VSA1003 Soft Architecture (FOART)

Units 1.0 (Fine Arts) Band 1

Synopsis

Soft Architecture is the art of spatial investigations and interventions and as a result this course discusses how interiority is a physical, virtual, perceptual, experimental space, negotiating between the natural and the artificial. Students in this class will be experimenting with materials as well as developing theory which will increase understanding of construction and how and why objects are built in a certain way. Students will develop work being presented in essays, written plans, their own constructed online sites that students will post work on, eg Myspace and Facebook, artwork, models and designs. The overall aim of this course is for students to experiment with ideas and materials ant to develop an intuitive methodology of working which allows them to construct their own response to a definition of what space means historically as well as within their own personalised ideas.