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School of Art and Design · ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
In this course students will work closely with Canberra-based, national or international institutions to devise and deliver a public program. By engaging directly with cultural industry leaders, students will learn how concepts such as audience, community and place-making are configured differently depending on the institutional context. The public program – be it a workshop, community project, participatory artwork or site-specific engagement – becomes a practice-led means to navigate ranging objectives in the larger arts and culture ecology. Contributing their existing skills, students will learn to problem solve and evaluate their methods as individual practitioners and collaborative producers. Students may complete this course twice for a maximum credit value of 12 units, provided they enrol in a different topic in each instance/semester. Please note that the course content, assessment structure, partner institutions and reading list will change depending on the topic and the expertise of the lecturer convening the course. Please refer to the class summary for the specific term in which you wish to enrol for a detailed description. Topics may include, but are not limited to, the following: - Canberra Communities: placemaking & cultural development - Mt Stromlo Canberra Enlighten Project Run in intensive mode, this project enables students to produce work for Canberra’s Enlighten Festival, for public premiere at Mount Stromlo Observatory in February 2025. The project offers the opportunity to explore the expressive potential of large-scale digital projections onto public architecture, taking into consideration the unique qualities of the Mount Stromlo, the history of Canberra Enlighten, and the staging of large scale cultural events/public art. Open to students working across all mediums and forms, the project offers the opportunity to extend your practice by exploring the expressive possibilities of the moving image in relation to traditional media.
Public Project development
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Public Project delivery
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3
Critical Reflection
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4
Semester delivery 130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 12 weeks consisting of lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice, reading and writing. Intensive delivery 130 hours of total student learning time made up from: a) 48 hours of contact over 3 weeks comprising lectures, tutorials, critiques and supervised studio practice; and b) 82 hours of independent studio practice and contextual research (reading and writing). Work Integrated Learning Projects Field trips to local institutions, working on a project with a brief, liasing with an institution and the possibility of either running a real-life public program or simulating it with a peer group Other Information School of Art & Design studio courses have a limited enrolment capacity. Students are advised to enrol as early as possible to maximise the opportunity of securing a place.
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