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

Postgraduate Course: Sustainable Theory and Contexts (distance learning) (ARCH11037)

Course Outline
SchoolEdinburgh College of Art CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits20 ECTS Credits10
SummaryThis 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.

This course engages with key theories and contexts of sustainable development with specific reference to the built environment. The course does not require any specific design skills but you should have an interest and engagement with building, the neighbourhood and the city. The course has two key themes:

Communicating Complexity
This immerses you in the realities of sustainable design discourses, namely a vast repository of knowledge and guidance that requires intelligent analysis to construct legible and relevant sustainable design frameworks.

Building Capacity
How do we get the tools we need to undertake sustainable design? Building capacity as a concept does not tell you what you need to know but critically how to research and how to communicate that research.

Critical Theories and Practice
Much of what we understand as sustainable architecture is underpinned by theory. We engage with some of the key foundations of environmental design and how it affects design practice in the built environment.
Course description Not entered
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Course Delivery Information
Not being delivered
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Develop an ability to critically assess sustainable strategies in the built environment.
  2. Understand the cultural, historic and scientific roots of environmental thought.
  3. Gain skills in the application of sustainable theory to built environment contexts.
Reading List
None
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Not entered
Additional Class Delivery Information No formal class sessions as the course is delivered through distance learning.
Keywordssustainable theory contexts city environmental
Contacts
Course organiserMr John Brennan
Tel: (0131 6)50 2324
Email: John.Brennan@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMrs Lyndsay Hagon
Tel: (0131 6)51 5735
Email: Lyndsay.Hagon@ed.ac.uk
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