Syllabus

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The workshop deepens and strengthens the students' personal approach, visual thinking, and technical skills.The learning outcomes vary and are related to each workshop and they will be described in detail in the course description of each study event.

On a successful completion of the course, students

- have learned and are able to present & share ideas, skills and practices related to the working processes studied in the workshop

- are able to apply their new skills and practices to their own work

- can contextualize the methodological approach of the workshop into the wider field of contemporary photography and dialogically assess their own practice in that frame.

 

Credits: 9

Schedule: 22.04.2022 - 25.05.2022

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Heli Rekula

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

heli.rekula@aalto.fi

hanna.e.timonen@aalto.fi

markus.ahonen@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:

  Personal work and group work in the guidance of the teacher of the workshop.

• applies in this implementation

  The six-week process workshop takes the materiality of (photographic) art production under scrutiny. This workshop seeks to call forth discussions about materiality in art making, the possibilities for sustainable art production and to consider topics such as definitions of value. 

  The course aims to inspire experimental ways of making, to emphasize process and production as a tool and to grow understanding about the actuality of an art object. We will dig into our own archives, work with materials, plans and ideas left aside or disregarded for one reason or another.  We will circulate ideas and components, taking this as our method and practice. We aim to use found, collected or borrowed materials. We shall study the premises of Väre and around: the workshops, recycling areas and bins. What is excess to others might turn out to be your treasure.  

  Questions to be discussed and practiced during the course are: How to take leftover in use and how to use circulation and recycling as theme, source, material, and method. And, is sustainable art production possible?

  The course comprises earlier Mixed Media workshop in its agenda. In the Printlab of Väre, together with the second teacher of the course Markus Ahonen, we can experiment with inkjet printing on any material and technique: painting or printmaking, paper, fabric, wood, metal or even a slice of toast.

  Course includes lectures, group mentoring, hands on working at Printlab and individual working with custom-made printers in classrooms. Course is scheduled to take place on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

  
  

Assessment Methods and Criteria

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Typical ways of working are lectures, group discussions and hands-on work and practice. Methods vary from workshop to workshop.

• applies in this implementation

  To complete the course requires 80% presence and completing course assignments.

Workload

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  See details of the contact hours and other ways of working from the course description of each workshop.

DETAILS

Study Material

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Teacher will provide in the beginning of the course.

Substitutes for Courses

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Substitutes for Courses

Prerequisites

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

• valid for whole curriculum period:

  Process Workshop is a course with varying content. Course periods and content varies yearly.

  Teaching Period:

  2020-2021

  (2021, 2022) - No teaching

  Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=DOM-E305402

  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 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.

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