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First Year - Autumn 2011

 

All First Year students are required to undertake FOUR Media Studies Courses (two from Autumn and two from Winter Term).  The courses result in practical submissions both of which must be passed in order to complete the Media Studies submission requirement (MS1). 

 

First Year students will meet with the Media Studies Course Tutors on   Friday 30th September at 12.30pm in the First Year Studio Space to discuss the courses on offer.  Registration for courses will take place online the same day, and the classes will commence on Tuesday 5th October.  Attendance to all classes is compulsory.

 

Registration for Winter Term Courses will take place at the beginning of the Winter Term and students will be reminded of the process via the Events List.

Peripheral Landscapes

  • Sue Barr

  • 36 Bedford Square-
    North Jury Room

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

Taking inspiration from the work of legendary American landscape photographer Robert Adams, this year we will exploring landscape photography in suburbia. Instead of photographing iconic architecture within the city centre we will be working at the periphery of the city, where the landscape is more subtle and reveals its forms more quietly.

Translation Object to Drawing

  • Shin Egashira

  • 33 Bedford Square-
    First Floor Back

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

Is there any difference between means of representation and that of designing? The course will examine close link between procedures in representing and making of space, by translating an object into various form of drawings as well as interpreting a set of drawings into various patterns in models. Topics include: section / extraction and subtraction, layering and projection / exploded axonometric, choreography / three dimensional trace and diagram, drawing relationships between objects and drawings / unmaking objects by drawing.

Light Moments

  • Elif Erdine

  • 32 Bedford Square-
    Second Floor Back

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

The course will bring together different methods of algorithmic modeling and rapid prototyping in order to design and fabricate a one-to-one scale lighting element for interior environments. Students will be introduced to the principles of parametric tools using Rhinoceros as the digital platform, where they will be producing a range of experimental design options depending on specific rules.

Life Drawing for Architects

  • Trevor Flynn

  • 33 Bedford Square-
    Ground Floor Back

  • Tuesdays 1-4pm

The figure will be used as a departure point as we work through several exercises that enable us to study tone, mass, line, simple underlying structures, in a range of drawing media and in short and longer poses from male and female models. We will also explore concept sketches, viewpoint, biomorphic improvisations and remind ourselves of the Matisse maxim " exactitude isn't truth.

Information Design and Presentation: Analogue to Digital

  • Heather Lyons

  • 39 Bedford Square-
    First Floor Front

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

This course will teach you techniques for clear and meaningful visual communication. The autumn term will focus on taking information from the analogue world and digitizing it, creating infographics and investigating mapping strategies. To support our work, we will spend a portion of each session looking at different toolsets and devices from typography to colour, iconography, layout techniques and graphing and mapping tools.

Materiality of Colour

  • Antoni Malinowski

  • 36 Bedford Square-
    Rear Second Presentation

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

The course focuses on the potential of the subtractive colour in creating /manipulating space.  In a series of workshops students will develop sensitivity to the use of colour and tone in relation to the dynamics of space and movement.

Video: First Year

  • Joel Newman

  • 36 Bedford Square-
    South Jury Room

  • Tuesdays 2-5pm

In these sessions we will make a 1500 frame animation using video technology. That’s 1 minute in real time. After looking at examples of animated work will we embark on an exploration of techniques and methods. No techniques are excluded but students must create their own soundtracks.

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