UWAS-C001102 - UWAS Project, Embodied Knowledge Workshop, 4.11.2021-16.12.2021

Self enrolment
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

'UWAS Project' courses offer students the opportunity to get involved in transdisciplinary art or design based projects. The students learn about the practicalities of transdisciplinary collaboration as well as art and design based methods in project work.

Credits: 5

Schedule: 04.11.2021 - 16.12.2021

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Maria Villa Largacha, Tommi Ollikainen, Verna Kuusniemi

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

María Villa Largacha 

maria.villalargacha@aalto.fi

Tommi Ollikainen

tommituurenpoika@gmail.com


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:

    Varies depending on the teacher.

  • applies in this implementation

    Explore the role of the body in creating knowledge, practice and personal experience: experiential embodied learning is a form of research and somatic experimentation may shape varied disciplinary practices. This workshop hopes to promote a fully-fleshed awareness and discuss how our body affects our thoughts, our actions and interactions with communities. The binaries of intellect-emotion, nature-culture, spontaneity-technique, freedom-conditioning will be examined theoretically end empirically.


Assessment Methods and Criteria

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Regular attendance required. Passing the course requires attending 80% of the lessons.

  • applies in this implementation

    The assessment of this course is pass/fail. To receive the 3 ECTS, students are expected to:

    Students will participate in contact sessions for collective and personal exercises (minimum attendance 80%, or 6 sessions), do independent work to prepare readings and little experiments before each session, and develop learning diaries during and outside the workshop time. Based on the experiments and the learning diary, they produce a small project or individual experiment and submit a written reflection at the end to the workshop.

Workload

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Varies depending on the teacher.

  • applies in this implementation

    Total: 81h, of which 

    Lecture and workshop practice: 21h

    Individual work (class preparation, learning diary, tasks and reflections): 40h

    Final assignment development: 20h


DETAILS

Study Material

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Varies depending on the teacher.

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites
SDG: Sustainable Development Goals

    16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions

    17 Partnerships for the Goals

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information

  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    UWAS course selection criteria: Registration order is not the primary selection criteria for this course. In order to ensure that students from different programs and schools of Aalto University may take UWAS courses, the selection is also based on the variety of students' disciplines. Master's students are also welcome.

    Minimum amount of students: 7

    Teaching Period:

    2020-2021 Autumn I-Spring V

    2021-2022 Autumn I-Spring V

    Course Homepage: https://mycourses.aalto.fi/course/search.php?search=UWAS-C001102

    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

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  • applies in this implementation

    Selection of participants

    UWAS courses do not have prerequisites and students are selected considering the diversity of backgrounds and registration order is also taken into account, so everyone across Aalto schools has the same chance to get in.

    Considering the limited capacity of campus under pandemic restrictions, we don’t have many spaces in the workshop. We will invite all registered students to submit a motivation letter in an online form. The final selection of participants will be based on that.




Details on the schedule

  • applies in this implementation

    The workshop will take place on campus.

Rules of Conduct - Students´ Rights and Responsibilities (in force from 1 August 2020)

Aalto University Code of Academic Integrity and Handling Violations Thereof