LEARNING OUTCOMES
Course has varying content and the learning outcomes are specified for each study event and align with programme learning outcomes. Please see MyCourses page for more detailed information
Credits: 3
Schedule: 17.04.2023 - 21.04.2023
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Tarja Nieminen, Arja Karhumaa
Contact information for the course (applies in this implementation):
Tarja Nieminen
Lecturer
VCD
Art & Media
Workshop coordinator
tarja.nieminen(at)aalto.fi
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CEFR level (valid for whole curriculum period):
Language of instruction and studies (applies in this implementation):
Teaching language: English. Languages of study attainment: Finnish, Swedish, English
CONTENT, ASSESSMENT AND WORKLOAD
Content
valid for whole curriculum period:
Course has varying contents that may change annually. Different workshops/study events are organized by majors of Art & Media.
This Art&Media Programme course is an intensive workshop offered during week 7 of period 4. Several versions of this workshop may be offered and students should be careful in choosing the specific workshop identified in their personal study plans.
applies in this implementation
Visual Storytelling: Deviant DioramasAn optional workshop to be arranged in VCD
during Monday 17 April - Friday 21 April 2023.
The course code is AXM-C0113
The workshop is open for VCD BA and MA students
including the exchange students.
You can register for the workshop via your
primary study plan in Sisu.
The registration time will start on Monday 27 March
and will end on Friday 7 April (midnight).
AXM-C0113
Workshop Description
Visual Storytelling: Deviant Dioramas
Monday 17 April - Friday 21 April 2023
3 ECTS
Teachers:
Eleonora Asparuhova and Adam Cooke
Manchester Metropolitan University’s SODA (School of Digital Arts)
The UK
https://www.schoolofdigitalarts.mmu.ac.uk/
Location:
Otakaari 1: Mac computer room A034 and other facilities
This workshop explores illustrated media and the dynamic storytelling experience of location
in a blended media environment.
The topic of this workshop is Deviant Diorama’s (departing from usual or accepted standards).
The workshop will introduce the basic principles of dynamic storytelling for designers and how
they apply storytelling information in blended media environments (drawing, physical making, AR)
using NFC (Near Field Chips) as a point of interaction.
Concepts such as narrative, experience, interaction and audience perspective will
be explored practically through designing and learning to build a simple prototype.
Students will learn interdisciplinary approaches to designing information for an illustrated
AR environment.
The aim of the workshop is to design and prototype a simple AR experience set in context.
Prior knowledge of illustration and narrative is helpful, but not essential.
Students will work individually.
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Eleonora Asparuhova
Eleonora Asparuhova is Bulgarian 2D Animator & Illustrator focussing on telling visual stories
inspired by and based on cultural heritage, mythology, folklore and fairytales through digital and
traditional techniques.
Holder of the 2013 ‘Art and Humanities Research Council Master Preparation Award’ in Animation
Eleonora completed her Master’s degree in Animation at the University of Salford, UK, in 2015 and
since then she has produced a numerous animated shorts, as a director and animator, including
‘The Orange Song’ (2020), ‘Song of Man’ (2015) and ‘Samovila’(2012), as well as worked with
international and local clients as an animator, artist and illustrator.
So far, Eleonora has launched seven successful illustration exhibitions in the UK and Bulgaria and
is currently a lecturer in 2D Animation at the School of Digital Arts, Manchester Metropolitan University.
Adam Cooke
Adam Cooke is an interdisciplinary design practitioner and researcher, specialising in data literacy.
He works in a range of media including coding, motion design, interaction, game engine technologies
and extended realities. Adam studied Fine Art at University of the Creative Arts, going onto a postgraduate
Masters in Multimedia Arts at Liverpool’s John Moores University before undertaking a PhD looking at
young people’s understanding of data through participation.
Adam is a Lecturer in Tech for Social Good at Manchester Metropolitan University’s SODA (School of Digital Arts)
where he teaches Future Media Production and is a thematic lead for Co-labs Society pathway, a research-led
cross school interdisciplinary ‘living lab’.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Evaluation criteria: participation in teaching, completed assignments. Minimum 80% attendance. See MyCourses for more detailed information on evaluations methods and criteria.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
Participation in an intensive workshop or short course. Minimum 80% attendance.
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
MyCourses page
Teaching Language : English
Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Spring IV
2023-2024 Spring IVEnrollment :
Minimum amount of participants: 8
Maximum amount of participants varies according to the implementation of the course.Registration for Courses: Sisu.
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-at-aalto-arts
- Teacher: Karhumaa Arja
- Teacher: Nieminen Tarja