| Course Name | Art, Design and City |
| Code | Semester | Theory (hour/week) | Application/Lab (hour/week) | Local Credits | ECTS |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FFD 563 | Fall/Spring | 3 | 0 | 3 | 7.5 |
| Prerequisites | None | |||||
| Course Language | English | |||||
| Course Type | Elective | |||||
| Course Level | Second Cycle | |||||
| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | ||||||
| Course Coordinator | - | |||||
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| Assistant(s) | - | |||||
| Course Objectives | This objective of this course is to understand and question the relationship between art, design and the city by taking the city as a social and physical entity. |
| Learning Outcomes | The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | To understand the discourses on the relationship between art, design and the city since modernism and to analyze a given urban space based on these. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals | |
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| Core Courses | |
| Major Area Courses | X | |
| Supportive Courses | ||
| Media and Managment Skills Courses | ||
| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Required Materials |
| 1 | Introduction to the course | |
| 2 | Modernity and the City | Readings, Worksheet |
| 3 | Avant Garde Movements in Art and Architecture in the 20th and 21st century | Readings, Worksheet |
| 4 | Public Art: Theories and Practice | Readings, Worksheet |
| 5 | Art, Culture and Urban Space in the Global Era | Readings, Worksheet |
| 6 | Arts for Urban Regeneration and/or Gentrification? | Readings, Worksheet |
| 7 | Art in the Making in the City: Art incubators, culture industry clusters in the city | Readings, Worksheet |
| 8 | Urban Redevelopment through Arts: Miami Design District and Wynwood | Readings, Worksheet |
| 9 | City Case Studies: London Southbank and Shoreditch Representing the City through Art and Architectural Design: Art and culture venues, public art, street art | Report and Presentation |
| 10 | City Case Studies: Istanbul Cihangir, Karakoy, Galata, Beyoglu Representing the City through Art and Architectural Design: Art and culture venues, public art, street art | Report and Presentation |
| 11 | City Case Studies: Portland Pearl District and Alberta Arts District Representing the City through Art and Architectural Design: Art and culture venues, public art, street art | Report and Presentation |
| 12 | City Case Studies: Buenos Aires Palermo Soho and Palermo Hollywood Representing the City through Art and Architectural Design: Art and culture venues, public art, street art | Report and Presentation |
| 13 | City Case Studies: Sao Paulo Vila Madalena (Pinheiros District) and Jardins District Representing the City through Art and Architectural Design: Art and culture venues, public art, street art | Report and Presentation |
| 14 | Art and Design in Izmir: Getting Ready for the Final Project • How has Izmir been represented through art and design historically and in the recent times in different artictic mediums? • What are the important public art and venues in Izmir? • Where is art exhibitied in Izmir? • Where is art produced in Izmir? • Is there a cluster for art and culture industry in Izmir? • How is the built environment appropriated to the art, design and cultural production in Izmir? | Final Report and Presentation |
| 15 | Review of the Semester | |
| 16 | Review of the Semester |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | None |
| Suggested Readings/Materials | Georg Simmel (1903), “The Metropolis and Mental Life,” Kurt Wolff (trans.) The Sociology of Georg Simmel (New York: Free Press, 1950), 409424; Christopher Crouch, Modernism in Art, Design and Architecture (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1999), “The Cultural Background to the Machine Age”, 1028; Hide Heynen, “New Babylon: The Antinomies of Utopia,” Assemblage, No. 29 (Apr., 1996): 2439; Rosalyn Deutsche, “Uneven Development: Public Art in New York City,” October 47 (Winter, 1988): 352; Anthony Vidler, Warped Space: Art, Architecture, and Anxiety in Modern Culture (Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2001), “Agoraphobia”, 2550; Beatriz Colomina, “The Split Wall: Domestic Voyeurism,” in B. Colomina (ed.), Sexuality & Space (Princeton Architectural Press, 1992), 7398; Kristine Nielsen, “What Ever Happened to Ernst Barlach? East German Political Monuments and the Art of Resistance,” in Totalitarian Art and Modernity, eds. Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen and Jacob Wamberg (Aarhus: Aarhus Univ. Press, 2010), 147169; Leo OuFan Lee, “Shanghai Modern: Reflections on Urban Culture in China in the 1930s,” Public Culture 11, No. 1 (1999): 75107.; Ronald Lee Fleming “The Art of Placemaking: Interpreting Community Through Public Art and Urban Design” (Merrell Publishers, 2007); Harriet Senie “Critical Issues in Public Art: Content, Context, and Controversy” (Smithsonian Books, 1998); Cher Krause Knight “Public Art: Theory, Practice and Populism” (Wiley-Blackwell, 2008); Antawan I. Byrd and Reid Shier “Art Cities of the Future: 21st-Century Avant-Gardes” (Phaidon Press, 2013) |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation | 12 | 12 |
| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio | ||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 28 |
| Presentation / Jury | 2 | 20 |
| Project | 1 | 40 |
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exam | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade | 100 | |
| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
|---|---|---|---|
| Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | 3 | 48 |
| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) | 16 | ||
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 7 | 98 |
| Field Work | |||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | |||
| Portfolio | |||
| Homework / Assignments | 1 | 21 | |
| Presentation / Jury | 2 | 6 | |
| Project | 1 | 46 | |
| Seminar / Workshop | |||
| Oral Exam | |||
| Midterms | |||
| Final Exams | |||
| Total | 225 |
| # | Program Competencies/Outcomes | * Contribution Level | ||||
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | ||
| 1 | To be able to advance specialized architectural knowledge based on qualifications acquired at the undergraduate level. | X | ||||
| 2 | To be able to conceive the interdisciplinary nature of the architectural field and apply such knowledge and analytical capacity to interdisciplinary studies. | X | ||||
| 3 | To be able to apply specialized knowledge in architecture in theoretical or practical work. | X | ||||
| 4 | To be able to produce new knowledge by integrating architectural knowledge with knowledge in other disciplines. | X | ||||
| 5 | To be able to diagnose and evaluate a specific problem in architecture and to relate this ability to publishing or practice. | X | ||||
| 6 | To be able critically evaluate knowledge peculiar to the architectural field, facilitate self-directed learning and produce advanced work independently. | X | ||||
| 7 | To be able to communicate contemporary developments in architecture and one’s own work in professional and interdisciplinary environments in written, oral or visual forms. | X | ||||
| 8 | To be able to consider, control and communicate social, scientific and ethical values in the accumulation, interpretation, publication and/or application of architectural data. | X | ||||
| 9 | To be able to critically analyze the norms that inform spatial relationships and their social implications and to develop original thesis according to guidelines. | X | ||||
| 10 | To be able to keep up with developing knowledge in Architecture and participate in academic and professional discussions using at least one foreign language. | X | ||||
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