Undergraduate Course: Art, Environment and Sustainability (LLLA07110)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will explore how cultural interpretations of the non-human world can be a factor in understanding the environment and the crisis in global ecological sustainability. There is an opportunity to explore both a wide range of art practices and focus on such key areas as human-animal relations, climate change and species loss and the city and globalization for example.
Art: Environment and Sustainability offers students the chance to explore interrelated topics such as eco-art, human/nonhuman relations and sustainability and apply these to their own practice in greater depth.
Students will employ strategies to investigate and understand the natural world, developing a curiosity about the natural world and demonstrate an increasing awareness of the interdependence between all living things and the environment.
Through a series of projects, group discussion and collaborative exercises students will experiment with materials and develop a portfolio of work that will combine personal research with a consideration of how to develop their own ideas through practice in and out of the studio.
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| Course description |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2016/17, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: None |
| Course Start |
Lifelong Learning - Session 3 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
100
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 30,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
68 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
This course will be assessed by the submission of a portfolio of visual art and/or design works within the discipline studied. This will include a selection of resolved art and/or design works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness through a completed sketchbook and/or visual journal. The work must be presented in a clear and professional manner appropriate to the discipline. The submission should include work undertaken within the class as well as directed and independent study out with the class.
The combined submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, you must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- By the end of the course, through attending classes and engaging in directed and independent study, students should be able to: RESEARCH Develop the capacity for self-directed research and extend this into practical projects which consider environmental issues
- PRACTICE Develop a range of research into their own practical projects, which is expressed through a contemporary language of drawing and painting and/or other media.
- PRESENT Produce a coherent body of practical work that synergises students¿ personal research of environmental themes into studio practices and project development.
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Reading List
Recommended Books
The Postmodern Animal (Essays in Art & Culture), Steve Baker
Art and Animals, Giovanni Aloi
Land Art; The Earth As Canvas, Michael Lailach
Land and Environmental Art, Jeffrey Kastner & Brian Wallis
Art and the Public Sphere, W. J. T. Mitchell
Land and Environmental Art, Jeffrey Kastner & Brian Wallis
Environmental Art edited by Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome,
John McBrewster
Art & Visual Culture 1850 - 2010: Modernity to Globalisation, Steve Edwards & Paul Wood
Websites
http://greenupgrader.com/4473/environmental-art-using-the-landscape-as-a-medium/
http://www.cynthiarobinson.net/ecoart.html
http://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/Home.aspx
http://www.antennae.org.uk/
http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/07/21/green-art-10-artists-working-with-recycled-materials/
http://greenmuseum.org/what_is_ea.php
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Drawing and painting skills
Developing personal research skills in and out of studio
Translation of research into studio practice
Research through expression
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr Benjamin Mcnab
Tel: (0131 6)51 4832
Email: Benjamin.Mcnab@ed.ac.uk |
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