Postgraduate Course: Self-Directed Practice 3 - Contextual Assignments 2 (ARCH11160)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 40 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | None |
| Course website |
None |
Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | Indicative course content
Students work on self-selected and generated projects which offer the opportunity to further extend a wide-ranging and in-depth practical and theoretical investigation into the organisational contexts of contemporary art/design, material and visual culture. The student's autonomous position can be made effective through self directed projects that nurture the organisational expertise and presentation abilities needed to successfully practice in the creative sector.
Aims of course
1 To develop individual practice and professional, technical and organisational skills
2 To promote a professional approach to manage, structure and resolve an innovative contribution.
3 Enable students to propose, justify and undertake an advanced personal project with clearly defined critical aims, objectives and methods
Mode of delivery
Individual mentoring, installation, project review, exhibition |
Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | Pre-requisites
none
Co-requisites
none
Prohibited combinations
none |
| Additional Costs | None |
Course Delivery Information
| Not being delivered |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Exploration: demonstrate independent initiative and self-critical application of original ideas
2. Development: demonstrate a fully integrated, critical and contextualised relationship between creative practice and research
3. Synthesis: generate, evaluate and consolidate original research within the production of realised projects |
Assessment Information
Assessment plan
Not entered |
Special Arrangements
| None |
Additional Information
| Academic description |
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| Syllabus |
Not entered |
| Transferable skills |
Not entered |
| Reading list |
Indicative Bibliography
CORNER, JAMES ed. Recovering Landscape, Princeton Architectural Press 1999 FOWLE, KATE To be continued: Contemporary Art Practice in Public Places, B.T. Batsford Ltd, 2003 GALAFORA, LUCA Artscapes: Art as an Approach to Contemporary Landscape, Land & Scape series Editorial Gustavo GILI HILL JONOTHAN Architecture - the Subject is Matter Routledge Lon 2001 KOHOR, ZOYA and LEUN, Simon. Theory in Contemporary Art: From 1985 to the Present, Blackwell Publishing, 2004 KRAUSS, ROSALIND E. Passages in Modern Sculpture, London: Thames and Hudson, 1977 MOSTAFAVI, MOSHEN and NAJLE, CIRO Ed. Landscape Urbanism: A Manual for the Mechanic Landscape Architectural Association, 2003 MUMFORD, LEWIS 'The City in History. Its Origins, its Transformations and its Prospects'. Secker and Warburg. London. 1963 RASHID, HANI Asymptote: Architecture at the Interval Rizzoli 1995 SCHRODER, THIES Changes in Scenery: Contemporary Landscape in Europe, Birkhauser 2001 WELTER, VOLKER Biopolis: Patrick Geddes and the City of Life MIT PRESS, 2002 |
| Study Abroad |
Not entered |
| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 50 hours
Directed study 150 hours
Self-directed study 200 hours
Total 400 hours |
| Keywords | SELF INITIATED WORKING, INSTALLATION, PRACTICE LED INVESTIGATION |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gordon Ross Mclean
Tel: (0131 6)51 5796
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Course secretary | Mrs Elaine Dickson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5737
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