Postgraduate Course: Self-Directed Practice 4 - Contextual Presentation 2 (ARCH11161)
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
The culmination of the MFA level programme involves presentation in the form of a solo Degree Exhibition for assessment and wider dissemination of your practice. The culmination should demonstrate an obvious competence in constructing a refined and rationalised installation of work, components of reflective practice and any other material deemed relevant or effective.
Aims of course
1 To exercise autonomy and initiative in organisation, presentation and exhibition strategies
2 To develop ability to critically examine, apply and disseminate the evidence of your research.
3 To professionally document, archive and determine the means of individually promoting individual work to others.
Mode of delivery
Studio based, tutorials, project review |
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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| No Classes have been defined for this Course |
| First Class |
First class information not currently available |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Exploration: demonstrate a critical understanding of the formation of a professional exhibition, from concept through to the practical implementation
2. Development: complete work to a professional standard and install it in a degree exhibition context and rationalise how work has been informed
3. Synthesis: display imagination, resourcefulness and substantial initiative in refinement towards final presentation |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
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| Transferable skills |
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| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
ALTSHULER, BRUCE. Collecting the New: Museums and Contemporary Art, Princeton University Press ANDRIESSE, PAUL. Art Gallery Exhibiting: the gallery as a vehicle for Art. Published: Inmerc BV, 1996 BEER, EVELYN. L&©exposition Imaginaire, Published: SDU, 1989 BISHOP, CLAIRE. Installation Art, London: Tate, 2005 COLES, ALEX Ed. Site-specificity: the ethnographic turn Published: London, Black Dog, 2004 DOHERTY, CLAIRE Contemporary Art: From Studio to Situation, London: Black Dog, 2004 DEAN, TACITA and MILLAR, JEREMY. Place, London: Thames and Hudson, 2005 DUFFIN, DEBBIE. Investigating Galleries: The Artist&©s Guide to Exhibiting, AN Publications, 1984 FOUCAULT, MICHEL. Of Other Spaces: Utopias and Heterotopias published in ArchitectureCulture 1943 -1968 Joan Ockman (ed), Colombia University GREENBER, REESA. Thinking about exhibitions. Routledge, London 1996 HUMBOLDT, ALEXANDER VON Views of Nature. Henry G. Bohn. London. 1850. Rudolf Steiner. $ùArchitecture as a Synthesis of the Arts&©. Rudolf Steiner Press. 1999. SWAFFIELD, SIMON Theory in landscape Architecture: A Reader Uni of Pennsylvannia Press 2002 WASE, GAVIN. Curating in the 21st Century, University of Wolverhampton, 2000 ZEKI, SEMIR Inner Vision, An Exploration of Art and the Brain. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1999. Exhibition Design, Gloucester, Mass Rotovision (distributor), 2006 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 50 hours
Directed study 150 hours
Self-directed study 200 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | EXHIBITION, PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION |
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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