Postgraduate Course: ASN: The Exploded Studio/City (ARCH11178)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Humanities and Social Science |
| Course type | Standard |
Availability | Available to all students |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) |
Credits | 20 |
| Home subject area | Architecture and Landscape Architecture |
Other subject area | Art |
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Taught in Gaelic? | No |
| Course description | This course offers a practice led approach, supported through group seminars, to explore the city as a context of creative practice and action. The studio will explore dynamic structures and patterns of thought as opportunities to engage ideas across varying contexts, disciplinary, and situational boundaries, beyond conventional academic structures, to provide a greater range of experiential settings for students. This involves critical exploration of site informed practices, urban pedagogies and cultural geography, interrelated with modes of visual and spatial expression, to evaluate the built environment.
This course is open to students with an interest in exploring the dynamics of site, context, urbanisation and landscape, by evaluating constructed space through a philosophical lens. The studio will provide opportunities for personal assignments, as creative reactions to place specific or site informed practice, involving improvisation, tools, and performance, to capture an experiential sense of place. To enhance practice this course has a series of reading groups and thematic seminars to explore precedents of creative practice and contemporary ideas.
Aims:
To explore public space through comparative urban pedagogies and strategies;
To deploy a range of methods and tools to evaluate public space;
To expand practice and knowledge into the public realm.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| Displayed in Visiting Students Prospectus? | No |
Course Delivery Information
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| Delivery period: 2013/14 Semester 2, Available to all students (SV1)
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Learn enabled: Yes |
Quota: None |
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Web Timetable |
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| Course Start Date |
13/01/2014 |
| Breakdown of Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
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| Breakdown of Assessment Methods (Further Info) |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
1. Reflection: document a series of precedents through personal research interests related to the course subject area
2. Exploration: undertake personal research into a specific area of public space interpretation
3. Synthesis: undertake a practical project that demonstrates a methodical approach to public space
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Assessment Information
Students will be assessed on a clear rationale that underpins a practical response to the course subject area, developed by the student as a practical output that can be justified on a theoretical level.
The course will offer a structured approach for development through individual tutorials and group discussion. Group interaction is encouraged and given the multidisciplinary make-up of the studio cohort collaborative projects are encouraged. The criteria for assessment are aligned with the learning outcomes and course aims.
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Special Arrangements
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Additional Information
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| Study Abroad |
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| Study Pattern |
Contact hours 20 hours (group tutorial)
Directed study 5 hours (personal tuition)
Self-directed study 45 hours
Total 70 hours |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Mr Gordon Ross Mclean
Tel: (0131 6)51 5796
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Course secretary | Mr Daniel Emmerson
Tel: 0131 651 5738
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