LEARNING OUTCOMES
Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:
1. Express themselves confidently by textual means, visual writing and experimental typography.
2. Recognise the multiplicity of textual practices, their conventions and potentialities.
3. Challenge preconceived ideals of readability, legibility, authorship and originality in writing and typography.
4. Describe theories, concepts and examples of the materiality of language.
5. Consider writing as material for design, and design as material for writing.
Credits: 6
Schedule: 07.01.2025 - 12.02.2025
Teacher in charge (valid for whole curriculum period):
Teacher in charge (applies in this implementation): Arja Karhumaa
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
valid for whole curriculum period:
Focusing on the materiality of language, this course gives visual designers and artists confidence in working with text, and so expands your vocabulary of expression. With a playful and experimental mindset, the course introduces you to a variety of exercises, examples and concepts concerning language, writing and typography from a visual and material perspective.
We explore notions and methods from conceptual and procedural writing, such as textual appropriation, translation, illegible writing, flarf, visual and conceptual poetry, as well as other means of experimental writing both in practice and in theory.
Small class exercises support a more extensive writing assignment and/or project around a loose common theme. At the end of the course, projects are gathered together either in the form of a book or an exhibition.
Assessment Methods and Criteria
valid for whole curriculum period:
Participation in teaching, completed assignments.
Minimum 80% attendance.
Your grade will be determined by your
- collaboration
- discussion
- course project
- class exercises
- keeping on schedule
See MyCourses for more detailed information on evaluations methods and criteria.
Workload
valid for whole curriculum period:
6 ECTS ≈ 162h
Contact Teaching: 60h
Independent work: 102hStudy methods by proportion:
Lectures 8h
Groupwork 12h
Workshop and practice-based work 66h
Independent reading and writing 18h
Reflection and thinking 60h
DETAILS
Substitutes for Courses
valid for whole curriculum period:
Prerequisites
valid for whole curriculum period:
FURTHER INFORMATION
Further Information
valid for whole curriculum period:
Teaching Language: English
Teaching Period: 2024-2025 Spring III
2025-2026 Spring IIIRegistration:
The minimum amount of participants 8
The maximum amount of participants 25.
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