Wood and Metals Workshop

Code:

OMM01

Acronym:

OMM

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
CNAEF	Fine Arts

Instance: 2022/2023 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Fine Arts Department
Course/CS Responsible:	Fine Arts

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
AP	5	Plano de estudos de LAP_publicaçao em DR de 24/05/2021	3	-	6	60	160
			4

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

In this UC, procedural environments are developed where materials (Wood and Metals) are transformed / transfigured from the learning of specific techniques and adapted to each of the materials referred to in the development of sculptural practice. Students participate in practical practical research environments with a markedly three-dimensional, spatial / physical presence consolidated in the sculptural vocation of FBAUP, encouraging the questioning of their individual practices and the respective creative processes supported by the workshop know-how. Students start and / or deepen their knowledge of the materials, techniques and processes related to these territories of action of Sculpture; promotes individual consciences and procedural competences to function collectively; instigates the development of methodological skills as a researcher in the field of Sculpture; exercises improvisation, analyzes the error as deepening the capacity for critical reflection in line with the development of the work and its results, within the scope of contemporary artistic practice.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)

Are not necessary prerequisites for the frequency of UC.

Program

The UC Oficina de Madeira e Metais pragmatically explores the student's fundamental relationship with the essential principles of process and technical methodology related to the subjects under study, in the field of action of Sculpture or the configuration of three-dimensional elements. Proposals are developed that broaden the sense of structured investigation of the capabilities of the two subjects under study.

 A.Wood and its derivatives.

1 Classification.

2 General properties.

3 Transformation processes, handling care and protection.

                                   3.1. Machines and tools.

                                   3.2. Addition and subtraction.

4 Finishing and preservation.

B. Ferrous and non-ferrous metals.

1 Classification.

2 General properties.

3 Transformation processes, handling care and protection.

                                   3.1. Machines and tools.

                                   3.2. Structures, masses and volumes.

                                   3.3. Foundry.

4. Finishes and preservation.

 

In the case of Madeira material, the various techniques and transformation processes are analyzed and explored in practical actions, such as the traditional or mechanical cut or construction processes essentially by fitting. In the case of Metals, there is a fundamental reflection on the referred matter through an essential practical experimentation developing proposals where questions of internal structure of "skeleton" are basic in the construction of the respective proposals. Reflections are promoted that generate collective environments, where a real exchange of experimentation, mutual help and sharing takes place where the most important thing is not to arrive, but rather the path.

The UC focuses on its interest in transformation, in the analytical action of students, observing and instigating their anxiety and their personal decisions.

Mandatory literature

AA.VV; Procedimientos y materiales en la obra escultórica, Aka, 2009. ISBN: 978-84-460-1805-6
Arkles, Jason; Sculpting From Life A Studio Manual of the Sight-size Method, 2007. ISBN: 13: 978-1430311560
Rachel Wells; Scale in Contemporary sculpture. ISBN: 978-1-4094-3194-7
Judith Collins; Sculpture today. ISBN: 978-0-7148-4314-8
Duchamp Marcel; Le Processus Créatif
Jens Hoffmann; The^Studio. ISBN: 978-0-85488-197-0
Jennifer Hudson; Process. ISBN: 978-1-85669-725-5
Rosalind E. Krauss; Passages in Modern Sculpture. ISBN: 0-262-61033-7
Javier Maderuelo; El^espacio raptado. ISBN: 84-397-1678-8
John W. Mills; Encyclopedia of sculpture techniques. ISBN: 0-7134-8930-8
Percy H. M.; New materials in sculpture, Tiranti, 1970. ISBN: 0-85458-996-1
Serralves, Fundação ; Alberto Carneiro: arte vida/vida arte,, Fundação de Serralves, 2013
William Tucker; The^language of sculpture. ISBN: 0-500-27104-6
Pye, Chris; Woodcarving Tools, Materials & Equipment - New Edition, Volume 1, Guild of Master Craftsman Publication Lda., 2003. ISBN: 1 86108 201 0
Pye, Chris; Woodcarving Tools, Materials & Equipment - New Edition, Volume 2, Guild of Master Craftsman Publication Lda., 2003. ISBN: 1 86108 202 9

Teaching methods and learning activities

The activity developed in the workshop spaces is the basis of all the analysis and reflection of the students' projects and is essential to the investigation of the subjects in focus in this UC (Wood and Metals). The development model of the different proposals allows to create collective dynamics, effective exchange of experimental practices according to common bases. The implementation of several proposals through a technical and creative practice on a specific subject allows to guarantee possibilities of results and an easier learning of the procedural specificities of each workshop environment. It concentrates the students' particular creative processes at each moment of exploration, mixed with experimental procedures of uninhibited creativity and own decisions resulting from their research projects. The UC produces a space for sharing experiences, knowledge and an intuitive encounter between individuals. It is also a place that encourages an individual research dynamic in the various sculptural territories intrinsically linked to the subjects under study, Wood and Metals.
Students are constantly monitored by the UC professor in theoretical presentations and practical explanations, as well as in the development of all experimental actions in procedural environments. The teacher will be present in support of practical development, proposing theoretical presentations, sharing information and exposing doubts, making intersections of their practice with the practices of contemporary authors, in individual or group actions. The assiduous participation of the student and his involvement in the programmed actions is essential for the success of the teaching methodology, thus guaranteeing an enhancement of the collective experience. The student will have to develop a written work of reflection where all their procedural development will be shaped, the encounters and disagreements with the subjects and respective techniques, intersecting their research project with other authors.

 

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation without final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Participação presencial	40,00
Trabalho escrito	20,00
Trabalho prático ou de projeto	40,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Elaboração de projeto	15,00
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese	15,00
Frequência das aulas	60,00
Trabalho de investigação	20,00
Trabalho laboratorial	50,00
Total:	160,00

Eligibility for exams

Assessment is continuous, but it is carried out at two levels:

First level: corresponds to the evaluation to which the result of each completed exercise is submitted, in comparison with the applied processes.

Second level: evaluation of the student's progression throughout the semester, also included in the dossier that he compiles himself, through which it is possible to reconstruct an evolutionary set view. 

Calculation formula of final grade

- Attendance will be valued at 40%,

- Class presentations, various procedural developments 40%,

- Written work 20%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable.

Internship work/project

Not applicable.

Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)

Not applicable.

Classification improvement

Frequency in the UC in the following year.