Ontario College of Art & Design

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ENVR 1B01
Environmental Design 1
0.50 Credit(s)
Studio
This course will introduce students to the visual language required to express creative ideas in two and three dimensions. Using a variety of tools, techniques and materials, students will become familiar with the conceptual frameworks, organizational principles and creative processes employed in environmental design. Emphasis will be placed on the creation of three-dimensional artifacts, on the two-dimensional drawing techniques required to represent these artifacts, and on the iteration between dimensions required to advance a comprehensive and compelling environmental design proposition. In support of meaningful creativity, students will be introduced to the use and implications of analogue fabrication, such as prototype- and model-making, as well as analogue representation, such as freehand, hard-line paraline and perspective drawing. Students will also be challenged to observe, explore and evaluate the designed world they inhabit, in order to locate their own creations in a contemporary and historic context.
Notes: No substitute.
Course was last updated June 23, 2011 - 2:34 PM