Courses
VART3445 Studio: Object Technology (Robotics and Kinetics) (9 units)
- Prerequisite:
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(VART2466 Media Arts: Multimedia Authoring and VART2467 Media Arts: Physical Media) or (VART2486 Woodworking and VART2487 Metalworking) or (VART2575 Digital Tools: 3D Software Fundamentals and VART2576 Digital Tools: Prototyping) or (VART2586 Space and Site and VART2587 Space and Display) or (VART2606 Sculpture: 3D Technology for Sculpture and VART2607 Fibreglass Sculpture) or VART2675 Multimedia Authoring and Physical Media or VART2685 Woodworking and Metalworking or VART2726 3D Software Fundamentals and Prototyping or VART2735 Spatial Design and Display or VART2727 Hong Kong Craft and Design or VART2737 Digital Modelling and Fabrication for Sculpture
- Medium of Instruction:
- English
Studio courses allow students to practice and experiment conceptually with previously acquired skills in one particular area of application as defined in the course title and the course's cluster association. For that purpose, studio courses are taught project-based with integrated themes that will change every time the studio is offered as potentially may the instructors delivering the course.
To facilitate the intended versatility and interdisciplinarity of the studio courses, for each term all staff aligned with a cluster will "appoint" one of themselves as the "studio leader" for that term only; subsequently it is up to the studio leader to define a "studio theme" for his/her term, and to invite other practice colleagues from the same and/or other clusters to contribute to that theme. The theme will be communicated as a sub-title to the course, which will therefore change every term. To support and consolidate the students' practice all studio courses feature integrated theory modules.
Through examination of history and theory related to the topic, students will get an initial perspective of contemporary issues in Experience Design from an interdisciplinary and cross-cultural perspective. The course will then guide them to integrate various points of view, and to develop their own critical judgement on the topic under study.
Following this initial introduction, the course will continue to investigate through practice different approaches and methodologies to the course topic, and ultimately connect and integrate them with existing skills and knowledge of course participants.
Both as process and outcome students will be required to undertake exercises and assignments of varying sizes and complexity that intellectually and practically respond to the course's theme defined and elaborated by the studio's teaching team.