COURSE UNIT TITLE

: PHOTOGRAPHY, URBAN CITY AND PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTS 2046 PHOTOGRAPHY, URBAN CITY AND PSYCHOGEOGRAPHY ELECTIVE 2 2 0 6

Offered By

Photography

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR PINAR BOZTEPE MUTLU

Offered to

Photography

Course Objective

Psychogeography is a set of traditions and ideas that exist in multiple times and places and explores
human interaction with the city and the emotions arising from this interaction. Thanks to the
psychogeographic approach, examples of which can be seen in many media from music and literature
to visual arts, artists have discovered subjective and alternative ways of looking at the city. The
course aims to apply psychogeographical practices such as Dérive and Detournment in the context of
Photography and to realize projects with the vision of urban and visual design.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Able to produce projects with an urban and design elements approach
2   Able to exhibit new perspectives in the light of avant-garde and conceptual visions
3   Will be able to do research on photography art and urban culture.
4   Will be able to apply designs on urban aesthetics, layers of the city and artistic vision.
5   They will be able to learn photo-based digital applications required for designs.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to Psychogeography
2 General Terminology, Psychogeography in Different Visions
3 Situationism and urban aesthetics in interdisciplinary vision
4 Cartography and Photographic art
5 Creating a psychogeographic map
6 On the emotional geography of cities
7 Urban Exploration Photography
8 Lighting techniques in urban photography
9 Photographing dynamic and static elements in the city
10 Photographing dynamic and static elements in the city
11 Equipment and equipment: Outdoor shooting
12 Introduction to photo editing software, concept development, image processing
13 Project presentation and evaluation

Recomended or Required Reading

David Gibson "The Street Photographer's Handbook"
"Wanderlust: A History of Walking" by Rebecca Solnit
Online Resources: Websites for contemporary city photography such as Magnum Photos,
LensCulture and The Guardian's "In Pictures" section
Merlin Coverley' "Psychogeography"
Simon Sadler "Situationist City"
Michel de Certeau "The Practice of Everyday Life"
Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz"Bystander: A History of Street Photography"

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRC PRACTICE
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRC * 0.50 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

pinarboztepe@gmail.com

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 14 4 56
Tutorials 6 10 60
Preparing assignments 2 8 16
Preparing presentations 2 8 16
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 148

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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