This module is not currently running in 2024 to 2025.
Through predominantly practice, supported by lecture, discussion and visits of case studies this module examines space as site, place and environment.
The transformation of space is a fundamental aspect of the creation of events and experiences; the ability to make space memorable, distinctive and fit for purpose (functional) is a key skill for the event designer. Students will learn how to read space, understand how space is experienced, and written. They will consider the role of the audience in these experiences - whether passive or active.
Students will be introduced to the debates and theories around installation practice, particularly site specific practice and the widely different contexts in which such work can be employed. Students will then learn some important strategies for investigating site specificity through contextual analysis, before finally creating your own installation or environment (individual or small group projects may be possible). The theme and context of the environment will be negotiated with the tutor and may be designed for one of a number of purposes depending upon students’ developing interests; however, the project will foreground the transformation, describing and experiencing of space.
Students will continue to develop their own interests in form, technique and content. Wherever possible, within the objectives of the module, this project will allow students to develop those interests and specialisms.
There will normally be 4 contact hours per week, which will typically include a workshop studio session and a lecture / seminar session. In addition, students must invest additional hours on self-directed research and study both in groups and individually. Students are thus expected to contribute a further 16 hours per week, and some time over the winter vacation.
To achieve the learning outcomes successfully, students will need to invest 300 hours in total on this module.
Assessment will be by 100% coursework, consisting of three elements.
Portfolio of Writing consisting of two 1500 word essays. 15% each, 30% overall (Learning Outcomes 11.2-5, 11.7, and 12.3-6).
Major Project – the creation and presentation of an installation or intervention, including portfolio of developmental evidence. 50% (Learning outcomes 11.1-3, 11.5-7, 12.1-4 and 12.6).
Process, Participation and Development in lectures, seminars and workshops. 20% (Learning outcomes 11.2, 11.5-6, 12.2-3 and 12.6).
• Bishop, C. (2005), Installation Art – A Critical History, London: Tate Publishing.
• Suderburg, E. (2000), Site, Space, Intervention- Situating Installation Art – Chapter 2, Miwon Kwon, One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificy, London: University of Minnesota Press.
• Colli, S. and Perrone, R. (2003), Space – Identity – Company: Ephemeral Architecture and Corporate Events, Barcelona: Gustavo Gili.
• Kaye, N. (2000), Site Specific Art, London: Routledge.
• De Oliveira, N. (1994), Installation Art, London: T&H.
• De Oliveira, N. (2004), Installation Art in the New Millennium, London: T&H.
• Artangel (2002), Off Limits – 40 Artangel Projects, London, Merrell.
• Goldberg, R. (2004), Performance – Live Art since the 60s, London: Thames & Hudson.
• Cresswell, T. (2004), Place; a short introduction, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
See the library reading list for this module (Medway)
The intended subject specific learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will:
1) Have created an installation, intervention or event space – if working in teams you they will take responsibility for a specific aspect of your their chosen project.
2) Be able to employ creative strategies in order to create effective installations or interventions specific to a particular place and brief, and assess the efficacy of your their choices.
3) Understand the importance of space / place / environment in the making and reading of events and experiences – context.
4) Have become familiar with a number of installations or environments created by events companies/ artists, and understand the history, theory and critical reception of those examples.
5) Be aware of practical and logistical requirements in preparing spaces/sites for durational or experiential events.
6) Have developed additional technical and creative skills as required by the project.
7) Have built upon practical and creative learning from previous modules, becoming more confident and accomplished in the creative process and starting to define your their own specialism within event production.
The intended generic learning outcomes
On successful completion of this module, students will:
1) Have solved problems including design problems and logistical problems, and have anticipated problems.
2) Have managed physical resources (space, equipment) and resources of time (yourstheirs, your their colleagues' and support staff's).
3) Have communicated complex ideas verbally and visually.
4) Have used numbers to determine accurate measuementsmeasurements, areas and volume; converted numerical information between different units; and understood scale.
5) Have discussed, analysed and reflected on your their own learning.
6) Have obtained independent project management skills such as working towards deadlines, communicating and collaborating with others.
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