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Emphasising the importance of context, Themes in Contemporary Culture will introduce you to social, cultural, aesthetic, political, historical and global contexts. Through a series of thematically arranged lectures and correlating tasks & seminars, you will encounter new ideas, strategies for confronting existing concepts, as well as tools and modes of critical thinking and analysis.
The assignment will require you to start asking questions, carry out relevant research, engage with challenging ideas, organise ideas into structured arguments, and put forward your own responses to local and global issues we face in contemporary culture. You will explore themes and ideas of personal and professional interest, and consider the wider implications of those on creative industries. Using research, this will require you to think critically, and analyse various modes of cultural production, practices and contexts. There is a Formative assessment point at the end of Term 2, when you will receive feedback – or ‘feed forward’ – from your lecturers, which will benefit the development and quality of the Summative assignment.
This will require you to:
● Formulate a research question around a concept / idea / theory that is of interest to you, e.g. time, identity, melancholy, space, gender or similar (the chosen concept may have emerged from one or several of the weekly lectures). This can build on the theme explored for the Formative.
● Carry out and use research from a range of appropriate sources. These should be referenced in the text and listed in the bibliography, using the Harvard System of referencing.
● Choose 1-3 examples from visual and design culture (media, film, design, art, communication)
● Interrogate your concept and example/s and place these into relevant context (e.g. social, political,
aesthetic, technological, historical contexts)
● Analyse your chosen examples from visual culture
● Organise your inquiry into a research-based text, which include:
- a clear research question (title)
- an introduction (approx. 200 words)
- a body of text, structured into paragraphs (approx. 1600 words) - a conclusion (approx. 200 words)
● List a range of research sources in a bibliography, listed in alphabetical order according to the surname of the author
● The word count does not include the bibliography, notes or appendices.
Balram, (2011) Thinking Design, London, Sage
2. Berger, J. (1972) Ways of Seeing, London: Penguin
3. Berger, J. (2009) About Looking, London: Penguin
4. Cottrell, S. (2005) Critical Thinking Skills, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan
5. Francis, P. (2013) Inspiring Writing in Art and Design: Taking a Line for a Write, Bristol: Intellect Books
New Mindsets / Ravensbourne University London 2018/19
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6. Hall, S. (2012) This Means This, This Means That: A User’s Guide to Semiotics, 2nd ed., London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd
7. Northedge, A. (2008) The Arts Good Study Guide, 2nd ed., Milton Keynes: Open University Worldwide
8. Tilley, C. et al. (2013) Handbook of Material Culture, London, Sage
