Experimental Practice
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Module Aims
Aim 1
Analyse, de-construct and re-construct through practical activities.
Aim 2
Provide the support and environment for you to challenge, expand and contest accepted creative and technical practices.
Aim 3
Test and explore emerging philosophies within your specific practice discipline.
Module Content
This module provides an opportunity for you to continue to experiment with theories and philosophies with the aim of working on ‘live projects’ or starting to focus on a significant component of the project within a defined or identified context.
Experimental Practice gives you the opportunity to build your portfolio of work through enquiry and demonstrate an understanding of where their work might sit culturally within your own chosen discipline. Diversity, Equality and Sustainability are key elements to be considered as well as social, and cultural practice. Special consideration should be made to materials and material limitation to inform the development of your investigation.
The line of enquiry should become a theme that runs through all their projects and experiments to demonstrate how experimentation and research is driving and informing your practice. This can be in the form of one long project or several short projects depending on the discipline. You are expected to consult with their tutors and set yourself goals that will drive your research and practice-based outcomes. The learning agreement will form the framework for these goals.
You are also expected to identify and disseminate your observations, innovations and designs through presentations to your tutors and other students. You are expected to demonstrate you have engaged with emerging issues, theories and philosophies around your discipline and the wider cultural field.
The reflective diary is still a key part and evidences the considered changes throughout your post-graduate journey. At this stage you can use the reflective diary to set yourself goals and conclusions that you wish to achieve by the end of this module.
By the end of this module you should decide to develop your practice to either:
Refine through ‘live’ investigations the constraints of accepted creative industrial practice.
(or)
Develop innovative ideas and practices that challenge accepted creative norms within your chosen specialism.
Learning Outcomes
On successful completion of this module, a student will be able to:
Teaching Methods
This module is centred on experimenting and driving your line of enquiry through practice, research and experimentation. There is more emphasis on the body of work in this module but reflection is still key to developing your practice. Teaching is delivered by specialist staff who will support your research and practical experiments through a holistic approach: tutorials, seminars, group critiques, and presentations. The emphasis is on the expansion of the accepted norms within your subject area reflects the skills required for practice-based research and evidence how this is underpinned by theory.
Assessment Methods
This module is assessed through two coursework.
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