Postgraduate Course: Design with Data (DESI11025)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | The course, offered in Semester 2, offers a challenge-led context in which to explore the cultural and technical implications of developing solutions that integrate digital network technologies with established design methodologies. The course introduces the concept of a dualism between the material and immaterial nature of things and experiences. Through a combination of lectures, skills-based sessions and tutorials the course will support a contemporary enquiry into what design with data might be. The lecture series will provide a critical framework, investigating the impact of technology upon traditional understandings of material objects, its relationship to meaning, value, its social role, and how technology allows for an extension of this thinking into the digital realm across a range of subjects.
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| Course description |
A series of practical sessions will support the development of a piece of coursework, whose outcome will be an experimental construction in both digital and physical media that responds to the challenge theme of the course. Students will be encouraged to record research material as a portfolio or URL.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 75 |
| Course Start |
Semester 2 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 50,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
146 )
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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 are expected to develop personal practical perspectives upon the series of lectures and manufacture a significant piece of coursework that demonstrates these ideas applied to a challenge area. Learning outcomes will be assessed by coursework through a group presentation that articulates a theoretical framework for their practical work, submission of a digital artefact, and a submission of a portfolio or URL that evidences their research, progress and findings throughout the course of the course. Group marks will be adjusted through peer assessment.
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Investigate and apply critical theories through a practical interactive digital media project.
- Demonstrate the initiation and evaluation of original creative concepts in response to research findings through critical assessment.
- Use digital media to design and develop, critical, conceptual and experimental approaches to problem solving.
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Reading List
Indicative Bibliography
1. Anders, P., Cybrid Landscape [online] Available: http://www.uoc.edu/caiia-star- 2001/eng/articles/anders0302/anders0302.html [date accessed: 20 August 2010]. 2001.
2. Bleeker, J. A Manifesto for Networked Objects: Cohabitating with Pigeons, Arphids and Aibos in the Internet of Things. California: University of Southern California (2006).
3. Greenfield, A. Everyware: The dawning age of ubiquitous computing. Berkley: New Riders (2006)
4. Latour, B. Where Are the Missing Masses? The Sociology of a Few Mundane
5. Latour, B. Reassembling the Social. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005.
6. Artifacts in Shaping Technology / Building Society: Studies in Sociotechnical Change London: Bijker, Law (1992): 225-228
7. Sterling, B. Shaping Things. Cambridge: The MIT Press (2005)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
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| Keywords | Digital Media,Digital Culture |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mrs Lynne Craig
Tel:
Email: Lynne.Craig@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Ms Ruth Lee
Tel:
Email: clee5@ed.ac.uk |
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