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DRPS : Course Catalogue : Edinburgh College of Art : Architecture and Landscape Architecture

Postgraduate Course: SELF DIRECTED RESEARCH LED PRACTICE (ARCH12002)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 12 (n/a) Credits80
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaNone
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionIndicative course content
This programme element will extend the student&©s ability to research, analyse and critically investigate theories and methods of making and placing personal work. Students are encouraged to make site specific work, that respond both to contemporary art and architectural practice. In addition to working in the studio the program involves participating in group or solo exhibition outside the ECA context. Students can participate in a variety of overseas residencies in USA, Europe and Japan.

Aims of course
1 To experience the process of developing a proposal from concept to realisation
2 To develop the practical framework for implementations of projects
3 To gain an advanced professional understanding of live projects within a developmental context

Mode of delivery
Crit/ Tutorial /Review
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations 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. An ability to collect and analyse of research information
2. An ability to explore concepts through various methods of visualisation and articulation and documentation of this process in written project statements.
3. An ability to present site specific work in exhibition context
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
SNODGRASS, ADRIAN and COYNE, RiCHARD. Interpretation in Architecture: Design as a Way of Thinking. London Routledge GILBERT, J. Legitimising sketchbooks as a research tool in an academic setting. Journal of Art and Design Education, vol 17 no.3 255-266, 1998 HOCKEY, J. Writing and making: Problems encountered by practice-based research degree students. Point, no.7, Spring / Summer. 38-43. 1999 SUKKIVAN, GRAEME. Art practice as Research: inquiry in the Visual Arts. Thousand Oaks, Calif: Sage Publications, 2005 NCNIFF, SHAUN. Art-based Research, London: Jessica Kingsley, 1998 Austin, F.Practice based research. Artist&©s Newsletter, April 5 1999 GRAY, CAROLE. Visualizing Research: A Guide to the Research Process in Art and Design. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2004 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 Rudolf Steiner. $ùArchitecture as a Synthesis of the Arts&©. Rudolf Steiner Press. 1999. $ùInner Vision, An Exploration of Art and the Brain.&© Semir Zeki. Oxford University Press. Oxford. 1999.
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 100 hours
Directed study 0 hours
Self-directed study 700 hours
Total 800 hours
KeywordsNot entered
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