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

Through a creative project, the student will become familiar with construction techniques using wood, metal, and other materials. The student will be confident in using wood working and metal working machines.

Credits: 6

Schedule: 26.02.2024 - 15.03.2024

Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):

Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Jukka Lehtinen, Denise Ziegler

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

Opettaja / Teacher

Jukka Lehtinen


Vastuuopettaja /  responsable teacher

Denise Ziegler


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:

    Students will be introduced to wood materials, hand tools and wood working machines, and shown how to use them safely. Students will be introduced to metal working, in particular construction techniques using welding and other power tools and methods. Students will create a sculpture combining wood, metal and other materials using construction techniques.

  • applies in this implementation

    Tehtävä / Assignment

    • Tunne / Emotion 

      Kuvataiteessa on hyvin tavallista käsikirjoittaa teos ennen sen toteuttamista, tai kenties jälkeenpäin vain halutaan antaa sellainen vaikutelma. Yleisesti odotetaan, että taiteilija antaa teokselleen myös kirjallisen merkityksen. Tällä kurssilla tehtävässä taideteoksessa toivon teidän pyrkivän aluksi antamaan visuaalisille mielikuville ylivallan selittämisen kustannuksella. Taideteos on ehkä aina tekijänsä mielen jatke - kuva voi tehdä kätketyn tiedostamattoman näkyväksi, ja kun se kerran on tullut näkyväksi, on siitä helpompaa sen jälkeen puhua! 

      Ota teoksesi lähtökohdaksi jokin tunne. Sen ei tarvitse edes olla tunnistettavissa miksikään tietyksi tunteeksi, kuten onni, viha, häpeä tai ilo, vaan se voi myös olla jokin vielä määrittelemättömäksi jäänyt tunne, jonka läsnäolon havaitset.  Tehtävänä on tehdä tuo tunne näkyväksi, antaa sille fyysinen olomuoto.

      Osana näyttelyä järjestämme näyttelyn ajalla pe15.3.–ke 27.3. 2024

      It is usual to make a script for the art work before one start working. Or perhaps it is just worthwhile afterwards to give such an impression. The artist is commonly expected to give a description of the art work. On this course I hope you let your visual imagination dominate your impulses to explain the art work. However, an artwork is perhaps always an extension to the artist’s mind and it makes the hidden unconscious visible and once it is visible then it is easier to talk about it!

      Take one emotion a starting point to your art work. It doesn’t need to be any specified emotion such as happiness, hatred, shame or joy. It can be still an unspecified emotion which you recognize to be present. Make it visible, give it a physical shape.

              Part of the course  there is an exhibition  Fri 15.3.–Wed  27.3. 2024


Assessment Methods and Criteria
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Individual and small group discussion and critique. Active participation in classwork. Successful completion of own project.

  • applies in this implementation

    • Evaluation is based on

      • the personal development in the techniques  taking into account the starting level of the student
      • ability to express ones ideas and emotion in the art work
      • activity on the course

Workload
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    3 weeks intensive course. Students are expected to be present during all contact teaching (105 hrs), as well as to work independently (57 hrs) in the workshops on other days.

  • applies in this implementation

    3 weeks intensive course 26.02.2024 - 15.03.2022. Students are expected to be present during all contact teaching (76 hrs), as well as to work independently in the workshops on other days.The workload is 7 hours each day 9.15-17.00.  Students should be present minimum 80 % to pass the course.

DETAILS

Substitutes for Courses
Prerequisites

FURTHER INFORMATION

Further Information
  • valid for whole curriculum period:

    Teaching Language : English

    Teaching Period : 2022-2023 Spring IV
    2023-2024 Spring IV

    Enrollment :

    Registration for Courses in 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-in-aalto-arts 

    Minimum amount of participants is 8 students. Maximum amount of participants is 15 students.

Details on the schedule
  • applies in this implementation

    WEEK 1

    Monday 26.2. at  9.15-17.00  Lecture and discussions - Contact teaching all day

    Tuesday 27.2  at 9.15-17.00   Workshop courses (mandatory) 

    Wednesday 28.2  at 9.15-17.00   Workshop courses (mandatory) - Contact teaching (9.15-12)

    Thursday  29.2  at 9.15-17.00   Discussion and work -  Contact teaching all day

    Friday  1.3  at 9.15-17.00   Invidual work -  Contact teaching all day


    WEEK 2

    Monday 4.3. at  9.15-17.00  Invidual work - Contact teaching (13.15-17)

    Tuesday 5.3  at 9.15-17.00   Invidual work

    Wednesday 6.3  at 9.15-17.00   Invidual work - Contact teaching (9.15-12)

    Thursday  7.3  at 9.15-17.00   Invidual work-  Contact teaching all day

    Friday  1.3  at 9.15-17.00 Invidual work -  Contact teaching all day


    WEEK 3

    Monday 11.3. at  9.15-17.00  Invidual work - Contact teaching (13.15-17)

    Tuesday 12.3  at 9.15-17.00   Invidual work

    Wednesday 13.3 at 9.15-17.00   Invidual work - Contact teaching (9.15-17)

    Thursday  14.3  at 9.15-17.00  Building the exhibition-  Contact teaching all day

    Friday  15.3  at 9.15-17.00   Critique  and opening of the exhibition -  Contact teaching all day