city|speculations

POSTGRADUATE COURSES

MSc Cultural Studies

 

Culture and Criticism I:  Keywords, Key Texts

      FOCUS for 2012/13: CITY, VISUALITY, MEMORY.

Culture and Criticism II:  Critical Objects and Practices

      FOCUS for 2012/13: THINKING IN MOVEMENT: BODY, PLACE, GESTURE.

Researching Cultures

Research Modalities

TEXT and [Con]TEXT investigations of visibility and materiality of texts

      FOCUS for 2012/13:  ACADEMIC VERNACULAR: THE EVERYDAY OF WRITING

Text and the City

 

PAST COURSES:

Culture and Criticism I:  Keywords, Key Texts

Culture and Criticism II:  Cultural Practices, Critical Objects

Visual Culture of Eastern Europe.

 

 

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

MA Architecture in Creative and Cultural Environments

 

Investigative Project   2011/2012: EDINBURGH CLOSE-UPS

                                   2012/2013: PHOTOGRAPHY & PLACE

Critical Portfolio

Advanced Study

 

 

STUDIO TEACHING

 

Cultural Context and Fieldtrip for M.Arch Studio 2007-09 (Mark Dorrian's studio)

Warszawa: Post-socialist City and Its material Pre-Histories

see WARSZAWA: projects for the post-socialist city

 

Interdisciplinary Urban Studio – Florence/Edinburgh, MSc in The City, 2008/09

see ZONZO: exploring the urban fabric

 

 

SELECTED WORKSHOPS/ INVITED SEMINARS:

 

Researching the Visual. Practice-based research workshop for ECA PhD students, Edinburgh, December 2011.

 

Visual Methodologies, Translation Cultures AHRC/CRCEES Research Forum Seminar, Summer School in Prague, Glasgow University/University of Edinburgh/NYU,  July 12‐13, 2011;

 

Visual Methodologies: Vectors of Looking, Marble Project on War Memories, Border Region, Maastricht University, March 17‐18, 2011;

 

Dreaming Objects/Stills: Urban Research Workshop with Urban Heritage Programme Bauhaus Universität‐Weimar (Jerzy Elzanowski), Newcastle University (Mark Dorrian), University of Edinburgh (Suzanne Ewing), and Warsaw University of Technology (Ewa Kurylowicz). PRACOWNIA, Katy Bentall's Studio, Warsaw, November 2010;

 

Urban Heritage. Interdisciplinary PhD Workshop, Bauhaus Universität‐Weimar May 3‐7, 2010;

 

Disorientation/Orientation. Advanced Master in Design Cultures, ZDH design2context Zurich, June 2008;

 

Urban Visual Landscapes, Beijing Foreign Studies University, Nanjing University, April 2007;

 

Visual Methodologies, Cultural Heritage Seminars, Warsaw University of Technology, September 2005;

 

Discursive and Presentational Forms: Questioning Art Theory, seminar for a graduate course Philosophy and the Arts, Stony Brook in Manhattan, Prof. Edward S. Casey, November 2002.

 

 

MASTERS DISSERTATIONS OF NOTE

 

Kaitlyn Hay, Icon of Temporality: Documenting Battersea Power Station.  MSc in The City 2011

Luke Smithson, Invisible, Illegal, Impossible: Curatorial Issues and New York's Underbelly Project.  MSc in Contemporary Art 2011

Alexis Grieve, The Urban Languagesphere: Chisinau as the Modern Bi-lingual/Bi-alphabetical City.  MSc Cultural Studies 2011

Robert Pott,  (De)signing the Street: Learning from Leith Walk, Edinburgh.  MSc in The City 2010

Amy Porteous, Curating Street Art.  MSc Contemporary Art 2010

Meaghan Thurston, The Art of Placing: Visualising Home and Memory.  MSc Cultural Studies 2010

Anna Mcgrenaghan, The Fragmented Body: A Theoretical Dissection of its Parts.  MSc Cultural Studies 2010

Sebastian Schmidt, Critical Objects: Travel as a Practice of Urban Research.  MSc in The City 2009

David Bell, Violent Visions: The Imagery of Abu Ghraib.  MSc Cultural Studies 2009

Rebecca Salois, Invisible Qianmen: A Study in Reading the Chinese City Focused on Beijing's Qianmen Neighbourhood.  MSc Cultural Studies 2008