Postgraduate Course: ASN: The Global Ecologies Studio (ARCH11179)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | Art |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | The Global Ecologies Studio will investigate large scale systems (both artificial and natural), beyond immediate perceptive grasp but made tangible through creative interpretation and measurement. This course responds to increasing demand across the arts and humanities, social and physical sciences to better understand environmental issues, such as climate change and globalised economies. The studio will explore cultural relationships between people, environment and technology, to address issues of cultural appropriation, such as energy production, information networks, settlement patterns and economic infrastructure, alongside associated questions of cultural value, social impact and physical integration, leading into broader cultural and philosophical theory, such as ecophilosophy, biosemiotics, intersubjective relations and anthropogenic activity.
The course is open to students who are culturally astute, politically aware and visually perceptive, responding to the current demand to educate a new generation through enlightened thought and engaged practice. To enhance practice this course has a series of reading groups and thematic seminars to explore precedents of creative practice and contemporary ideas.
Aims:
To develop insight and personal awareness of environmental issues;
To question common assumptions and formulate a culturally astute understanding of environmental change;
To develop creative practice with the aim of bringing insight to complex and large scale system dynamics.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Reflection: identify issues and debates pertinent to current global environmental concern
2. Exploration: establish a set of methods to interpret systems that operate beyond perceptive grasp
3. Synthesis: demonstrate a personal approach that articulates a response to global environmental issues
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Assessment Information
Students will be assessed on a clear rationale that underpins a practical response to the course subject area. This will be defined by the student as a response to global ecologies, involving a practical output that can be justified on a theoretical level.
The course will offer a structured approach for development through individual tutorials and group discussion. Group interaction is encouraged and given the multidisciplinary make-up of the studio cohort collaborative projects are encouraged. The criteria for assessment are aligned with the learning outcomes and course aims.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 20 hours (group tutorial)
Directed study 5 hours (personal tuition)
Self-directed study 45 hours
Total 70 hours |
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Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gordon Ross Mclean
Tel: (0131 6)51 5796
Email: r.maclean@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Daniel Emmerson
Tel: 0131 651 5738
Email: daniel.emmerson@ed.ac.uk |
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