Prof Dip in Art & Ecology
This Professional Diploma in Art and Ecology programme introduces learners to the contemporary and historical field of art and expanded ecologies through situated environmental learning. Using and responding to NCAD’s physical inner city location learners will connect with inspiring ecological practices, environmental justice community projects and artists spearheading this emerging field. With our current Earth crises, we need to urgently develop new and necessary Nature/ Culture futures. The historical, cultural and professional contexts of how artists operate and work with ecological themes and the current earth crisis will be explored in rich and varied ways. Using Eco creative principles students will explore a diversity of practices and approaches and become attuned to ways to practise in this territory.
The programme is delivered under the Creative Futures Academy, a dynamic partnership between NCAD, UCD and IADT.
The programme works directly with an urban embedded novel ecology of the NCAD FIELD site. This taskscape acts as an outdoor classroom, a site for nature connection, commoning and a testing site for multi-species futures. Connecting to the site and its seasonal activity, nature/culture connections are explored and enacted allowing learners to expand their research, creative making and critical thinking skills in meaningful and liveable ways. A grounding in the social, political, economic and historical issues that frame ecologies of the surroundings site are explored. Through the Diploma Programme practitioners will expand, develop and question their practices using the NCAD FIELD as a testing site and shared learning space.
The programme supports a range of creative approaches and interdisciplinary art and design practitioners that wish to connect and work in the space of critical ecologies and expanded environments. Learners aiming to evolve as artists, curators, activists, designers and cultural producers will be supported, giving them the tools, networks and knowledge to confidently work in this interdisciplinary field.
The four 5-credit modules that comprise the Professional Diploma in Art & Ecology (total 20 Credits) are offered sequentially. They conform to the order below and one module in sequence must be completed and passed before another is embarked upon. Within the Professional Diploma suite of modules Creative Principles is always the first Module and the Creative Capstone is the last. The centre modules have been selected to embody the type of educational vehicle most appropriate to the subject matter. The order of these modules must be followed by learners.
Programme Specification and Module Descriptors
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The programme is made up of four modules which are studied on a parttime basis. Each module is 5 credits, equivalent to 100 hours of student effort.
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