ELO-E5028 - Character Design and Virtual Materiality, Lecture, 26.4.2022-13.5.2022

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Please note! Course description is confirmed for two academic years, which means that in general, e.g. Learning outcomes, assessment methods and key content stays unchanged. However, via course syllabus, it is possible to specify or change the course execution in each realization of the course, such as how the contact sessions are organized, assessment methods weighted or materials used.

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The students are able to experiment with combined physical and digital/virtual materials to design characters and costumes.
The students are able to perceive the expressive and dramaturgical potential of building costumes with a combination of analogue/physical and digital/virtual means.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 26.04.2022 - 13.05.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Teemu Määttänen, Sofia Pantouvaki

Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):

Course teacher Sofia Pantouvaki

sofia.pantouvaki@aalto.fi

CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):

Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):

Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: English

CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD

Content

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    This course focuses on experimenting with the combination of physical and virtual means to design multi-layered characters and costumes. Combining digital tools and virtual technology in costume design opens up new possibilities to create an evolving dramaturgy and to mix live digital elements with traditional costume materials. The course develops as an experimental workshop where the questions of virtuality and materiality in the context of costume design are addressed by lectures, presentations, discussions and hands-on work. The aim is to explore in practice how the real meets the virtual and art meets technology through the medium of costume. The students work towards designing and realizing characters and costumes that can change and reshape over time through the combination of analogue materials, virtual technology and moving bodies.

Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Students attendance and active participation in presentations, discussions and teamwork, students development during the course, contribution to supervised and independent exercises, outcome of independent work.


    80% attendance and completed assignments. Motivation and constructive participation.

Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    20% Lectures and presentations (case studies)
    70% Hands-on workshop and independent work
    10% Presentation, Evaluation, feedback

DETAILS

Study Material

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Johnson, M. (2015). The Aesthetics of Embodied Life , in: Alfonsina Scarinzi (ed.) Aesthetics and the Embodied Mind: Beyond Art Theory and the Cartesian Mind-Body Dichotomy. Doordrecht, Heidelberg, New York, London.


    Nimkulrat, Nithikul, Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Pirita, Pantouvaki, Sofia and Nancy de Freitas (eds.) (2016). Experience / Materiality / Articulation , Studies in Material Thinking, vol. 14, https://www.materialthinking.org/volumes/volume-14.


    Pantouvaki, Sofia (2014). Embodied Interactions: Towards an Exploration of the Expressive and Narrative Potential of Performance Costume through Wearable Technologies . Scene, Vol. 2, Issues 1+2, pp. 179-196.


    Pantouvaki, Sofia (ed.) (2015). Critical Costume 2015: New Costume Practices and Performances. Helsinki: Aalto University Publications Series, ART+DESIGN+ARCHITECTURE 4/2015.


    Quinn,

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    5 Gender Equality

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Minimum/maximum group size: 3/12

    The amount of participants is limited. Please see the maximum number of participants in WebOodi.

    Attending the introductory lectures and presentations is compulsory.
    The students will be accepted to the course in the following order:

    Students of costume design major, for whom the course is compulsory/part of HOPS
    Students of costume design major, for whom the course is optional
    Exchange students of costume design
    Minor students of costume design, whose major is production design or scenography
    Minor students of costume design, whose major is another than production design or scenography
    Other students of production design and scenography
    Other students of the department of Film, Television and Scenography
    Other students

    Teaching Period:

    (2020, 2021) - No teaching

    2021-2022 Spring V

    Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=ELO-E5028

    Registration for Courses: Sisu replaces Oodi on 9 August, 2021. Priority order to courses is according to the order of priority decided by the Academic committee for School of Arts, Design and Architecture: https://www.aalto.fi/en/services/registering-to-courses-and-the-order-of-priority-in-aalto-arts

    The order of priority for admitting students to courses at Aalto ARTS 1.1.2018 onwards (approved by The Committee of Arts, Design and Architecture on 10.10.2017)

