Undergraduate Course: Materials Reimagined (ARCH08058)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 8 (Year 2 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course will investigate a range of core principles, concepts and defining features of the usage of internal construction materials. With a creative, practical and hands-on approach, students will explore materiality through processes of drawing and making. Through a series of group seminars and practical workshops, students will research, gather, draw, build and experiment with materials. The course will introduce a key theme or topic around which students will design, construct and then reimagine interior design details in a variety of materials, as part of a personal creative response to a set brief. |
| Course description |
This course will challenge students to think in a variety of ways about material specification, and also to develop critical insight into their own decision-making process and design work. Seminars, discussions and group work will focus on increasing the students understanding of why designers select particular interior construction materials, the perceived qualities of the former, and their appropriateness to project- and space-specific considerations of function and place.
The course will involve use of ECA's wood and metal (and/or other) workshops, in order to allow students to experiment in materiality through a hand-on approach, engaging with relevant materials in a live context, in order to develop new methods within and approaches to their individual design practice.
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
| Pre-requisites |
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Co-requisites | |
| Prohibited Combinations | |
Other requirements | None |
Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | None |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2024/25, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 17 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 2,
Seminar/Tutorial Hours 4,
Supervised Practical/Workshop/Studio Hours 14,
Fieldwork Hours 2,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 2,
Formative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
170 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
100% weighting for a combined portfolio of research, process and design solutions to include:
Sketchbook(s)/Journal(s) - Documenting journey, process and ideas throughout
A series of 1:1 & scaled models as three-dimensional material explorations, sketch and realised design solutions.
A Design booklet to include;
Written and visual response to research, theory and workshop exploration
Illustrative and technical drawings, demonstrating concept, development and final design ideas
Photographs of models and material exploration throughout
Relationship between Assessment and Learning Outcomes:
All three Learning Outcomes are assessed, and are equally weighted in the assessment of, all assessed components. |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback and Assessment:
Group presentations, tutorials and crits will include verbal feedback from peers and staff on a weekly basis.
Mid-semester, students will submit a self-evaluation form, and be given verbal formative feedback on their work to date.
Summative Feedback and Assessment:
At the end of the course students will submit a final edited portfolio of work and a self-evaluation form, and be given written feedback and grades on their work submitted. |
| No Exam Information |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Evaluate a body of research work and select and realise suitable project solutions through structured and transparent methodologies
- Show independent design initiative in developing an adventurous and coherent visual vocabulary in order to externalise design ideas.
- Demonstrate and apply knowledge of material selection and specification and basic principles of material assembly.
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Reading List
Barthes, R. Mythologies. Vintage Classics. (2009)
Brown, R & Farrelly, L. Materials & Interior Design (Portfolio Skills). Laurence King. (2012)
Miodownik, M. Stuff Matters: The Strange Stories of the Marvellous Materials that Shape our Man-made World. Penguin. (2014)
Kula, D & Ternaux, E. Materiology. Frame Publishers. (2013) |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Material Understanding, Making/Modelmaking, Communication, Construction, Workshop skills |
| Keywords | Materiality,Construction: Workshop,Experiment,Scale,Detail,Reimagine,Practice |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Ms Gina Olsson
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Course secretary | Mr David Currie
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