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Project Workshops
This session will be run in three separate clusters, as follows: 7Writing Cluster (Studio 55) Facilitators: Karlien Van Den Beukel / Anna Reading / Colin Harvey Second Years: Marion Lakah, James Gbesan, Arti Dillon First Years: Adebowale (Debo) Oriku, Christopher Jackson, Andrea Hamilton, Ruth Jones Video and New Media Cluster (K204) Facilitators: Chris Elliott / Patrick Tarrant / Tahera Aziz Second Years: Andon Kamenarov, Vanessa Pellegrin First Years: Andre Gomes, Gemma Whelan, Stanislaw Slupczynski, Daniel Fenton, Phillip Figueroa Arts Management, Theatre and Arts Education Cluster (K205) Facilitators: Philip Sanderson / Andrew Dewdney Second Years: Natalie Campbell, Abisola Akinrele First Years: Marina Saura, Hannah Smith, Maria Chiriac Photography Cluster (K206) Facilitators: Paula Roush / Katrina Sluis / Daniel Rubinstein Second Years: Zoe Van-De-Velde First Years: William Davis, Carrie Hancox, Bexy Cameron
This mornings session is a chance to workshop your project research (first years) or dissertation (second years), beginning with a short presentation or overview (these should be no longer than 510 minutes each). You may wish to prepare a brief (one page) summary as a handout (please prepare copies before the session, not on the day). You may use other audiovisual material as appropriate, bearing in mind that the standard equipment 1
youll find in the room is limited to a computer and data projector. If you have any other requirements, please arrange these in advance with Gordon Kerr and the Keyworth technical team. First Years: Presentations for the proposal stage should include an outline of the aims and objectives, rationale, relationship to core dimensions of study, reading and theoretical material with some reflection on where you take the project next in terms of research and development. Presentations should demonstrate your progress during the selfdirected study period of the past two months of the research and development work related to their project. You should have made some progress building on the feedback from your tutor(s) from your initial proposal. Presentations should include some critical discussion of reading and theoretical/research material: how can this help your project? You are also expected to relate your project to the four dimensions of study as suggested in the Unit Guide: Project Research. You are expected to outline how you have developed and experimented with prototype ideas and how you are keeping a record of these and a plan for the autumn term. You are asked to consider what project idea development problems would be helpful for your group to explore with you in the 10 minute question and answer workshop that could help give your project further direction. Second Years: Presentations should outline the idea(s) you have been developing over the summer for your dissertation. You should have made some progress since the June symposium and are reminded to look at the Unit Guide for guidance. You are asked to consider what dissertation idea development problems would be helpful for your group to explore with you in the 10 minute question and answer workshop that could help give your project further direction. There will be a follow-up session on this on Day Two.
12.301.30 Lunch for students and tutors A buffet lunch will be available
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Parallel sessions
First Years Research Methods Workshop Studio 55 Daniel Rubinstein This session concludes the series of research methods seminars by suggesting a number of new perspectives on the relationship between technology, power and knowledge. We opened this series by looking at Martin Heideggers The Question Concerning Technology, in which he put forward the idea that technology has nothing to do with machines, equipment or rational thinking, and has everything to do with the way people who live in the age of technology see themselves, and others as means to an end. We later moved onto reading Michael Foucaults work on panopticism, exploring the ways that power, control and discipline manifest themselves through such innocuous systems as a classroom, a childrens TV programme or a pop song. In the last session of this cycle we will be reading Postscript on the Societies of Control by Gilles Deleuze. Deleuze broadly agrees with Foucaults analysis of power, but he feels that digital communications, the Internet and globalisation shift the focus of power from systems to networks. In preparation please read Postscript on the Societies of Control (available on the MA Blackboard site) and review the two previous texts by Heidegger and Foucault. Key text: Gilles Deleuze, Postscript on the Societies of Control, October, Vol. 59 (Winter, 1992), pp. 3-7.
Second Years Dissertation Development Workshop K204 Phil Hammond Following on from the workshops on your work on day one, you should come to this session prepared with a one page outline for the MA dissertation that you would like to develop over the coming two terms. This is normally a written dissertation of between 12-15,000 words. Exceptionally, students may do a dissertation in another form, in agreement with their tutor and the course director. The outline should include: the theme, a rationale for the study, the overall research question, a brief literature review, suggested methodologies or forms of analysis. You will further clarify your idea in terms of aims, objectives, rationale, methods, research design and articulation. We will discuss your idea and help you develop it. MA Dissertation deadline: Friday 4 May 2012 (60 credits).
12.301.30 Lunch for students and tutors A buffet lunch will be available
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Parallel sessions
First Years Progressing Unit 2: Project Research Studio 55 Chris Elliott Reminder of core elements of the unit that you were introduced to in June. Exploring various and appropriate forms of research for different kinds of projects, including practice as research. Extending and developing your project work through wider reading and contexts. The criteria for assessment and discussion of the form(s) your project would best be assessed (e.g. it might include some practical prototypes or experiments, along with some written work). Project Research deadline: Friday 9 December (30 credits).
Second Years Progressing Unit 4: Project Evaluation K204 Hillegonda Rietveld Reminder of criteria for the unit (aims, forms of assessment etc.). Reminder of the principles of critical evaluation at PG level: How have you found this applies to your own project? How are you relating your project through the four dimensions of study? What additional reading have you done over the summer? Project Evaluation deadline: Friday 9 December (15 credits).
3.304.00 Coffee Break Break for informal student discussion in preparation for the Course Board
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