Undergraduate Course: Art, Environment and Sustainability (LLLA07110)
Course Outline
| School | Centre for Open Learning |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 7 (Year 1 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 10 |
ECTS Credits | 5 |
| Summary | This course will explore how cultural interpretations of the non-human world can be a factor in understanding the environment and the crisis in global ecological sustainability. There is an opportunity to explore both a wide range of art practices and focus on such key areas as human-animal relations, climate change and species loss and the city and globalization for example.
Art, Environment and Sustainability offers students the chance to explore interrelated topics such as eco-art, human/nonhuman relations and sustainability and apply these to their own practice in greater depth.
Students will employ strategies to investigate and understand the natural world, developing a curiosity about the natural world and demonstrate an increasing awareness of the interdependence between all living things and the environment.
Through a series of projects, group discussion and collaborative exercises students will experiment with materials and develop a portfolio of work that will combine personal research with a consideration of how to develop their own ideas through practice in and out of the studio. |
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- RESEARCH: Develop the capacity for self-directed research and extend this into practical projects which consider environmental issues.
- PRACTICE: Develop a range of research into their own practical projects, which is expressed through a contemporary language of drawing and painting and/or other media.
- PRESENT: Produce a coherent body of practical work that synergises students' personal research of environmental themes into studio practices and project development.
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Reading List
Recommended Books
The Postmodern Animal (Essays in Art & Culture), Steve Baker
Art and Animals, Giovanni Aloi
Land Art; The Earth As Canvas, Michael Lailach
Land and Environmental Art, Jeffrey Kastner & Brian Wallis
Art and the Public Sphere, W. J. T. Mitchell
Land and Environmental Art, Jeffrey Kastner & Brian Wallis
Environmental Art edited by Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome,
John McBrewster
Art & Visual Culture 1850 - 2010: Modernity to Globalisation, Steve Edwards & Paul Wood
Websites
http://greenupgrader.com/4473/environmental-art-using-the-landscape-as-a-medium/
http://www.cynthiarobinson.net/ecoart.html
http://www.britishanimalstudiesnetwork.org.uk/Home.aspx
http://www.antennae.org.uk/
http://beautifuldecay.com/2010/07/21/green-art-10-artists-working-with-recycled-materials/
http://greenmuseum.org/what_is_ea.php |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Drawing and painting skills
Developing personal research skills in and out of studio
Translation of research into studio practice
Research through expression
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| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Oliver Reed
Tel:
Email: Oliver.Reed@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Mr John Ethcuit
Tel:
Email: jethcuit@exseed.ed.ac.uk |
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