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Postgraduate Course: ASN: The Creative Ecologies Studio (ARCH11176)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Course typeStandard AvailabilityAvailable to all students
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) Credits20
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaArt
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionThis supervised course provides a structured process, animated by a transdisciplinary sensibility, to engage complex environmental situations, exploring the interconnections between people, society, and environment. Working from the axiom of ecology, that all things are interconnected, creative practice is charged with the potential to bring measure and insight to our anthropocentric condition. The studio will focus on the scale of the human landscape exploring comparative ideas across art, architecture and science, in particular the challenge of engendering environmental change, by exploring ideas related to systems theory, embodied values and experiential natures, relational technologies and applied media, sustainability and resilience, eco-philosophy and critical theory, as a creative response to the world around us.
This course is open to students in disciplines that engage environment, whether through creative or science based approaches, who are seeking to enrich their own experience through comparative multidisciplinary insight. This course is enhanced through a series of reading groups and thematic seminars that explore precedents of creative practice and contemporary ideas.
Aims:
To develop knowledge of comparative multidisciplinary practices that engage complex environments;
To encourage experimentation through speculative approaches that engage the environment;
To refine a personal creative practice that negotiates environmental complexity.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus?No
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Available to all students (SV1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 16/09/2013
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 200 ( Lecture Hours 4, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 25, Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 2, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 8, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 155 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Reflection: present a series of precedents through personal research interests related to the course subject area

2. Exploration: initiate a speculative practice led project relative to principles derived from personal research

3. Synthesis: establish a clear rationale that connects personal research and practice through a process of applied knowledge
Assessment Information
Students will be assessed by submission of a portfolio project that comprises research and at least one speculative project related to the course subject area. The course will offer a structured approach for project development through individual tutorials and group interaction. The criteria for assessment are aligned with the learning outcomes and course aims.
Special Arrangements
None
Additional Information
Academic description Not entered
Syllabus Not entered
Transferable skills Not entered
Reading list Not entered
Study Abroad Not entered
Study Pattern Contact hours 20 hours (group tutorial)
Directed study 5 hours (personal tuition)
Self-directed study 45 hours
Total 70 hours
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Gordon Ross Mclean
Tel: (0131 6)51 5796
Email: r.maclean@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMr Daniel Emmerson
Tel: 0131 651 5738
Email: daniel.emmerson@ed.ac.uk
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