4507940: Design Seminar: Oaxaca, Mexico: Cultural roots

Beschreibung

During an intensive weekly workshop it enables students to further deepen their knowledge of an issue addressed in the project studios and/ or conduct excursions to places and sites addressed in their design project.

Lernergebnisse

Professional competence

• Execute complex defined and self-defined projects of research, development or investigation and identify and implement relevant outcomes.
• Communicate and articulate ideas and information fluently in English language and work comprehensively in visual, oral and written forms.
• Make formal presentations about specialist topics to informed audiences.
• Exercise autonomy and initiative in carrying out set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study.
• Demonstrate ability to manage time and physical resources in relation to set project briefs and self-directed programmes of study as an individual and a group member.
• Show confidence in analysing case studies and the ability to infer principles and motivations.

• Apply a variety of design- and research methods and visualization and production techniques
• Have knowledge of scientific or artistic methods within an interdisciplinary context

• Explain competently, discuss and critique own work through oral presentations, writing or visual communication
• Lead a team and assume responsibility
• Demonstrate the ability to work with other students for assignments, exercises, experiments, presentations etc

• Gain confidence in own role, and the persuasive and accountable manner in which it is expected to be performed.

Lehrmethoden

Intensive seminar week: excursion, exercises, experiment, research, writing, visualising, modelling, presenting, case study, peer feedback

Literatur

Literature lists are issued and updated each semester