Undergraduate Course: Design Research 4 (Textiles) (DESI10027)
Course Outline
| School | Edinburgh College of Art |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 4 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Not available to visiting students |
| SCQF Credits | 40 |
ECTS Credits | 20 |
| Summary | This course is only available to students in the School of Design.
Indicative course content
This course enables students to develop a personal, integrated, critical and reflective design approach appropriate to their chosen discipline. Students work on self-selected and generated projects within a studio environment.
Aims of course
1 develop and consolidate personal creative methods, techniques and approaches
2 explore how practitioners generate and justify personal project briefs
3 develop and consolidate personal approaches to materials and processes
Mode of delivery
Studio-Based Project Work, Group Crits, Individual and Group Mentoring, Project Review |
| Course description |
As Summary
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Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Not available to visiting students (SS1)
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Quota: 15 |
| Course Start |
Full Year |
| Course Start Date |
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Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
400
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Seminar/Tutorial Hours 22,
Feedback/Feedforward Hours 50,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 8,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
320 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
0 %,
Coursework
100 %,
Practical Exam
0 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Assessment is by submission of portfolio of project work at the end of the course. |
| Feedback |
Formative feedback/feedforward is provided at designated points during the course, and may take a variety of forms (e.g., written verbal) and be delivered through a variety of contexts (e.g., one-to-one meeting, small group crit, VLE posting). |
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Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- INVESTIGATE: use a variety of practical and theoretical methods to demonstrate a sustained and rigorous investigation of personal research themes
- CHALLENGE: analyse issues arising from the research and challenge established precepts and assumptions
- PLAN: demonstrate a sense of purpose in the development of lines of research inquiry
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Reading List
DESI10027 Design Research 4- Textiles
- Cole, D. The Pattern Sourcebook: A Century of Surface
Design. Laurence King (2009)
- Clarke, S. Textile Design (Portfolio). Laurence King (2011)
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Keywords | Not entered |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Miss Collette Paterson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5812
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Course secretary | Ms Jane Thomson
Tel: (0131 6)51 5713
Email: |
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