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Undergraduate Course: The Dynamics of Landscape: Movement and Change (LLLA07227)

Course Outline
SchoolCentre for Open Learning CollegeCollege of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
Credit level (Normal year taken)SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) AvailabilityNot available to visiting students
SCQF Credits10 ECTS Credits5
SummaryThis course is designed to encourage self exploration of drawing and painting processes to render change and movement. The student will explore how to develop a working practice that begins with the collection and selection of visual information about ecological natural systems and ends with the measured task of arrangement, re- arrangement of landscape based art.
Course description Students will research and develop a body of work based on ideas about the landscape, informed by researching a range of 'dynamic' systems of the natural world. A combination of sketches and notes on land forms and abstract patterns will inspire a new perspective on responding to the landscape. Active research is required to determine fields of knowledge that will inform the scope of making images that reflect a personal response to the landscape and natural phenomena, examples of these systems are microorganisms, soil, rocks and atmospheric conditions.

Outline of Content:

Experiment with mixed media to create a range of surface qualities, marks and grounds
Collect and select visual information on ecological systems in the sketchbook
Adapt and modify fragments of maps and abstract patterns to use as collage fragments
Create a series of composite working drawings which explore transparent and opaque qualities of materials
Using Mono print technique, collage and transfer make a series of test pieces in mono chrome
Develop colour studies
Explore the impact of changing scale using paint and collage
Employ cropping technique to define starting points for working in series.
Map out personal projects to define, quantify and outline intentions
Document work in progress
Participate in group discussion and critiques

The Learning Experience:

The teaching will be based and delivered in specialist art and design studios or workshops and will typically include a range of practical exercises, introductions to techniques, processes and concepts, and set projects which lead to more focused and personal exploration. Over the course, student progress will be monitored and supported by the tutor. Teaching will include practical demonstrations, one to one tuition, group discussions and critiques.

For work required to be undertaken after the class hours are complete, the course tutor will set students a 'directed study plan' which can be undertaken without the need for specialist workshops or access to models.

Directed study will include research into a range of suggested artists or designers and their associated movements to engender a contextual awareness of the sculpted figure in visual culture. Students will be expected to demonstrate how the research has informed their work through annotated sketchbooks or visual journals and practical outcomes. The Directed Study Plan will include preparing evidence of research and practical work to form an appropriate presentation for assessment.
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites Co-requisites
Prohibited Combinations Other requirements None
Additional Costs Materials List:

Drawing medium (at least three to begin the course)
Graphite stick, conte crayon, black marker pen, coloured biro pens, soft pastel ( 1red, 1yellow, 1blue), oil pastel ( 1white, 1 black, wax crayons, black drawing ink
Eraser
Scissors
1 A4 soft cover stapled Sketchbook and 1 hard backed (A3 or A4 size)
Images cut out from newspaper s
Acrylic paint- Cadmium red, crimson, cadmium yellow, lemon yellow, cobalt blue, ultramarine, viridian or phthalo green and titanium white.
Course Delivery Information
Academic year 2022/23, Not available to visiting students (SS1) Quota:  10
Course Start Lifelong Learning - Session 3
Timetable Timetable
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) Total Hours: 100 ( Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 2, Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours 98 )
Assessment (Further Info) Written Exam 0 %, Coursework 100 %, Practical Exam 0 %
Additional Information (Assessment) Formative Assessment: A formative assessment session will occur in week 6 or 7 of the taught element of the course. Each student will undertake a 5 minute verbally presentation with their practical work in progress to other members of the class group followed by a 5 minute group critique supported by the course tutor. Each student will also electronically submit their work in progress digital journal to the course tutor.

Indicative and supportive feedback will be summarised in written form on the digital journal which will give an indication of what areas requires to be address in order to meet the published learning outcomes. This will comprise of short written summary of action points.

Summative Assessment: Two weeks after the end of the class teaching, this course will be assessed by the submission of:

A digital journal documenting a summary of the learning journey as evidenced in the portfolio (Indicate time spent: 20 hours)
This will include a summary of idea development, media exploration, contextual research, critical reflection and outcomes through notes, annotation, illustration and photography.

A portfolio of visual art/design works (Indicate time spent: 80 hours)
This will include a selection of resolved design works, sketchbook works, preparatory studies, visual research and evidence of a contextual awareness.


The Digital Journal and Portfolio 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 Digital Journal and Portfolio submission will be assessed against the three learning outcomes for this course. These are equally weighted (33.3% each) and each will be given a percentage grade. To pass, students must achieve a minimum of 30% in each learning outcome and an overall combined mark of 40% minimum.
Feedback Formative Assessment: This will comprise of short written summary of action points of areas requiring addressing to meet the learning outcomes - but no indicative grades will be given.

Summative Assessment: On completion of the assessment, each student will receive a % mark for each learning outcome along with written feedback putting in context the % mark and outlines areas for development.
No Exam Information
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
  1. Research, context and ideas (33.3%): Develop a work ethic in the sketchbook that reflects a sense of engagement and evidence of deeper self directed study in aspects of patterns in nature.
  2. Practice, skills and techniques (33.3%): Employ a mixed media approach imaginatively, to produce a range of works that explore a personal response to the idea of change and movement in landscape.
  3. Selection, presentation and reflection (33.3%): Develop and present a coherent series of related artworks which considers the potential of using abstract natural patterns as a vehicle of expression in landscape based works.
Reading List
Suggested Reading:

MEHRETU, J, 2007, Julie Mehretu: drawings, New York, N.Y: Rizzoli International Publications
GIACOMETTI, A, 1965, Alberto Giacometti, Garden City, N.Y: Distributed by Doubleday
CALAME, I, Ingrid Calame, 2011, Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery
WINTERS, T, Terry Winters: computation of chains, 1997, New York: Mathew Marks Gallery
PARTENHEIMER, J, Jurgen Partenheimer: discontinuity, paradox & precision,2008,Birmingham: Ikon Gallery: Bonn: Kunstmuseum Bonn
ROTH, D, Dieter Roth: diaries, 2012, Edinburgh: Fruitmarket Gallery
DURY, C, Chris Drury: silent spaces, 1998, London: Thames and Hudson
McKEEVER, I, 2010, Artists' laboratory: Ian McKeever: Hartgrove paintings and photographs, London: Royal Academy of Arts


Web sources:
http://museum.stanford.edu/diebenkornsketchbooks/
http://www.in-terre-active.net/
http://www.marymorrison.co.uk/
https://uk.pinterest.com/portico_/architect-perry-kulper/
Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills Using a sketchbook as an artist's / designer's tool.
Recording and developing visual ideas.
Effective use of drawing, painting and mixed media.
To undertake research and reflective practice and apply these in the context of the sketchbook within visual culture.
Keywordssketchbook,drawing,painting,mixed media,reflective practice
Contacts
Course organiserMr Robbie Bushe
Tel:
Email: r.bushe@ed.ac.uk
Course secretaryMs Kameliya Skerleva
Tel: (0131 6)51 1855
Email: Kameliya.Skerleva@ed.ac.uk
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