80043 Global Studio: Photography and Situated Media A
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Credit points: 6 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10265 Bachelor of Design Photography
Description
The Photography and Situated Media program acknowledges the importance of building a global perspective within an individual's design practice, as well as networking on an international scale. This global studio subject provides students with the opportunity to immerse themselves in another design and educational context, seek out new professional alliances, and learn from the challenges prompted by different environments and their histories. The subject facilitates experiences such as site visits, study tour collaborations with overseas institutions, and working with local communities in foreign countries to contextualise and extend students' photography and situated media practice.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Constructively engage with the diverse activities that make up the global studio, and to produce innovative responses to this new context |
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| 2. | Work both independently and cooperatively as part of a team in a challenging and unfamiliar international context. |
| 3. | Communicate effectively in diverse studio and professional environments |
| 4. | Position one's own practice within an extended disciplinary and global context |
| 5. | Apply digital and/or analogue techniques and technologies to image-based practice in a new and challenging global context |
| 6. | Demonstrate knowledge of photographic history and theory and to place creative practice within a wider global framework |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Ability to constructively engage with subject learning activities (A.3)
- Ability to work cooperatively and professionally as part of a team, initiate partnerships with others, take a leadership role when required, and constructively contribute to peer learning (C.1)
- Ability to engage in and contribute to studio discussion (C.3)
- Ability to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes (I.3)
- Ability to produce inspirational responses that exemplify integration of learning experiences (I.4)
- Ability to recognise and engage in a diverse range of technical and practical contexts (P.1)
- Ability to apply relevant digital and/or analogue techniques and technologies to image-based practice (P.2)
- Ability to position work within an extended disciplinary context (P.5)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge of photographic history and theory and to place creative practice within a contextual framework (R.4)
Teaching and learning strategies
This studio will incorporate a range of teaching and learning strategies including guided site visits, workshops/seminars and the facilitation of photo studio tasks. Ongoing feedback is provided during all engagements such as site visits, studio discussions and photoshoots. It is therefore imperative that students prepare to attend at least 80% of studio engagements specified in the program.
Field trips / Site Visits
The tour will include visits to design studios, workshops, museums, galleries and exhibitions. This block-mode subject is delivered through a group of site visits and involves self-directed learning. The site visits form the focus for discussion forums that inform individual investigation of sites visited. As well as noting discussion there is an expectation that students draw and photograph aspects of each venue to include in their self-created blog. After site visits students are required to reflect on the knowledge gained from their experienced on site by peer discussion and comparison with other information sources accessible on UTS Online.
Collaborative learning
UTS believes that collaborative peer learning enhances students' understanding of subject areas. Students are encouraged to work in discussion clusters and teams throughout the tour to support each other's learning.
Studio / Practical work / Assessment
Students will undertake a practical engagement with the tour through the creative outcomes specified in the assessment tasks. Critical reflection of all experiences in context is required. See additional handouts for more details. All Assessment briefs are accessible from UTS Online.
Online coursework
A number of online resources are accessible from UTS Online.
Pre-readings and presentations provide a framework for understanding and avenues for expression related to the experiences on the tour. The tour will be supported by a list of recommended readings which will situate the c broader understanding. Online resources assist in the strategic selection of presentation topics and provide support for developing and refining ideas.
Feedback
Because of the intensity of the trip only low-stakes verbal feedback is offered during the study tour. It is the student’s responsibility to record any feedback received during critique sessions and meetings. Written feedback and summative grades are given through ReView.
The subject is designed based on progressive development across its assessment tasks. In this sense it is wise for students to engage with their academic leaders and be aware of the work of other students.
Content (topics)
Subject content varies according to the nature of the context the studio takes place in but generally includes:
- guided site visits that introduce students to key features of the unique local context that the studio takes place in
- seminars and workshops that develop students' understanding of this context and facilitate considered responses to the specific learning environment
- studio tasks, made in response to specific briefs, and developed through iterative teaching and learning processes.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Global studio project 1
| Intent: | This project involves the undertaking of short projects, in response to specific briefs, relevant to the Global Studio A context. The assessment task requires the completion of such projects, as well as critical reflection on their outcomes. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): C.1, C.3, I.4, P.1 and P.2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Global studio project 2
| Intent: | This project involves the further, considered development of projects initiated in task one in the form of a final project. This project is responsive to the global studio context but represents a more developed iteration of what was produced in task one. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): A.3, I.3, P.2, P.5 and R.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Minimum requirements
Students must submit all assessments in order to pass the subject.
Required texts
Essential readings are listed in the program section of the outline. All essential readings are available online at specified addresses or throught he UTS library site and can be accessed by searching the subject code 80043.
Recommended texts
Rexer, Lyle 2013 The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, Aperture, New York City, NY.
Antonini, Marco et al. 2015, Experimental Photography: A Handbook of Techniques, Thames and Hudson, London.