LEARNING OUTCOMES
On successful completion of ANY studio course, you will be able to:
- identify your most important individual learning goals
- distinguish important milestones in your working process
- document your working process
- present and defend your creative choices and design decisions
- discuss and debate the work of others, and give constructive feedback
In addition, on successful completion of Studio: Type & Written Language course, you will be able to:
- consider the ways in which systems of writing are, have been and continue to be designed
- articulate the potential need for new typefaces or typographic devices
- understand and analyse how the form of written language functions as a conceptual tool as well as a graphic one
- review and compare how typefaces and other typographic inventions might be published and distributed in contemporary contexts
Credits: 12
Schedule: 01.03.2022 - 06.05.2022
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Arja Karhumaa, Rupesh Vyas
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
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
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General description for VCD Studios
The studio course is where you dedicate time and space for an investigative communication design project either individually or in a group. The thematics of the course may vary yearly, and activities can range from autonomous projects to experimental collaboration with an organisation, company, or community. Your task is to plan and execute a practice-based design/research project where learning goals are set both by you individually as well as on a common trajectory with your studio group. Background research in both theory and praxis as well as documentation are an important part of the process. Individual feedback sessions, milestone presentations, peer discussions and readings provide structure and support for your work.
The four parallel studio courses share joint lectures as well as work-in-progress clinics out of which you can choose those which provides best support to your concept and execution. The final results of all the studio courses are presented in a joint exhibition/installation.
Studio: Type & Written Language
This course allows you to examine writing and any of its properties outside the meaning of a text. This may include, for example, the systematic, performative, political, spiritual, or generative aspects of writing. Departing from an investigation of written language, the course expands the scope of potential design projects from typefaces into entire writing systems, as well as the tools and surfaces used to produce them.
In practical terms, you embark on a practice-based or artistic research project, the outcome of which could be, for example, a new typeface, an imaginary writing system, a self-generating encyclopaedia, or an interactive performance. Individual projects are supported by workshops, lectures and tutorials. Through developing your own project, you strengthen your understanding of the spectrum of typographic convention and invention, and gain precision in using written language as a visual means of expression.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
The assessment is a synthesis of your design process, required milestones submitted on time, and the final outcome of the design project. Successful completion of this requires minimum 80 % attendance.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
12 ECTS = 324 h, of which
- 27 h joint lectures shared by all studios
- 90 h studio teaching
- 39 h working independently OR in joint clinics according to need
- 168 h independent work
DETAILS
Study Material
valid for whole curriculum period:
Study materials will be provided in the beginning of the course.
Substitutes for Courses
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Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals
4 Quality Education
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
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Teaching Period:
2020-2021 Spring IV-V
2021-2022 Spring IV-V
Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=DOM-E2219
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
Visual Communication Design major alternative studies. VCD major and exchange students are prioritised. For students from other MA programmes, see prerequisites.