Level 06
40 Credit Module
Remaking theory, Rethinking Practice
What COP3 is?
A new module introduced in 2013/14
A common module across all degrees at LCA
-Look at last years essays for reference
An academic module, designed to assess your intellectual engagement and theoretical understanding of your creative practice.
An individually driven, synthesised research project with interrelated practical and written elements.
What COP3 isn't?
A Dissertation
A dissertation with a related piece of practical work
An Academic module unrelated to studio concerns
The same on every course
Learning Outcomes
Knowledge and understanding
6A1: Demonstrate and indépendant critical understanding of the aesthetic, cultural, historical, technological, social, political or there other contexts relevant to individual subject disciplines.
6A4: Demonstrate a critical understanding of the synthesis between the theoretical and practical contexts of their own creative concerns
Cognitive Skills
6B1: Evidence the ability to use logic, reasoning and critical judgement to analyse ideas from a range of primary and secondary sources, and employ critical and theoretical methodologies to evaluate examples from the relevant subject discipline
Practical and Professional Skills
C1: Evidence the capacity for undertaking a wide range of independent practical
Key transferrable skills
6D1: Organise, plan and effectively manage self- erected projects and communication
Synthesis
All component parts of the project engaging in one complex, dynamic process
Informed engagement
The realisation of theory in, and through, practice
PRAXIS
CoP3 is a synthesised research project from the very beginning
CoP3 Proposal Form
Kickstarts the module
Makes you consider all aspects of your project in detail
Allows you to receive focussed feedback before Summer
Allows staff to consider the viability of your research
Download from CoP2 section of your course
Complete the form and submit to Drop Box on E-studio
Try to complete in as much detail as possible
A detailed response will probably mean better feedback
Subjects of Contextual Research already undertaken
Aim and or Objective of your Proposed COP3 Project
Try to define a subject
Be as specific as you possibly can
Think about it, then be more specific again
What research needs to be undertake into the general and specific contexts of your practise?
What factors sit behind your chosen subject?
How have historical, cultural, social, technological, economic, political and other factors influence it ?
Who are the key figures with my chosen subject?
What is the specific history of my shoe subject?
Are there any dominant or prevailing attitudes that inform my subject?
Is my subject culturally specific? If so, how?
What approaches will you take and what processes, methods, materials and told are to be involved in research into your practice?
How will you approach your chosen subject?
What sort of questions will you ask? why?
Methodology
Method- A way of proceeding about something in a systematic or logical manner.
Methodology- The science of method.
Some Methodologies
Historical
Sociological
semitotic
communication
theory
postcolonial
psychoanalysis
postmodenist
discourse anaysis
marxism
feminism
queer theory
gender studies
reflective practice
empirical investigation
hermeneutics
data collection
participant observation
Epistemology
What approaches will yu take and what processes, methods, materials and told are to be involved in research int o your practice?
Research conducted through practice
Reflective Practice (schon)
What effect do changing the materials that you use have on the end result?
What factors could disrupt your create practice?
What is the relationship of techniques that you use to other techniques in the sector?
What preparation or investigations do you need to undertake for your creative practice to take place?
How will you go about investigating my chosen subject?
No i said How?
Think about it...
Do you have to research into methods of research?
Do you need to research into materials?
How do you maximise the effectiveness of your research?
What research do you need to undertake regarding who your creativity is for ?
Who is your research project for ?
What professional contexts could you research be aimed at?
what specific organisations could use your research and how?
How would your tone of voice (visual or writen) change if you targeted your research at a different audience?
Does your work challenge existing knowledge in the field?
The Hermeneutic Circle
Developed by Heidegger
Interpretation is process designed to clarify an experience and assign meaning to it
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history
culture
philosophy
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