Undergraduate Course: Materials Reimagined (DESI08139)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will investigate a range of core principles, concepts and defining features of the usage of internal construction materials. With a creative, practical and hands-on approach, students will explore materiality through processes of drawing and making. Through a series of group seminars and practical workshops, students will research, gather, draw, build and experiment with materials. The course will introduce a key theme or topic around which students will design, construct and then reimagine interior design details in a variety of materials, as part of a personal creative response to a set brief. |
| Course description |
This course will challenge students to think in a variety of ways about material specification, and also to develop critical insight into their own decision-making process and design work. Seminars, discussions and group work will focus on increasing the students understanding of why designers select particular interior construction materials, the perceived qualities of the former, and their appropriateness to project- and space-specific considerations of function and place.
The course will involve use of ECA's wood and metal (and/or other) workshops, in order to allow students to experiment in materiality through a hand-on approach, engaging with relevant materials in a live context, in order to develop new methods within and approaches to their individual design practice.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
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Other requirements | This course is open to ALL STUDENTS and enrolments are managed on a first come first served basis until the course is full. The course will be open to enrolments from Wednesday 11th September at 11.00 am. Please sign up for the course through your own School (they will advise if this is done via your PT, SSO or Teaching Office). We do not currently keep a waiting list. |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate a body of research work and select and realise suitable project solutions through structured and transparent methodologies.
- Show independent design initiative in developing an adventurous and coherent visual vocabulary in order to externalise design ideas.
- Demonstrate and apply knowledge of material selection and specification and basic principles of material assembly.
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Reading List
Barthes, R. Mythologies. Vintage Classics. (2009)
Brown, R & Farrelly, L. Materials & Interior Design (Portfolio Skills). Laurence King. (2012)
Miodownik, M. Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape our Man-made World. Penguin. (2014)
Kula, D & Ternaux, E. Materiology. Frame Publishers. (2013)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Material Understanding, Making/Modelmaking, Communication, Construction, Workshop skills |
| Keywords | Materiality,Construction: Workshop,Experiment,Scale,Detail,Reimagine,Practice |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Gina Leith
Tel:
Email: gina.leith@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Georgia Dodsworth
Tel: (0131 6)51 5712
Email: georgia.dodsworth@ed.ac.uk |
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