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Postgraduate Course: ASN: Creative Practice 3 - Contextual Assignments (ARCH11182)

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 11 (Postgraduate) Credits40
Home subject areaArchitecture and Landscape Architecture Other subject areaArt
Course website None Taught in Gaelic?No
Course descriptionStudents 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:
To develop individual practice and professional, technical and organisational skills;
To promote a professional approach to manage, structure and resolve an innovative contribution;
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 Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Block 5 (Sem 2) and beyond, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 21/04/2014
Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Seminar/Tutorial Hours 2, Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 11, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 20, Fieldwork Hours 21, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 336 )
Additional Notes
Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
No Exam Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 1, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 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: 400 ( Lecture Hours 5, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22, Dissertation/Project Supervision Hours 4, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 77, Fieldwork Hours 28, External Visit Hours 7, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2, Formative Assessment Hours 1, Summative Assessment Hours 1, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 245 )
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. 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
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.
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 - 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 'The 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 20 hours (personal tuition)
Directed study 120 hours
Self-directed study 140 hours
Total 280 hours
KeywordsSELF INITIATED WORKING, INSTALLATION, PRACTICE LED INVESTIGATION
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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