COURSE UNIT TITLE

: ART, SPACE AND THE CITY

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
PLN 4490 ART, SPACE AND THE CITY ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

City and Regional Planning

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR ERDAL ONUR DIKTAŞ

Offered to

City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

The aim of this course is examining the mental form and representation which are very important prerequisite for physical design through different form of fine arts.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Students will be able to define representational forms of space in art (Knowledge)
2   Students will be able to list the ways of different seeing of space and forms of representation (Knowledge)
3   Students will be able to describe the relationship among imagination, design, space and the city (Comprehension)
4   Students will be able to interprete the space imaginative (Application)
5   Students will be able to fix the different representations of space (Analysis).

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Art Image, imagination, space and the City Course made as a conference presentation and discussion. Reading list will be given in this week.
2 Paintings, graphics, space an the city Course made as a conference presentation and discussion.
3 Photography, space and the city Course made as a conference presentation and discussion.
4 Cinema, space and the city Course made as a conference presentation and discussion.
5 Midterm examination The midterm exam will be in the form of a short text submission in which the choice of the subject for the Term Paper, the context in which the subject takes place, the importance, purpose, methods and resources of the study are presented.
6 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
7 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
8 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
9 Discussions and criticis on Midterm Exam Paper (outline/fiction of assignment) Grouping of proposals made for semester work on a personal basis; opening the group title as a course subject and criticizing the proposals in this context will be done
10 Submission of Assignment's Drafts This week, students will deliver semester study drafts in text/poster/film formats, etc.
11 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made
12 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made
13 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made
14 Discussions and criticis on Drafts of Assignments Drafts made for the period study will be grouped on the basis of the subject and criticism of personal studies will be made

Recomended or Required Reading

Miles, M. (1997), Art, Space and the City, Routledge.
Oktay, A. (2002), Metropl ve Imgelem, Iş Bankası Yayınları.
Bachelard, G. (2013), Mekanın poetikası, Ithaki Yayınları.
Mennel, B. (2008), City and Cinema, Routledge.
Penz, F. (2011), Urban Cinematics : Understanding Urban Phenomena through the Moving Image, Intellect.
Lynch, K. (2013), Kent Imgesi, Iş Bankası Yayınları.
Foulkes, J. (2010), To The City Urban Photographs of the New Deal Urban Life, Landscape and Policy, Temple University Press

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

In the first four weeks the course is practiced by the forms of conference presentations. At the fifth week the issues and outlines of term assignments are cleared by the Students. Till the tenth week term assignments issues and outlines are argued and critisized. At the tenth week the drafts of the term assignments that developed according to criticis are delivered by students. Till the end of the semester the argumentations and criticising of drafts is made to refine the final forms of the term assignments.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE * 0.10 + ASG * 0.90
4 FINS FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.50 + FINS * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

With the Midterm Exam (delivered Outline/Fiction of the assignment) Defining the forms of representation of space in art (knowledge); listing different forms of vision and representation of space in art (knowledge); describing (comprehension) the relationship between imagination, design, space and city is evaluated. This evaluation is made through the measurments below:
1. Whether the context in which the topic of study selected for the term paper is in a strong relationship with the topic of Art, Space and City
2. Whether the aim, the importance, the method and resources of the study are expressed in explicit way

In the submission of the draft to be made in the 10th week of the term paper (assignment draft submission), in addition to the criteria valid in the midterm, analysis and application levels are evaluated by :
1. Whether the discussion and criticis' that made up to the tenth week are taking into account by the students
2. Whether the most appropriate form such as text / poster / film to express the subject is selected
3.The clarity and competence levels of the Language used by the writers

In the Final Submission of the term assignment, it will be evaluated on the basis of the whole semester, taking into account the level of development of the term study in line with the discussions and criticisms on both the midterm exam (outline / fiction of assignment) and the Assignment Draft.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

The course will be continued in the form of conference presentations and discussions on semester work, with a reading list primarily based on current examples.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

erdal.diktas@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Wednesday 08:30-10:15

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 7 1 7
Preparing assignments 2 15 30
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Midterm 1 2 2
Project Assignment 1 2 2
Final Assignment 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 72

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41
LO.51