Postgraduate Course: Making Internal Connections (DESI11204)
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 | When makers collaborate, they not only create work together but also forge new alliances and collaborations, leading to the development of new intersectional methods and approaches. This course will encourage you to make internal connections with others on the course to explore collaborative practice and create a collaborative project. Your coursework will be focused on joint making projects and you will intersect with students from different cross-disciplinary craft and design backgrounds in ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery and silversmithing. |
| Course description |
'Collaborative making' is an essential part of the creative process within the field of Craft. Creating work collaboratively gives craft the power to transcend disciplinary boundaries and to connect with others through making. Through this course you will complete a range of collaborative activities and tasks. You will engage in a series of 'Collaborative' themed workshops in cross-disciplinary groupings across the disciplines of ceramics, glass, textiles, jewellery & silversmithing. You will engage with the creative possibilities of collaboration through idea generation, scenario building, story boarding and case study examples, and a planned collaboration event to connect with internal collaborators on the course. Through group work you will conduct a collaborative making project with your internal collaborator(s). Research methods such as a collaborative research journal, sketchbooks and technical notebooks will demonstrate your collaborative process. You will gather invaluable feedback by presenting your collaborative project to both staff and students. You will use their insights and feedback as a crucial way to refine and enhance your collaborative project and start to develop ideas and a plan for the follow-on semester 2 course, which will see you make external connections outwith ECA.
Working with leading craft practitioners in the field, you will participate in a series of practical workshops and studio demonstrations (4 hours per week, in weeks 1-6). You will be taught how to engage in collaborative craft practice through a series of exercises, tasks and in-class discussions to develop and build a collaborative skillset that will help you to connect with others through your making. This will be led through in course discussions, group critique and open studio debate. You will actively seek input and feedback at all stages of your collaborative craft process. Throughout this course you will present and work in small working groups. Teaching sessions will include a dedicated pre-recorded short lecture series (2 hours per week - in weeks 1-6) which will explore and contextualise the field of collaborative craft theory and practice, which will be delivered as a flipped classroom. 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:
- Critically analyse and engage with a range of craft principles, theories and discourses to develop an original enquiry for an external collaboration project.
- Communicate and present their internal collaboration, using appropriate methods, to show a diverse understanding of their collaborative craft process and the realised practical outcomes.
- Review and reflect upon their research by exploring and constructing an internal collaboration project that assesses the impact of their collaborative practice.
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Reading List
Adamson, Glenn (2007) Thinking Through Craft. Oxford: Berg.
Felcey, Helen, Kettle, Alice & Ravetz, Amanada (2017) Craft Through Collaboration. London: Bloomsbury.
Gauntlett, David (2018) Making is Connecting: The Social Power of Creativity, from Craft and Knitting to Digital Everything. Second expanded edition. Cambridge: Polity Press.
Gladwell, Malcolm (2008) Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown & Company.
Greenhalgh, Paul (2002) The Persistence of Craft. London A&C Black.
Kester, Grant (2011) The One and the Many: Contemporary Collaborative Art in a Global Context. Duke University Press. |
Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Enquiry and lifelong learning: Seek out personal enquiry and academic learning through collaboration to make a positive difference to their own lives and to the communities around them. They will become inspired by world-leading research into external engagement and outreach developing an intellectual curiosity which will help to establish themselves as innovative and lifelong learners in and beyond the field.
Outlook & Engagement: Become engaged with the context of collaborative craft practice, through both local and national communities, whilst also connecting and situating their practice within the wider international craft context. Whilst encouraging them to consider the impact of their work, and to carefully consider the implications of their collaborative craft practice on others.
Personal Effectiveness: Become aware of the personal effectiveness by using their enthusiasm for the disciplines, their skillsets, and personal motivation to develop and reach the goals set out for them in their collaboration project.
Personal and intellectual autonomy: Critically evaluate ideas, evidence, and experiences from an open-minded and reasoned perspective, becoming situated in the field of collaborative craft. |
| Keywords | Collaboration,craft theory,craft practice,making,critical reflection |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Miss Collette Paterson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5812
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