2024/25 Undergraduate Module Catalogue

DESN2747 Collage Culture

20 Credits Class Size: 29

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

Taught: Semester 2 (Jan to Jun) View Timetable

Year running 2024/25

Module replaces

DESN 2705 Cutting edge: Collage a reconfiguring

This module is not approved as a discovery module

Module summary

The module provides students with opportunities to consider: why today cut and paste skills are becoming a primary practice? How adaptation and appropriation as a creative position can offer possibilities for innovative approaches in visual arts? In what way Collage employs the formal and conceptual power of juxtaposing found cultural material to formulate social and political commentaries, Surrealist fantasies and personal confessions?

Objectives

This module focuses on Collage as a method for interdisciplinary visual research in art and design. It aims to identify the margins of contemporary Collage practice and visual thinking, and how its practice and concepts merge in overlapping art and design systems.

Learning outcomes

On completion of this module, students will provide evidence of being able to:
1. Review Collage methods (visually and textually) to express informed strategies for development that promote refinement and selectivity, of marrying exploratory approaches with useful visual research.
2. Introduce meaning and significance of context as a critical factor in the making of individual, distinctive practical outcomes.
3. Critically examine and execute the research planning that precedes final portfolio work.
4. Critically evaluate all practical work reflecting upon visual/expressive/intellectual content and context .

Skills outcomes

Students will:
- expand their skills and knowledge of Collage methods and application in creative thinking and visual research.
- be encouraged to direct their research, critical thinking and create an individual approach to Collage practice and build their confidence and responsibility for the creative and conceptual direction of personal visual outcomes.

Syllabus

Through a series of seminars, practicals and discussions, students will be encouraged:
To explore changes in attitudes and approaches of contemporary notions of Collage, assemblage, appropriation and cut and paste techniques.
To conduct individual and independent research of diverse Collage methods and formulate relevant and distinctive outcomes.
To apply critical methods, tools and concepts used by artists and designers and explore a broad range of Collage material, discussion, and practice historically and contextually.

Teaching Methods

Private study

80 hours - research, planning, concluding practical work.
25 hours - research and develop a proposal for a project.
25 hours – organising, preparing and developing material for the report
50 hours - progressing and finalise written material for the critical report.

Opportunities for Formative Feedback

• Students’ practical work will be seen by their tutor during workshop weeks and have the opportunity for quick informal guidance.
• Students will have a formal one to one tutorial with verbal feedback on their portfolio development and progression.
• Group discussion and peer feedback during seminars.

Methods of Assessment

Normally resits will be assessed by the same methodology as the first attempt, unless otherwise stated

Reading List

The reading list is available from the Library website

Last updated: 21/10/2024

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