| Academic Unit: |
Design MA |
| Mode of Delivery: |
Face to face |
| Prerequisites: |
None |
| Language of Instruction: |
English |
| Level of Course Unit: |
Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: |
- - |
| Course Lecturer(s): |
Ayşe EREK |
| Course Objectives: |
This course is aims at examining the practices of exhibition making and its institutions from a historical and critical perspective with modes of theoretical reflection and analysis. |
| Course Contents: |
The seminars will focus on politics and practices of display, exhibition design, modes of exhibition making within institutions as well as outside of institutional structures such as alternative spaces of art in streets, off spaces, spaces initiated by collectives, and diverse modes of new forms of exhibition making engaging in contemporary debates on the historical, social, political, and ecological. The course focuses on providing space for students to develop the critical and creative skills on exhibition making, and it encourages self-research and self-practice. The students will be expected to respond to the topics with the weekly reports and projects by using alternative mediums and methodologies for maintaining a critical attitude. The course includes lectures and seminars by tutors, including visiting curators, artists, designers, critics and gallery and museum professionals and academics. |
| Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO): |
- 1- To be able to critically explore the processes of exhibition making in cultural, historical and socio-political contexts.
- 2- To be able to develop creative perspectives in developing new modes of exhibition making.
- 3- To gain knowledge on the technical aspects of the production of an exhibition such as the knowledge on the technologies and materials of exhibition making.
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| Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: |
The course will be organized as weekly/two weekly seminars and workshops in a variety of topics. The description, reading list, preparation and the assignments for each seminar / workshop will be announced depending on that semester’s research focus. |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preperation |
| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Site visit: Exhibition visit followed by conversation and discussion on the exhibition |
Short report on reading material |
| 3 |
Historical Turns in Exhibition Making |
Short report on reading material |
| 4 |
Contemporary models and categories of Exhibiting Practices |
Short report on reading material |
| 5 |
Studio visit |
Short report on a chosen artist / designer monography |
| 6 |
Technological Tools on Exhibition Making |
Short report on studio visit |
| 7 |
Processing the Material for Exhibition Making |
Presentation |
| 8 |
Thinking Across Relational Geographies through Exhibition Making |
Short report on reading material |
| 9 |
Contemporary Concepts on Exhibition Making |
Short report on reading material |
| 10 |
Exhibition Design: Site specificity and Exhibition Making |
Short report on reading material |
| 11 |
Exhibition Design: Lightning Design |
Short report on reading material |
| 12 |
Exhibition Management: Issues of Budgeting, Art directorship, Publication / Catalogue, Public Relations, Communication Design |
Short report on reading material |
| 13 |
Non-Institutional Forms of Exhibition Making |
Short report on reading material |
| 14 |
Virtual Spaces of Exhibition Making |
Short report on reading material |
At Kadir Has University, a Semester is 14 weeks; The weeks 15 and 16 are reserved for final exams.
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)
| # |
PQ1 |
PQ2 |
PQ3 |
PQ4 |
PQ5 |
PQ6 |
PQ7 |
PQ8 |
PQ9 |
| LO1 |
3 |
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2 |
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| LO2 |
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3 |
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2 |
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| LO3 |
3 |
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2 |
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Contribution: 1 Low, 2 Average, 3 High
