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ARK442 - Design and communication tools
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| Gestaltnings- och kommunikationsverktyg |
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| Syllabus adopted 2019-02-20 by Head of Programme (or corresponding) |
| Owner: MPARC |
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4,5 Credits
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| Grading: TH - Five, Four, Three, Fail |
| Education cycle: Second-cycle |
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Major subject: Architecture, Architecture and Engineering |
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Department: 20 - ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
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Course selection in architecture has a separate process. Please see: https://student.portal.chalmers.se/en/chalmersstudies/courseinformation/CourseSelection/Pages/Selection-courses-studios-MPARC-MPDSD.aspx
Teaching language: English
Application code: 05112
Open for exchange students: Yes
Maximum participants: 26
Only students with the course round in the programme plan
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Written and oral assignments |
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Grading: TH |
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4,5c
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In programs
MPARC ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN DESIGN, MSC PROGR, Year 1 (compulsory elective)
Examiner:
Jonas Lundberg
Go to Course Homepage
Replaces
ARK440
Design and communication tools
Eligibility:
In order to be eligible for a second cycle course the applicant needs to fulfil the general and specific entry requirements of the programme that owns the course. (If the second cycle course is owned by a first cycle programme, second cycle entry requirements apply.)
Exemption from the eligibility requirement:
Applicants enrolled in a programme at Chalmers where the course is included in the study programme are exempted from fulfilling these requirements.
Course specific prerequisites
Qualification for the master programme.
Aim
The course furthers the students' knowledge in architectural and urban design by means of representation, prototypes and/or virtual or material processes. It introduces specific techniques and methods within an accompanying field of research or discourse. It trains the students' ability to design and analyse through an iterative and explorative process.
Learning outcomes (after completion of the course the student should be able to)
Knowledge and understandingDemonstrate a deepened understanding of digital as well as analogue methods, techniques and processes required to handle complex design issues within the field of architecture and urban design.
Conceive, analyze and/or realize architectural ideas through representations, prototypes and/or digital or material processes.
Abilities and skillsMake advanced use of design media (e.g. drawings, diagrams, mapping, geometry, models, mock-ups, video, virtual reality, 3d-scanning, etc.) in order to inform and drive their design process.
Use the above in order to develop a design project of limited scope.
Analyze and communicate their designs through various modes of representation.
Appropriately devise refined types of representation to highlight specific conceptual issues and/or sensory qualities.
Ability of assessment and attitudePromote the value (and joy!) of refined means of representation and prototyping in architecture.
Critically relate their own work in the course to a larger issue or question of representation in architecture, as outlined in the course description.
Content
The work in the seminar develops through explorative studies within a specific range of design media (such as software) and through a design project of limited scope. The course description is formulated so that it targets a current issue or debate on representation in the field of architecture and urban design. Students are required to critically relate their work in the seminar to larger issues outlined in the course description.
Organisation
The course description and its context are introduced in an introductory lecture. Learning is structured around a weekly set of software demonstrations, tutorials and pin-ups. Deliverables are defined at the outset of the course through weekly assignments and through the final review. Students work individually or in teams.
Literature
To be announced in a bibliography in each course description.
Examination including compulsory elements
Student projects will be presented verbally according to requirements (e.g. drawings, models, media, text) outlined in the course description and assessed in a final review with invited guests at Chalmers Department of Architecture. Each student project is further reviewed after submission. A minimum of 80% active attendance / participation in lectures, pin-ups, demos and visits is required in order to pass the course.