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On completion of the module students learners will have developed their skills and competencies in:
- Conceptual and critical thinking;
- Judgement;
- Decision making;
- Leadership;
- Working independently and having authority over their own work;
- Assessing, critiquing and, where relevant, assimilating information, inputs and other data into their work;
- Risk taking, processes of reflection and self-assessment of their own work;
- Peer collaboration and associated learning;
- Developing their ideas and work in architecture across a range of methods and associate outputs appropriate to their work;
- Ability to frame a design project / projects with reference to theoretical and applied examples
- Have tested ideas and proposals using spatial, material, and other architectural means;
- Demonstrate building new work on previous work and/or precedent when moving from testing cycle to testing cycle across the semester
- Presentation, communicating and dissemination of their work, offering it for critical, peer and public assessment in order to deepen the understanding of the relevance and impact of their work;
- Strengthen their capacity to act in and through architecture and design.
Key topics that will be addressed include:
- What constitutes an independent project in architecture and how to undertake it;
- An exploration of concepts and methods of research by design;
- The value of research by design in contemporary architecture practice;
- Exploration of how to frame research by design questions;
- Exploration of methodologies for research and testing of architectural research by design;
- How to translate theories / ideas into spatial, material and other architectural means.
- Material culture, making and assembly in architecture
- Climate and architecture
- The conditions of contemporary production and consumption of architecture;
- Curation and exhibition making as a critical tool of architectural research and idea testing and development.
Student Effort Type | Hours |
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Lectures | 5 |
Small Group | 25 |
Studio | 75 |
Project Supervision | 10 |
Specified Learning Activities | 10 |
Autonomous Student Learning | 175 |
Total | 300 |
Not applicable to this module.
Description | Timing | Component Scale | % of Final Grade | ||
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Assignment: TESTING CYCLE 3 | Week 9 | n/a | Graded | Yes | 30 |
Portfolio: 'FOLIO PART 1 | Coursework (End of Trimester) | n/a | Graded | Yes | 10 |
Assignment: TESTING CYCLE 1 | Week 3 | n/a | Graded | Yes | 30 |
Assignment: TESTING CYCLE 2 | Week 6 | n/a | Graded | Yes | 30 |
Resit In | Terminal Exam |
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Spring | No |
• Feedback individually to students, on an activity or draft prior to summative assessment
• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment
• Peer review activities
• Self-assessment activities
- Feedback will be offered to students as work progresses individually and collectively in the form of discussions and as part of the course work. - Following the submission and marking of a formal assignment feedback will be offered to individual students via Brightspace. - A mid-semester discussion on progress on an individual basis will also take place. - Formal feedback on progress will be made at the end of the semester in order to assist with progress into ARCT 41180. This will be a module exit interview with teaching staff with portfolios to reflect on work done and plan for the upcoming modules. - All assessment and feedback is made with reference to the ASSESSMENT RUBRIC for the module which is available on Brightspace.
Name | Role |
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Mr Paul Arnold | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Philip Comerford | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Anna Cooke | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Marcus Donaghy | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Mark Hackett | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Fiona Hughes | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Dr Livia Hurley | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr David Leech | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Samantha Martin | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr James Martin | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Denise Murray | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Ms Ruth O'Herlihy | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Finola O'Kane Crimmins | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Oran O'Siochain | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Assoc Professor Michael Pike | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Professor Nasrin Seraji | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Dougal Sheridan | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Stephen Tierney | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Mr Robert Wightman | Lecturer / Co-Lecturer |
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 | Fri 09:00 - 17:50 |
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | Mon 14:00 - 17:50 |
Seminar | Offering 1 | Week(s) - 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 | Tues 14:00 - 17:50 |