Postgraduate Course: Connecting Interiors (ARCH11298)
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 | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | In this course you will explore how interiors connect to one other as individual spaces and how they connect with contexts and ideas beyond their individual boundaries.
You will be introduced to strategic spatial approaches for addressing complex problems for a given site. You will explore and evaluate a range of spatial theories and frameworks and use these to inform creative and practical approaches which address critical lines of enquiry. The outcome of your interior and spatial enquiry will be a macro-scale design response. You will also prepare a design research proposal to be developed during the Intersection course |
| Course description |
In this course you will engage with a given site by exploring and analysing its relation to contexts that exceed its envelope. You will explore a range of interior, spatial and architectural theories to understand how functions, typologies, activities and conditions of site and situation relate to and intersect with ideas and concepts of people and society. Through research and practical exploratory methods, you will develop a critical enquiry, informed by your understanding of spatial theory and the potential of the site, to propose a new function or inhabitation for the site. You will address the complexity of the site by adopting a strategic approach for the development of the design project, and situate your methods in appropriate spatial theories. In developing a critical design response that is contextualised by a range of theoretical positions, you will be able to propose a 'manifesto' and design project proposal that addresses your personal approach for the interior, to be undertaken in the Intersections course.
The learning on this course integrates lectures, seminars and workshops, where you will explore and develop practical approaches to understanding and applying spatial theories. Weekly lectures, field work and demonstrations, followed by group seminar discussions and activities, will support you in exploring specific theoretical and practical approaches. Informed by the lectures and reading assignments, you will undertake independent research, individually and in groups, to share through presentations and reviews with the course cohort in the first half of the course. Workshops across the semester, and individual tutorials during the second half of the course, will support the development of your individual enquiry and design response. Support for techniques for graphic presentation and communication of theory and design concepts with also be provided through the presentations and workshops.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | Field trips: incl. Local travel. Please budget: approx. £30, drawing and model-making materials, printing costs (approx. £50) |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Critically explore, evaluate and apply varying interior, architectural and spatial theories through a range of special research techniques that address a critical line of enquiry
- Exercise autonomy, initiative and innovation in the production of strategic spatial responses to complex problems in a given interior
- Execute appropriate modes of representation and dissemination to communicate design and research proposals to a range of audiences
- Exercise critical evaluation and reflection in the development of a design research enquiry to explore and situate an independently conceived definition of the interior
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Reading List
Awan, Nishat, Tatjana Schneider and Jeremy Till Spatial Agency: Other Ways of Doing Architecture Routledge, 2013
Gehl, Yan. Cities for People, Island Press, 2010
Higgins, Ian. Spatial Strategies for Interior Design, Laurence King Publishing, 2015
Jacobs, Jane. The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Modern Library, New York 2011
Kern, Leslie. Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World, Verso, 2020 |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Critical Thinking and Inclusivity: By analysing, exploring, and interpreting theories of spatial planning as they relate to social, cultural and political contexts, you will develop your independent critical thinking in an open minded and reasonable perspective.
Curiosity, Problem Solving and Adaptivity: This course will help you build confidence in reading and interpreting theoretical texts in order to identify and creatively address real-world issues, and to seek out opportunities for further enquiry.
Communication: This course will help you in communicating, through a range of professional and creative media, sophisticated and complex ideas and modes of enquiry to a range of audiences and engage effectively with others. |
| Keywords | Strategic Planning,Interior Environment,Exploratory Methods,Spatial Theory. |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Dave Loder
Tel:
Email: dloder@ed.ac.uk |
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