Undergraduate Course: Drawn From the City (ARTX08058)
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 | The city invites exploration across a compact and diverse topography, where evidence of the historic and the contemporary can often be found side by side. In an urban site we can discover a range of phenomena, the physical, psychological and ephemeral, all of which invite a wide range of interpretation and response. Through three distinct yet related projects students on this course will be encouraged to employ a variety of tactics in establishing and developing a personal language of response. This could be through drawing, photography, recording, film making, repurposing objects, notation or writing. The course will have recorded lectures and other resources alongside online structured tutorials, and discussion. Art Practice, research strategies, and the presentation of finished work will be addressed through online lectures from a variety of ECA staff with different expertise. |
Course description |
During this course students will upload their artwork and research onto a blog that functions as a digital portfolio. This will be used as an aid to generate feedback in both teaching and group critique contexts.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Priority will be given to those on a degree programme in the School of Art, but enrolment for outside students will open in Welcome Week. |
Additional Costs | Field Trips and drawing materials |
Information for Visiting Students
Pre-requisites | These enrolments are managed strictly by the Visiting Student Office, in line with the quotas allocated by the departments, and all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. It is not appropriate for students to contact the department directly to request additional spaces.
Please note that this course may incur materials costs & field trip costs. |
High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 34 |
Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Course Start Date |
13/01/2025 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 6,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 10,
Fieldwork Hours 20,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 3,
Formative Assessment Hours 3,
Summative Assessment Hours 4,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
150 )
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Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% Coursework Students will develop a blog with the following content: Primary research sketches / recordings/ photographs / notes from lectures & personal field trips and reflections (LO1)
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Evidence of personal secondary research (the work of other artists or other related phenomena) in the form of 15 sourced works such as images, websites, videos, sound works or quoted text, each of which should be appropriately annotated; and a reflective statement of 600 words (LO2)
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3 to 6 resolved artworks made as a personal response to the thematic (LO3) |
Feedback |
Not entered |
No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Present evidence of research and investigation of the city as a space and an idea.
- Present evidence of identifying methods of recording and the development of a personal language through drawing and other appropriate strategies.
- Present a body of work that articulates a focussed response to the subject.
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Reading List
Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino. ISBN-10: 0099429837
The Acoustic City, Matthew Gandy, Benny Nilsen. ISBN-10: 9783868592719
Ruins (Documents of Contemporary Art) Brian Dillon ISBN-10: 085488193X
An Attempt at Exhausting a place in Paris, Georges Perec, ISBN-10: 0984115528
Walking and Mapping: Artists as Cartographers) Karen O'Rourke, ISBN-10: 0262018500
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Additional Information
Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Development of Drawing / observational / analytical skills.
Development of abilities re planning and resolving a personally motivated project.
Development of Research skills, library and location based, & through use of personal and city resources.
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Keywords | Edinburgh,Drawing,Mapping,Observation |
Contacts
Course organiser | Mr Ewan Robertson
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Email: e.robertson@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Nanami Chen
Tel:
Email: ychen7@ed.ac.uk |
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