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Postgraduate Course: ASN: Creative Practice 4 - Contextual Presentation (ARCH11183)

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 descriptionThe culmination of the 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:
To exercise autonomy and initiative in organisation, presentation and exhibition strategies;
To develop ability to critically examine, apply and disseminate the evidence of your research;
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)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs None
Course Delivery Information
Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Learn enabled:  Yes Quota:  None
Web Timetable Web Timetable
Course Start Date 13/01/2014
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 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
The course will offer a structured approach for development through individual tutorials and group discussion. 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:
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. 'Architecture 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 20 hours (personal tuition)
Directed study 120 hours
Self-directed study 140 hours
Total 280 hours
KeywordsEXHIBITION, PORTFOLIO PRESENTATION
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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