Art & Design (Summer School) module (SS03018)

Art and Design 1 helps support your understanding of art and design practice through a creative project based approach

Module code
SS03018
Semester
Runs during the summer
School
School of Art and Design
Discipline
Art and Design Office

From 2025 we are planning to teach Art & Design 1 and Art & Design 2 as a single module

This module compliments Art and Design 2 and allows you to develop your skills. This is a project-based approach to introducing art and design practice. A series of tasks will be set revolving around an exciting common theme, which will allow you to respond through a range of creative approaches.

This module offers a project-based approach to understanding art and design practice. You will carry out a series of tasks revolving around an exciting common theme. This allows you to be creative when completing your work.

This module will introduce you to two core aspects of art and design practice. The first is the use of sketchbooks to collate and record research, and develop and document ideas in relation to a project brief. You will be offered an exciting, thematically-based project brief that will be universally applicable to all Access Summer School candidates intending to study at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design (DJCAD).

What you will learn

In this module, you will:

  • undertake and document research
  • utilise various artistic mediums such as drawing, collage, mixed media, photography, etc.
  • create sketchbooks
  • employ digital and analogue creative approaches
  • create 3D works and explore three-dimensional mediums
  • explore line, form, materiality, colours, textures, etc.
  • use visual mapping techniques
  • write artist/designer statements
  • present work visually and verbally
  • engage in creative conversations within tutorials
  • conduct critical analysis and reflection

By the end of this module, you will be able to:

  • understand research methods
  • generate and implement ideas
  • write critical reflections on learning experiences and practices
  • communicate and present your work in written, visual, and oral formats

Assignments / assessment

You will complete a piece of coursework from a specific project brief given to support your learning.

Teaching methods / timetable

  • project launches
  • talks
  • workshops
  • group tutorials
  • self-directed study to develop project work