CAREI, FRANSESCO Walkscapes $ú walking as an aesthetic experience GG Barcelona 2002 CASTELLS, MANUEL. The Information City: Information Technology, Economic Restructuring and Urban Regional Process. Blackwell 1989 CORTNER, JAMES The Agency of Mapping: Speculation, Critique and Invention In: COSGROVE, DENIS 1999. Mappings. Lon. Reaktion Books. P213 CROS, SUSANNE. The Metapolis Dictionary of Advanced Architecture- city, technology and society in the information age, Actar 2003 GEDDES, PATRICK. Cities in Evolution Williams and Norgate London 1949 GREGOTTI, VITTORIA. On Atopia, Published in Inside Architecture By Vittorio Gregotti / Kenneth Frampton. The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass, 1996 KAHN, LOUIS The Room, The Street and Human Agreement Printed in A+U, Vol 3. no1, 1973 LIBESKIN, DANIEL The Space of Encounter Thames & Hudson Lon 2001 MAROL, SEBASTIEN. Su-urbanism and the Art of Memory AA London, 2003 OKUTSU, KIYOSHI JOHNSTON, ALAN MAC DONALD, MURDO and SADAKATA, NOBURU Patrick Geddes: By Leaves We Live Edinburgh-Yamaguchi 2004, Yamaguchi Institute of Contemporary Arts, 2005 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 150 hours
Directed study 250 hours
Self-directed study 0 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | EXHIBITION, IMPLEMENTATION, GROUP WORKING |
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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