Undergraduate Course: Design Thinking: Narrative Making (ARCH10069)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Design Thinking: Narrative Making, encourages students to think deeply about the role architectural drawings and models play in creating a narrative about a project. It asks students to become aware of how these narratives work, where they act and why they matter. In paying attention to these techniques, approaches and strategies, students can learn how to interrogate and leverage them to tell their own stories, building capacity, increasing credibility. Design Thinking: Narrative Making promotes a deeper understanding of the inter-relations between showing and telling, making and doing to help us to build, promote and expand horizons for architectural discussion and production. |
| Course description |
Design Thinking: Narrative making asks students to familiarise themselves with the ways in which architectural representation can reinforce, support or promote particular narratives, or readings, of buildings. In doing so, it encourages students to think about how representation works, prompting them to experiment with its parameters and possibilities to develop, establish and argue for their own critical response to the contemporary built environment.
In the first stage of the project, Students will form research groups to discuss and analyse a precedent, developing a palette of narrative strategies, representational approaches and critical responses. This work will be supported weekly by group tutorials, workshops and lectures, concluding in a review and Formative submission
In the second stage of the project students will select and develop one strand of investigation from the group work, building on interests generated in stage one and to articulate and refine an individual approach. This work will be supported by weekly individual tutorials. resulting in a Narrative Document and an individually produced exhibition quality drawing or model. These components will be reviewed by internal and external guests in week 10/11 to permit further refinement prior to submission during the Exam Diet.
Students should factor in 200 effort hours associated with this course, some of which will be spent working on proposals in studio and / or in the workshop, both manually and digitally, in groups and autonomously. A weekly expectation is for 15h work, but only 1 day of this is timetabled and attendance in studio is expected during this time.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Much of the materials required for this course will be required for core and compulsory courses taken in parallel by students on the MA (hons) Architecture and / or BA Architecture. Students should budget for a spend of £50 on materials for this course. |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Research and appraise works of existing architectural design to understand how representational strategies reinforce narrative goals.
- Propose and trial a representational strategy which aligns with a particular narrative about, or response to, a work of architecture.
- Create an exhibition quality drawing or model which clearly articulates a defined narrative.
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Reading List
Adams, Kevin. Great Windows in Modern Architecture. Oxford: Taylor & Francis Group, 2024.
Böck, Ingrid, and Rem Koolhaas. Six Canonical Projects by Rem Koolhaas: Essays on the History of Ideas. Vol. 5. Berlin: Jovis, 2015.
Cadwell, Mike. Strange Details. Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press, 2007.
Ryan, Marie-Laure, ed. Narrative across Media: The Languages of Storytelling. Lincoln, Neb. University of Nebraska Press, 2004. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
- Curiosity: Engaging with questions of for what and towards which ends, students will develop a curiosity for questioning the reasons behind the selection of representational strategies and approaches within historic and contemporary architectural discourse.
- Adaptivity: Through thinking about the range ways in which a design project might be presented to a variety of audiences, for a variety of purposes, students will become aware of the adaptation required by designers to make a project legible, attractive or acceptable depending on context.
- Individuality: Through finding ways to critical locate and visualise a particular response to an architectural narrative, students will begin to identify and recognise their individual approach, gaining in credibility and confidence. |
| Keywords | Architectural Argumentation,Persuasive Narrative,Design Technique,Architectural Representation. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Kevin Adams
Tel:
Email: Kevin.Adams@ed.ac.uk |
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