Postgraduate Course: Sustainable Design Methodologies (distance learning) (ARCH11040)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This is a distance learning course, delivered entirely online using as its main delivery platform our virtual learning environment . The choice of this mode of delivery enables you to shape your study pattern around your working day and other commitments.
We look at how some of the theory contained in Sustainable Theory and Contexts are translated into design proposals. The course is speculative in nature where credit is given to process and creativity. We examine two specific themes:
Infrastructure Networks
We explore at an urban scale the role of both physical and virtual infrastructures in the formation of settlement frameworks. We look at utopias, autonomy and connection and how a specific position can affect design propositions.
Sustainable Transformations
We enquire at the scale of the building how environmental response and building skin can transform working environments and minimise impact in the built environment. We look at how existing buildings and structures can be retrofitted and made inherently adaptable and flexible.
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| Course description |
Not entered
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
Students MUST have passed:
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Please contact the School directly for a breakdown of Learning and Teaching Activities |
| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
1. You submit a written essay (30% of your final mark)
This addresses learning outcome 1
2. by an design assignment (50% of your final mark) that consists of a project at the scale of a building. It addresses all the learning outcomes.
You undertake a weblog journal that counts towards 20% of the total assessment. This is a learning diary that relates to learning outcomes 1 and 2
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| Feedback |
Formative feedback is given to you during the course to help you understand the learning material and assist you in the assignments we ask you to do. Summative feedback is given on a finished piece of assignment work that advises you how well you have performed in terms of the aims and objectives of the assignment and overall in relation to the course.
You will receive formative feedback for all your submitted components of assessment. This will be a key way in which we tutor you on this distance learning course.
You will receive summative feedback with a grade for each item of coursework you complete.
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| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Develop understanding as to the role of the built environment in the establishment of effective sustainable strategies.
- Acquire knowledge and capability to articulate programmatic and technical criteria within a diverse spectrum of architectural cultural contexts.
- Gain skills in the presentation and communication of sustainable design concepts and strategies
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Additional Class Delivery Information |
No formal class times as the course is delivered through distance learning |
| Keywords | sustainable design strategies home workplace environmental |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr John Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2324
Email: John.Brennan@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Susan Mitchell
Tel: (0131 6)51 5743
Email: Susan.Mitchell@ed.ac.uk |
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