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2020/21 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

DESN2705 Cutting edge: Collage as reconfiguring

10 creditsClass Size: 25

Module manager: Dr Eirini Boukla
Email: e.boukla@leeds.ac.uk

Taught: Semester 1 (Sep to Jan), Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2020/21

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

Collage is one of the most contemporary ways of making and thinking. We all use “cut and paste” techniques every day of our lives. From technically skillful works to deliberately jarring juxtapositions it offers endless creative possibilities. With a focus on an open-ended process this module explores the formal and conceptual power of collage, including contrasting found images and text, to create everything from social and political commentaries to Surrealist fantasies and personal confessions. The module will focus on the exploration of lo-fi “cut and paste” processes to underpin a variety of thematic investigations with an emphasis on working through ideas with everyday materials.

Objectives

To extend and develop your image-making/drawing skills through exploratory collage techniques and processes, further understanding the potential of the medium as a form of speculative visual enquiry.
To develop a clear understanding and technical knowledge of collage and through trial and error.
To develop the craft of the process to a professional standard and execution.
To further extend your knowledge and referencing of artists and designers – collage techniques, processes and approaches ( contemporary and historic) and consider your practice in relation to professional context(s) and application(s).

Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, you will be able to:

1Use collage as a vehicle for hypothesis, making, organisation and visual enquiry.

2 Confidently and competently use a diversity of equipment, tools and collage related materials.

3 Understand the nature and quality of the collage medium in relation to your practice as an underpinning, integrative and/or supportive activity, expanding your creative and perceptual expertise and extending your pursuit of inventive/unique outcomes.

4 Extend your pursuit of inventive/unique outcomes recognising and understanding the place of collage in art & design practice within a contemporary and historic setting.

Syllabus

Week one to week five group discussion through seminars and tutorials will identify how to develop and extend your individual image making/drawing skills, which will be explored through a set range collage techniques and processes.
Week six to week eleven you will self-direct your own project while exploring and identifying your own collage approach, methods and techniques.

Throughout you will be encouraged to gain knowledge of collage as a fine art/design medium and ‘artefact’ through your own independent research.

Teaching methods

Delivery type	Number	Length hours	Student hours
Practical	10	0.50	5.00
Seminar	10	0.50	5.00
Tutorial	1	1.00	1.00
Private study hours			89.00
Total Contact hours			11.00
Total hours (100hr per 10 credits)			100.00

Private study

Through visual research assemble, select, document, evaluate and make visible various types of information.

Develop and expand both critically and materially, your processes and methods beyond the module’s weekly teaching space.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

Group and individual tutorials will provide formative opportunities to evaluate and review progression throughout. Student progress will be monitored also through their attendance and via their engagement with the module. Each student will develop a proposal for their project which is submitted in Week 6 and will provide a point for formal feedback.

Methods of assessment

Coursework

Assessment type	Notes	% of formal assessment
Portfolio	Collection of images	50.00
Reflective log	sketchbook/notebllk	50.00
Total percentage (Assessment Coursework)		100.00

Assessment is through a sketchbook/notebook including personal notes and research and a portfolio which must comprise a minimum of 20 developmental studies/drawings/samples and at least 5 finished works.

Reading list

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 10/08/2020 08:35:03

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