052-0725-22L ACTION! On the Real City: Drawing With Light - Daylight and the Moving Image

Semester	Autumn Semester 2022
Lecturers	H. Klumpner, C. E. Papanicolaou
Periodicity	every semester recurring course
Language of instruction	English

Courses

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Lecturers

052-0725-22 U

ACTION! On the Real City: Drawing With Light - Daylight and the Moving Image

Permission from lecturers required for all students.
No course 24.10. (seminar week) and in the last two semester weeks (final critiques).

2 hrs

Mon

09:45-11:30

ONA E 16 »

H. Klumpner, C. E. Papanicolaou

Catalogue data

Abstract

The word photography combines Greek roots phōtos, "light," and graphé, "represent by drawing lines". Photography is essentially "drawing with light."

We will encourage reflections on this topic by developing new forms of urban literacy integrating ethnographic research methods, filmmaking and other forms of digital media.

Learning objective

Through a combination of practical exercises in video and audio techniques in parallel with the study of seminal observation-driven texts, this course aims to equip students with the basic tools and core principles to create short but complex portraits of urban space. This semester, the focus falls the the topic of daylight, in all of the ways in which it affects everday life - both indoors, outdoors, and everything in between.

This approach will be applied to experiments in filmmaking and photography. Through various audiovisual experiments, students will collectively speculate on ways to marry the various forms of research methods that traditionally do not intersect, creating mosaics of experimental research forms.

Using widely available recording tools and editing software, students will turn their fieldwork into short video or audio works of about 3-5 minutes.

Content

The course will compose of lectures, practical crash courses in media use and storytelling, and fieldwork sessions. The course will be a laboratory in the creation of short media works that aim to inform the architectural design process, working between the city and the studio in ONA. Students will be expected to complete all required work within the hours that the elective meets, with few requirements outside of the class hours.

Literature

Seminal texts include:

- ‘Cross-Cultural Filmmaking’ (Barbash, Castaing-Taylor)
- ‘Acoustic Territories’ (LaBelle)
- 'Ethnography: Principles in Practice' (Hammersley, Atkinson)
- 'Thick Description: Toward an Interpretative Theory of Culture (Geertz)

Competencies

Subject-specific Competencies	Concepts and Theories	assessed
	Techniques and Technologies	assessed
Method-specific Competencies	Analytical Competencies	assessed
	Decision-making	assessed
	Media and Digital Technologies	assessed
	Problem-solving	assessed
Social Competencies	Communication	assessed
	Cooperation and Teamwork	assessed
	Negotiation	assessed
Personal Competencies	Adaptability and Flexibility	assessed
	Creative Thinking	assessed
	Critical Thinking	assessed
	Self-awareness and Self-reflection	assessed
	Self-direction and Self-management	assessed

Performance assessment

Performance assessment information (valid until the course unit is held again)
Performance assessment as a semester course
ECTS credits	2 credits
Examiners	H. Klumpner, C. E. Papanicolaou
Type	ungraded semester performance
Language of examination	English
Repetition	Repetition only possible after re-enrolling for the course unit.

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Restrictions

General

: Special students and auditors need a special permission from the lecturers
Permission from lecturers required for all students

Offered in

Programme	Section	Type
Architecture Bachelor	Landscape and Urban Studies	W