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

Postgraduate Course: Design: strategy and intervention (ARCH11172)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Humanities and Social Science
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Year 5 Undergraduate) AvailabilityAvailable to all students
SCQF Credits40 ECTS Credits20
SummaryA strategice design project made in response to a given brief in a European urban context which involves a short study tour.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Field trip
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisitesNone
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2014/15, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  50
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Lecture Hours 10, Seminar/Tutorial Hours 15, Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 120, Fieldwork Hours 25, Feedback/Feedforward Hours 10, Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 212 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Individual project/s
Students must pass all learning outcomes. The aggregation of failed Learning outcomes with passing learning outcomes to generate an overall pass mark is not permitted. Failure of one learning outcome will result in a Forced Fail (FF) outcome. Students are permitted two attempts to pass this course.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Academic year 2014/15, Part-year visiting students only (VV1) Quota:  35
Course Start Semester 1
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 400 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 392 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Individual project/s
Students must pass all learning outcomes. The aggregation of failed Learning outcomes with passing learning outcomes to generate an overall pass mark is not permitted. Failure of one learning outcome will result in a Forced Fail (FF) outcome. Students are permitted two attempts to pass this course.
Feedback Not entered
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. explore the creative potential of different on-site fieldwork techniques
  2. utilise graphics to communicate complex time based strategies
  3. develop imaginative proposals in response to a set brief, for the rejuvenation of large and complex site at a range of scales from landscape strategy to focused design intervention
Reading List
Bunschoten R (2001) Urban Flotsum: stirring the city. 010, Rotterdam.
Corner J (1999) Recovering Landscape: essays in contemporary landscape architecture. Princeton Arch. Press.
Koolhaas R (1997) S, M, L, XL: small, medium, large, extra-large. Benedict Taschen.
Koolhaas R (1994) Delirious New York: a retroactive manifesto for Manhattan. Monacelli Press.
Lynch K ( 1984) Good City Form. MIT Press.
Lynch K (1960) The Image of the City. MIT Press.
Waldheim, C (2006) The Landscape Urbanism Reader. Princetown Architectural Press.

Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
KeywordsNot entered
Contacts
Course organiserMr Kenneth Fraser
Tel: (0131 6)51 5799
Email: kenny.fraser@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Margaret Dingsdale
Tel: 0131 651 5803
Email: m.dingsdale@ed.ac.uk
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