Course: Renewable Materials in Art and Design: Tracing of Materials and Technologies II

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Course title Renewable Materials in Art and Design: Tracing of Materials and Technologies II
Course code KUU/FU019
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Lesson
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 3
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Course availability The course is available to visiting students
Lecturer(s)
  • Vlasák Robert, doc. MgA.
  • Krtička Jan, MgA. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
1. Basic overview of the possibilities and conditions of recycling and the use of reusable materials and waste in the creative process, linking current technologies with recycling and upcycling 2. Recyclability of art and design objects - practical assignment 3. Consultation of proposals for possible shape and technological solutions 4. Implementation of the assignment in the studio and workshops 5. Waste as a source of material and inspiration - practical assignment 6. Consultation of proposals for possible shape and technological solutions 7. Realization of the task in the studio and workshops 8. Recycled materials for art and design - practical assignment 9. Implementation of the assignment in the studio and workshops 10. Final finishing of the realizations, photo documentation

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The tutorial will lead students through the history of environment-friendly materials and technologies, and will acquaint them with how to obtain and process them in the context of contemporary visual art and design. The subject focuses on learning about crafts and technologies and their reactualization with regard to long-term sustainability. It includes traditional historical procedures and their applications influenced by current needs and technological advancement, but also innovations based on current trends. These principles are associated with acquisition of necessary natural materials, and their processing. Emphasis is placed on an authentic locality in order to increase sensitivity to the given material and the environment it is acquired from. However, it also implies the specific timing of individual processes within the annual cycle. An essential point is to explore the landscape and its specifics, i.e. especially the element of the local context. The teaching is concentrated into thematic blocks of time-contingent options of acquiring materials ? so-called collection, including material processing depending on the weather or season. This is a multi-disciplinary subject ranging from application of unfired clay in architecture, through the use of wicker materials to textile technologies and processing of animal products. It includes both specific locally historical techniques and imported technologies from completely different cultural and historical areas. It touches processing of wood and metals, whether in direct form or in preparation of tools and equipment. However, an exact material or cultural area is not permanently defined and will be updated according to specific conditions. An integral part of the tutorial is the interconnection of technologies with machine and tool equipment, which - through its maintenance or creating the users? own specific tools - leads to a deeper understanding of their function. The subject includes digital processing of background information and documentation; as well, it counts on direct involvement of current digital means in the creative process when implementing the students? artistic or designer projects, which are the final output of the subject - the final works. The combination of theoretical knowledge and practical skills will allow students to explore aesthetic, environmental, and economic aspects of material and technological applications. The more interconnected system of theoretical and practical teaching in terms of "material tracing" and "technology tracing? gets, through following on historically estblished, now updated experimental procedures and production practice, to their artistic/designer solitary application in the studio. Two-semester concept of four subjects of Renewable Materials in Art and Design: Tracing of Materials and Technologies for the second year of the Bachelor?s studies is ended with a final work after each semester. The theoretical and practical skills acquired during the semester will thus be utilized in the students? own author realization to be presented to both general and professional public during the official exhibition of winter- or summer-semester final works. The subject is part of the innovated portfolio of subjects of the Design Bachelor?s programme of study, specialization Design. This study programme of study is followed by the Design Master's programme of study.
The acquired competencies represent the mastery and acquisition of knowledge in the given field, based on a specific annotation of the subject and are aimed at fulfilling the profile of a graduate of the given field.
Prerequisites
Successful completion of the previous study

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
1. Fulfilling partial tasks and assignments throughout the semester 2. Active participation in the Studio tutoring
Recommended literature
  • Bio Art: Altered Realities. London: Thames & Hudson, 2015. ISBN 9780500239322.
  • DAVIS, Heather a TURPIN, Etienne (ed.). Art in the anthropocene: encounters among aesthetics, politics, environments and epistemologies. Critical climate change. London: Open humanities press, 2015. ISBN 978-1-78542-005-4.
  • GRANDE, John K. a Petr ŠESTÁK. Dialogy umění a přírody: rozhovory s environmentálními umělci. Praha: Powerprint, 2015. ISBN 978-80-87994-27-6.
  • KULA, Daniel; TERNAUX, Elodie a HIRSINGER, Quentin. Materiology: průvodce světem materiálů a technologií pro architekty a designéry. Praha: Happy Materials, 2012. ISBN 978-80-260-0538-4.
  • MINKE, Gernot. Příručka hliněného stavitelství: materiály - technologie - architektura. Bratislava: Pagoda, 2009. ISBN 978-80-969698-2-1.
  • MYERS, William. Bio design: nature, science, creativity. Autor úvodu Paola ANTONELLI. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014. ISBN 978-0-500-29150-4.
  • NAVRÁTIL, Ondřej. Řečiště a vlna: české umění a environmentální problematika na počátku 21. století.. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 202. ISBN 978-80-210-9837-4.
  • Navrátil, Ondřej. Zelené ostrovy - české umění ve věku environmentalismu 1960-2000. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, Pedagogická fakulta, 2017. ISBN 978-80-210-8883-2.
  • PETERS, Sascha a DREWES, Diana. Materials in progress: innovations for designers and architects.. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2019. ISBN 978-3-0356-1358-2.
  • RAAB, Miroslav. Materiály a člověk: netradiční úvod do současné materiálové vědy. Univerzita Tomáše Bati, Zlín, 2020. ISBN 978-80-7454-901-4.
  • REIS, Dalcacio, WIEDEMANN, Julius (ed.). Product design in the sustainable era. Köln: Taschen, 2010. ISBN 978-3-8365-209.
  • WALLIS, Brian, KASTNER, Jeffrey (ed.). Land and environmental art. London: Phaidon, 2001. ISBN 0-7148-3514-5.
  • WATSON, Julia. Lo?TEK. Design by Radical Indigenism. Taschen, 2019. ISBN 978-3836578189.
  • Žabičková, Ivana. Hliněné stavby. Technická knihovna (ERA). Brno, 2002. ISBN 80-86517-21-7.


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