Course Details
Course Information Package
Course Unit Title | VISUAL ARTS IN PUBLIC SPACE | ||||||||
Course Unit Code | APXE28 | ||||||||
Course Unit Details | Int.M. Architectural Engineering (Architectural Electives) - BA Architecture (Architectural Electives) - | ||||||||
Number of ECTS credits allocated | 3 | ||||||||
Learning Outcomes of the course unit | By the end of the course, the students should be able to:
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Mode of Delivery | Face-to-face | ||||||||
Prerequisites | NONE | Co-requisites | NONE | ||||||
Recommended optional program components | To be assigned according to the interest of each individual student | ||||||||
Course Contents | - City and Urban Interventions - Architecture and the City: Parallel Aspects - Urban Space and Points of Interest - Contemporary Planners Suggestions - Visual Interventions in Public Spaces | ||||||||
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods | This course focuses on how Public Art, Graffiti and Urban Interventions have an important cultural value to a forever developing city. Urban environments with a strong public art expression give communities a stronger sense of place and identity. Students will develop an understanding of the fundamental elements which help us look at and observe contemporary art. This foundation will then be used in order to further analyse the content and intentions of International artists’ work that contribute to a local cultural sense of identity. Students will look into contemporary concepts of art in public space, such as interventions and guerrilla art, and learn how art has the potential to transform our everyday perception of our life, as taking art from a gallery context into the public can be challenging and thought provoking, yet at the same time playful and meaningful. As part of the course, participants will explore Frederick campus for its artistic potential, and complete a series of site-specific interventions using spatial concepts, methodologies, techniques and materials available. Most likely the interventions will be ephemeral only, yet the effect and memory they create for the passing audience will be longer lasting. The interventions will also encourage direct interaction with and feedback from the audience, thus provide participants opportunities to very actively get involved with their daily community. | ||||||||
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Language of instruction | Greek | ||||||||
Work placement(s) | NO |