Postgraduate Course: Self-Directed Practice 3 - Contextual Assignments 2 (ARCH11160)
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
Students work on self-selected and generated projects which offer the opportunity to further extend a wide-ranging and in-depth practical and theoretical investigation into the organisational contexts of contemporary art/design, material and visual culture. The student&©s autonomous position can be made effective through self directed projects that nurture the organisational expertise and presentation abilities needed to successfully practice in the creative sector.
Aims of course
1 To develop individual practice and professional, technical and organisational skills
2 To promote a professional approach to manage, structure and resolve an innovative contribution.
3 Enable students to propose, justify and undertake an advanced personal project with clearly defined critical aims, objectives and methods
Mode of delivery
Individual mentoring, installation, project review, exhibition |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
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 |
Monday |
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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
| No Exam 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 |
| Location |
Activity |
Description |
Weeks |
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
| 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: demonstrate independent initiative and self-critical application of original ideas
2. Development: demonstrate a fully integrated, critical and contextualised relationship between creative practice and research
3. Synthesis: generate, evaluate and consolidate original research within the production of realised projects |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
Not entered |
| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
CORNER, JAMES ed. Recovering Landscape, Princeton Architectural Press 1999 FOWLE, KATE To be continued: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2003 GALAFORA, LUCA Artscapes: Art as an Approach to Contemporary Landscape, Land & Scape series Editorial Gustavo GILI HILL JONOTHAN Architecture $ś the Subject is Matter Routledge Lon 2001 KOHOR, ZOYA and LEUN, Simon. Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, 2004 KRAUSS, ROSALIND E. Passages in Modern Sculpture, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977 MOSTAFAVI, MOSHEN and NAJLE, CIRO Ed. Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Mechanic Landscape Architectural Association, 2003 MUMFORD, LEWIS $łThe City in History . Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects&©. Secker and Warburg. London. 1963 RASHID, HANI Asymptote: Architecture at the Interval Rizzoli 1995 SCHRODER, THIES Changes in Scenery: Contemporary Landscape in Europe, Birkhauser 2001 WELTER, VOLKER Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life MIT PRESS, 2002 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 50 hours
Directed study 150 hours
Self-directed study 200 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | SELF INITIATED WORKING, INSTALLATION, PRACTICE LED INVESTIGATION |
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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