Postgraduate Course: Research by Design: Mediums, Strategies, Propositions (ARCH11076)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art | 
College | College of Humanities and Social Science | 
 
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 11 (Postgraduate) | 
 
| Course type | Dissertation | 
Availability | Not available to visiting students | 
 
| SCQF Credits | 160 | 
ECTS Credits | 80 | 
 
 
| Summary | This course examines the key debates in practice-led research and the development of intellectually and materially engaged design propositions. It covers the principle positions in these debate across a range of design-related fields and investigates the philosophical underpinnings of the idea of visual- and material-knowledges. The course is focussed on examining the possibilities of non-textual forms of research output, and their relationship to contemporary debates on design and the built environment. | 
 
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Entry Requirements (not applicable to Visiting Students)
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Other requirements |  None | 
 
 
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2015/16, Not available to visiting students (SS1) 
  
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Quota:  None | 
 
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Full Year | 
 
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Components of Assessment  
Architectural Design Portfolio (consisting of representations of designs, drawings, models, films, constructions and texts) equivalent to 25000 words. 
 
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Learning Outcomes 
    Learning Outcomes 
*  Understand the range of architectural design strategies and their implications for progressing debate on the built environment 
*  Engage creatively and experimentally with a range of diverse design mediums 
*  Critically assess the usefulness and effectiveness (rhetorical, factual, analytical) of given design strategies in relation to contemporary cultural production and the built environment 
*  Develop plausible research questions and hypotheses, and design research methodologies that might satisfactorily test them. 
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Contacts 
| Course organiser | Dr Dorian Wiszniewski 
Tel: (0131 6)50 2311 
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Course secretary | Mrs Elaine Dickson 
Tel: (0131 6)51 5737 
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