Explorations

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• The major developments in your practice and how practitioners combine skills and technologies to innovate

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Employ effective and informed visual methods of presentation and communication

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Formulate a range of ideas using relevant industry processes and methodologies.

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Experiment and test and explore creative processes with specialist craft and digital tools.

Indicative content for this module includes:

This module builds upon the introduction to technical and craft skills from Part 1 of the programme and extends these within your communities of learning through advanced specialist workshops. The module will also enable you to develop increasingly sophisticated working methods, that facilitate the transition from the more defined parameters of Part one to the independent initiatives expected in the second semester of Part two.

A growing contextual subject knowledge of two communities of learning through lectures and case studies of contemporary practitioners will inform the progression of your work and you will begin to develop a more self-critical, analytical approach to your decision making processes. Alongside the consolidation and extension of skill sets, you will also be encouraged to challenge the established conventions within these communities through experimentation, iterations and innovation.

Increasingly challenging projects will allow you to assemble a portfolio of work that evidences an engagement with interdisciplinary or specialist practice and demonstrates how you integrate digital and craft skills to visually articulate ideas through specialist media.

Teaching and learning methods

Teaching methods include:

• Project Briefings
• Group tutorials and discussions
• One-to-one tutorials
• Critical Reviews
• Lectures
• Seminars
• Creative and technical workshops
• Visual presentations

Learning activities include:

• Research and concept workshops
• Creative and technical workshops
• School resource based learning
• Seminars
• Peer group learning
• Group critiques
• Self-assessments

Resources & Reading list

Textbooks

Jury, David (2008). Reinventing print: Technology and Craft in Typography. London: Bloomsbury.

Heller, Steven (2003). Citizen Designer: Perspectives on Design Responsibility. Allworth Press.

Tufte, Edward (2004). Visual explanations: : Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative. Graphics Press USA.

Formative

This is how we’ll give you feedback as you are learning. It is not a formal test or exam.

Portfolio

• Assessment Type: Formative
• Feedback: Feedback on project brief. You will experience formative feedback during the module in different learning situations, for example: tutorials, crits and written feedback.
• Final Assessment: No
• Group Work: No

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.