FA7052 - Professional Focus 2: Project Managing Public Art (2023/24)
| Module specification | Module approved to run in 2023/24 | ||||||||||||
| Module title | Professional Focus 2: Project Managing Public Art | ||||||||||||
| Module level | Masters (07) | ||||||||||||
| Credit rating for module | 20 | ||||||||||||
| School | School of Art, Architecture and Design | ||||||||||||
| Total study hours | 200 | ||||||||||||
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| Running in 2023/24(Please note that module timeslots are subject to change) |
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Module summary
This module equips students with the practical and professional skills necessary to project manage public experiences. It prepares students for key practices, such as risk assessment and public liability. Alongside providing technical knowledge, it encourages a creative exploration of how to manage, predict and encourage public interactions in artworks. It progressively develops into curatorial organisation and project management, with a specific focus on logistical and pragmatic solutions.
In doing so, the module aims to:
- provide an insight into the formal safety requirements in public art experiences;
- inform students on formal and legal regulations in terms of public access, inclusion and safeguarding;
- provide exploratory and creative strategies to complement logistical needs;
- provide students with an understanding of project management in staging and curating public experiences.
Prior learning requirements
N/A
Syllabus
This is a practical module delivered through workshops on site and in given locations. Each week, live tasks will inform the learning of specific technical skills to do with predicting, managing and encouraging public engagement situations. LO2, LO3
Technical knowledge will be delivered through training in relevant procedures such as risk assessment studies, technical planning, accessibility studies. The module will be progressively tailored to planning and managing the students’ own projects. LO1, LO2, LO4
Balance of independent study and scheduled teaching activity
The module comprises taught practical workshops, with tasks simulating real-life work situations. Students are expected to complement these with additional research and practice, increasingly focused on their own project plans.
Reflective learning activities and online resources via Weblearn will be consistently utilised.
Learning outcomes
On completion of this module, students will have gained:
LO1 a technical understanding of key practices, such as risk assessment, public access and public liability;
LO2 opportunities to test such understanding in practical case studies, through direct experiences and observation of existing practice;
LO3 an understanding of project management in public art and performative practices, based on direct experience and given case studies;
LO4 an insight into how logistical and organisational issues both frame and inform artistic and curatorial work, whilst maintaining creative integrity in the latter.
Assessment strategy
Assessments in this module are designed to reflect real-life professional situations, making use of the technical knowledge (e.g. scale drawings, risk assessments, accessibility strategies) developed through the subject. The first assessment will be delivered in the form of a live presentation, articulating a plan for a hypothetical project responding to a given brief in a specific location, assigned by the tutor.
The second assessment will require a written project plan tailored to the student’s specific work. This should include relevant technical details, as well as a project management strategy in the envisioned work.
Bibliography
Please view reading list here: https://rl.talis.com/3/londonmet/lists/C6B72546-B942-3F86-CB28-D94E3047A0B2.html?lang=en-GB&login=1