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Semester 1

Jewellery & Silversmithing 1A: Materials and the Body (DESI08143)

Subject

Design

College

CAHSS

Credits

20

Normal Year Taken

1

Delivery Session Year

2023/2024

Pre-requisites

**Please see Additional Restrictions below** Please note that this course may incur additional costs for materials and/or field trips.

Course Summary

Students will be introduced to a wide range of creative research and development methods to support the creation of objects informed by and sited on the body. Students will work individually and in groups in response to a series of thematic provocations. This will be supported by contextual lectures, online museum visits and an introduction to the many resources available. Methods of research may include drawing, photography, model making, collage and material experimentation that encourages students to develop individual approaches to visual, material and performative sources, gathering information from both primary and secondary sources. The field of jewellery is not defined by a single material, and the course reflects an open-minded approach to making whilst encouraging discerning choices of materials. Weekly practical sessions will introduce students to thinking through making, and a range of development methods to support you in working between 2 and 3 dimensions within the context of the human body. The aim of this course is to support students development of a dynamic personal process, able to demonstrate fluidity between materials, processes of translation, and responsiveness to a wide range of source materials.

Course Description

Students will be introduced to a wide range of creative research and development methods to support the creation of objects informed by and sited on the body. Students will work individually and in groups in response to a series of thematic provocations. This will be supported by contextual lectures, museum visits and an introduction to the many resources available in the Jewellery Department and ECA Library. Methods of research may include drawing, photography, model making, collage and material experimentation that encourages students to develop individual approaches to visual, material and performative sources, gathering information from both primary and secondary sources. The field of jewellery is not defined by a single material, and the course reflects an open-minded approach to making whilst encouraging discerning choices of materials. Weekly practical studio sessions will introduce students to thinking through making, and a range of development methods to support you in working between 2 and 3 dimensions within the context of the human body. The aim of this course is to support students development of a dynamic personal process, able to demonstrate fluidity between materials, processes of translation, and responsiveness to a wide range of source materials.

Assessment Information

Written Exam 0%, Coursework 100%, Practical Exam 0%

Additional Restrictions

Unless you are nominated on an Art / Design exchange agreement, visiting students are only permitted to enrol in one Art or Design course each, per semester, before the start of the relevant semester’s welcome period – and spaces on each course are limited so cannot be guaranteed for any student. Enrolment in a second course from this group will depend on whether there are still spaces available in the September Welcome Period, and cannot be guaranteed. It is NOT appropriate for students to contact staff within this subject area to ask for an exception to be made; all enquiries to enrol in these courses must be made through the CAHSS Visiting Student Office. This is due to the extremely limited number of spaces available in this very popular subject area.

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