DA2S03 - Research & Development:Tools for Change (Creative Encounters & Creative Shifts) 01 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2030 | Version 0

Associated Module Information

Module Code: DA2S03
Module Title: Research & Development:Tools for Change (Creative Encounters & Creative Shifts)
Faculty: Faculty of Business and Creative Industries
Faculty Group: Games and Design
Faculty Sub Group: Design
Module Leader:
Module Team: Deb Jones, Emma Marshman
First Intended Intake: SEP 2024 Final Year of Intake: 2029
Date Closed:
Credit Value: 20 Credit Level: 5
Language: English
Percentage of Module Taught in Welsh: 0
Equivalent Module:
HECOS codes: 100059 - fine art
HECOS Code Weighting: 100

Document Version Information

Version 0
Valid From 01 Sep 2024
Valid To 31 Aug 2030

Module Aims

To evolve, structure, organise and manage a theoretically underpinned, personal line of practical enquiry in a choice of discipline.

To evidence investigations and interrogations of both historical and contemporary sources appropriate to the development of chosen themes for future practice.

To develop an experimental line of investigation that utilises and explores materials, methods and processes appropriate to ideas

Content Summary

This module picks up where Self-Directed 1 and Contextual Studies 2 ends, requiring students to further investigate the ideas and concepts at the heart of their artistic practice through media, processes, and practices.

They will begin by proposing a project with a written statement of intent. They will then spend the duration of the module researching and experimenting their ideas, concepts, media, processes, and practices. Students will be expected to undertake different forms of experimental, self-directed learning, employing different approaches and strategies in the teasing out of themes, interests and concerns.

The outcome is not a resolved body or piece of artwork, but a series of investigations in practical art making. Each element of experimentation and creative outcomes will be critically evaluated in order to discover new pathways in personal artistic practice.

Emphasis is on the process of research and responsive experimental process in the development of ideas and material outcomes, potential being a key issue rather than refinement and resolution at this stage.

Students will further develop their own visual language of representation and making evident in outcomes and journals.

Students are free to follow and combine any pathway/s they choose to create their experimental research and development. They will have access to all equipment, staff specialisms, and materials available but are also invited to add to these, using any means they see as suitable (in agreement with tutors).

The end point of this module will be the discovery of personal visual language, the conceptual specialism, and readiness to produce resolved works for Self-Directed 2.

Learning and Teaching Methods

Activity Type Hours
Lecture 6
Seminars 10
Tutorials 4
Project Supervision 10
Supervised Time in Studio/Workshop 6
Independent Study 86
Directed Study (including online independent learning) 76
Problem/Challenge based learning?? 2
Total Hours Selected 200

Learning Outcomes

# Learning Outcome
LO1 Research, synthesise, and critique knowledge, underlying concepts, and principles of creative visual practice and theory both within and outside the context in which they were first studied
LO2 Analyse own and others’ practical and intellectual practices with a global focus and apply learning to the development of new understanding and ways of working.

Module Requisites

Code Title Requisite Type
MOD013625 Skills Development: Learning Rules and Breaking Rules pre-requisite
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Assessment Criteria

Assessment Category Assessment Type Description Duration Word Count Weight (%) Best of? Pass Mark
Asynchronous Assessment Project Output 1 Assessment of completed coursework in research and development complete with visual journal 0 N/A 80 No 20
Asynchronous Assessment Presentation (Asynchronous) 1 Presentation of research project and outcome to peers and lecturer 10 N/A 20 No 40

Assessment Matrix

Assessment Type Learning Outcomes
LO1 LO2
Project Output 1
Presentation (Asynchronous) 1

Reading List

Demos, T. J., Scott, E. E., & Banerjee, S. (Eds.) (2022) The Routledge Companion to Contemporary Art, Visual Culture, and Climate Change (Routledge Art History and Visual Studies Companions) London & New York: Routledge.

Earle, J., Goodall, H., & Katz, J. (Eds.) (2022) Radical Clay: Contemporary Women Artists from Japan. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago.

Elliott, D. (2021) Art & Trousers: Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary Asian Art. Singapore: NUS Press.

Fanning, L., Akbarnia, L., Gilchrist, S., Heartney, E., & Jacob, M. J. (2018) Encountering the Spiritual in Contemporary Art.

Jiehong, J. (2021) The Art of Contemporary China (World of Art). London: Thames & Hudson.

Overhoff Ferreira, C. (2019) Decolonial Introduction to the Theory, History and Criticism of the Arts. Morrisville: lulu [sic].

Paul, C. (2023) Digital Art: World of Art. London: Thames & Hudson.

Paul, C. (2022) A Companion to Digital Art. Chichester: Wiley.

Robertson, J., McDaniel, C., & Contreras-Koterbay, S. (2021) Themes of Contemporary Art: Visual Art After 1980. Oxford: OUP.

Weibel, P. (2021) Negative Space: Trajectories of Sculpture in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Massachusetts: MIT.