    The order of priority is as follows:

    1. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have scheduled it for the current academic year in their personal study plan (HOPS);
    2. exchange students for whom the course is a part of his/her officially approved learning agreement and scheduled to be taken during the current semester;
    3. students for whom the course is compulsory for their major/programme and who have not completed it yet;
    4. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and has been scheduled in the student's PSP (HOPS) for the current academic year
    5. students, for whom the course is part of his/her major s or programme s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
    6. students for whom the course is compulsory for their minor;
    7. students, for whom the course is part of his/her minor subject s alternative studies and who have not completed the requisite number of credits for alternative studies yet;
    8. students who have applied for the course through a student mobility scheme (internal mobility within Aalto University, flexible study right (JOO) studies etc.);
    9. other students.

     

    Courses that are intended to be multidisciplinary (e.g. UWAS courses) may apply an order of priority based on the learning outcomes of the course, while bearing in mind the university obligation of enabling students to complete their degrees within the normative duration of study set for the degree. The order of priority does not apply to courses organised by the Centre for General Studies or doctoral courses.

    This decision on the order of priority does not influence the right of the teacher to define prerequisites for the course.

  • applies in this implementation

    The course teachers are Sofia Pantouvaki, Marikki Hakola and Bjarke Aalto.

    More info on Sofia's work can be found here: https://sofiapantouvaki.com/

    More info on Marikki's work can be found here: https://www.kroma.fi/marikkicv/

Details on the schedule

  • applies in this implementation

    Week 17
    Tuesday 26.4. 
    Location: Roihupelto Studio 3, Laippatie 14 00880 Helsinki
    9-12 Marikki Hakola lecture: work examples and inspiration.
    12-13 Lunch
    13-15 Bjarke Aalto's lecture + tour of Studio 3, examples and inspiration
    15-17 Sofia Pantouvaki's lecture: Introduction to the course and the course assignment

    Wednesday 27.4.
    Location: Väre R107
    9-12 Mirages screening and presentation by Marikki Hakola
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Independent work

    Thursday 28.4.
    Location: Roihupelto Studio 3
    9-12 Bjarke Aalto's lecture: Intro to greenscreen
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Independent work, guidance sessions with Marikki Hakola 

    Friday 29.4.
    9-12 Sofia Pantouvaki's lecture: Examples of virtual/physical work in costume design and fashion. ONLINE - ZOOM link: https://aalto.zoom.us/j/65095614174
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Independent work, guidance sessions with Marikki Hakola. Location: Roihupelto Studio 3

    Week 18
    Location: Roihupelto Studio 3
    Monday 2.5.
    9-12 Independent work
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Independent work

    Tuesday 3.5.
    9-12 Marikki Hakola's lecture: Experimental methods
    12-13 Lunch
    13-15 Independent work
    15-17 Costume design feedback on independent projects by Sofia Pantouvaki

    Wednesday 4.5.
    9-12 Independent work
    12-13 Lunch
    13-15 Independent work
    15-17 Halfway feedback on independent projects by Sofia Pantouvaki and Marikki Hakola

    Week 19 
    Location: Roihupelto Studio 3
    Monday 9.5.
    9-12 Marikki Hakola's lecture: How to work with directors and virtual means
    12-13 Lunch
    13-15 Digital material feedback by Marikki Hakola
    15-17 Independent work

    Tuesday 10.5.
    9-17 Independent work

    Wednesday 11.5.
    9-12 Digital material feedback by Marikki Hakola
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Independent work

    Thursday 12.5.
    9-12 Independent work 
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Independent work, guidance sessions with Marikki Hakola 

    Friday 13.5.
    9-12 Demos and documenting
    12-13 Lunch
    13-17 Demos and documenting, guidance sessions with Marikki Hakola

    Week 20
    Monday 16.5.
    Location: Otaniemi campus, classroom TBA
    17-19 Final showing + feedback with Sofia Pantouvaki and Marikki Hakola

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