Postgraduate Course: Developing Critical Making (DESI11201)
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 | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | Developing Critical Making will teach you to how to further develop your individual craft practice through an extended self-directed research project that follows on directly from the 'Exploring Critical Making' course. You will advance and further develop your skills, confidence and creative tools, building upon and further developing your critical craft practice. This course will help you to further expand your skillset to develop critically engaged making and thinking. You will continue to drive innovative material-led practices and methods, with a perspective to address responsible and conscious materials and making that creates sustainable, socially responsible outcomes. |
| Course description |
Through this course you will further develop your approach to critical making through advanced studio exercises, tasks, and debates to further develop and build upon your individual craft practice. Through this course you will be asked to critically position and situate yourself as a craft practitioner, you will complete a range of tasks and activities that will place you in the contemporary craft context. You will develop your craft practice through the lens of critical making, the outcome of the course will be to realise a self-directed research project that further develops and advances your individual craft practice. Learning how to make work that can withstand critique, is integral to this course, which will be delivered within a critical environment driven by staff and peer review. This course will enable you to build upon and further develop your initial exploratory research from Semester 1. You will start to develop your professional, technical, and creative craft skillsets enhancing your individual craft practice. This course will enable you to propose, justify and undertake an advanced research project with clearly defined critical aims, objectives, and research methods. You will continue to develop and consolidate your critical making skills, through critical self-analysis and reflective appraisal.
You will conduct advanced experimentation through material testing and prototyping to refine and resolve your project. Research methods such as a reflective journal, sketchbook and a technical notebook will be used to document your work. In the final part of the course, you will gather invaluable feedback by presenting your projects to both staff and students.
Working with leading craft practitioners in the field, a series of skills development workshops and studio demonstrations will be delivered. Weekly teaching sessions will include a dedicated pre-recorded weekly lectures series (2 hours per week) which will further explore the field of Critical Craft theory and practice, through a flipped classroom model. This will be supported through group crits, peer feedback and weekly group tutorials and/or seminars (1-2 hours per week).
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements | None |
| Additional Costs | The nature of this studio course is that materials will be consumed and used in the development of your prototypes, models, and visualisations (including printing). For this course, it is expected that you might spend an average of £50, but these costs fluctuate significantly depending upon individual projects and your choice of materials involved with the project. At ECA we promote the reuse and recycling of materials, students are actively encouraged to access the free-use hub where possible or appropriate to their projects. We also would like to note that success in the course is not linked to expenditure; novel or sustainable approaches to material use will be commended. |
Course Delivery Information
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- Review and reflect upon their research, by constructing a self-directed research project that advances their craft practice.
- Communicate their craft practice, using appropriate methods, to show a contextual understanding of their craft practice.
- Establish and conduct an independent research inquiry into critical making that generates innovative concepts in craft practice.
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Reading List
Adamson, Glenn. (2018) The Craft Reader London: Bloomsbury.
Adamson, Glenn. (2013) The invention of Craft, London: Bloomsbury.
Alfoldy, Sandra. ed. (2007) NeoCraft: Modernity and the Crafts. Halifax: Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design.
Cheasley Paterson, Elaine and Surette, Susan. ed. (2015) Sloppy Craft Post disciplinarity and the crafts, London: Bloomsbury.
Risatti, Howard. (2013) A Theory of Craft, University North Carolina Press.
Veiteberg, Jorunn. (2005) Craft in Transition, Bergen National Academy of the Arts. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Students on the course possess and/or wish to develop a number of key attributes, mindsets and skills, both on personal and a professional level.
University of Edinburgh Graduate Attributes: Mindsets
Enquiry and lifelong learning: Students will learn how to seek out personal enquiry and academic learning through which will help them to make a positive difference to their own lives and to the communities around them. They will become inspired by world-leading research in craft practice, developing an intellectual curiosity which will help to establish themselves as innovative and lifelong learners in and beyond the field.
Aspiration and personal development: Students will draw on their own initiative and previous experience of craft practice to expand and fulfil their potential as future craft practitioners. They will develop a confident and critically reflective approach, which will see them take personal responsibility for pursuing their goals and seeking out opportunities to help them grow their own professional craft practice.
University of Edinburgh Graduate Attributes: Skill groups
Research and Enquiry: Students will use their highly developed skills in craft research and enquiry to identify and creatively tackle problems and will seek out opportunities for their own learning that enhances this approach.
Personal and intellectual autonomy: Students will use their personal and intellectual autonomy to critically evaluate ideas, evidence, and experiences from an open-minded and reasoned perspective, becoming situated in the contemporary context of craft.
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| Keywords | craft,practice,development,consolidation,critical making,testing,prototyping |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Jessamy Kelly
Tel: (0131 6)51 5816
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