Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice with a specialization in Developing and Extending Practice
- 1-year Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice with a specialization in Developing Practice, 2011-2012
- 2-year Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice with a specialization in Developing and Extending Practice 2011-2013
Program Overview
The Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice with a specialization in Developing and Extending Practice is a post-graduate level program that has both a 1-year and 2-year option.
The 1-year Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice with a specialization in Developing Practice is a post-graduate level, introductory program to art and design practice. The program focuses on developing practice and also provides a foundation for applicants seeking entry into other specializations being offered at the advanced diploma level.
The 2-year Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice with a specialization in Developing and Extending Practice is for applicants seeking a wider range of enquiry and the opportunity to carry forward a longer duration of research with greater depth. The 2-year program offers several pathways leading to Honors award.
Srishti’s Advanced Diploma Program in Art and Design Practice offers a route for further research and for pursuing doctoral studies. The program welcomes students, researchers and practitioners seeking to develop a more expansive practice.
Application Details
Applicants are expected to hold an undergraduate degree or its equivalent. Applicants who have substantial and significant experiential learning, a portfolio of work and written evidence demonstrating the meeting of graduate qualities may also be considered.
Curriculum Content
The curriculum content will draw from the diversity of research interests and projects being explored at Srishti by fulltime and visiting practitioners at the institute The curriculum will be influenced by the topics and themes being explored through the various specializations in fields such as media, communication, art and craft practice, visual ethnography, media activism, curatorial practice, critical and political theory, aesthetics, art education, environmental education and public pedagogies. It will also comprise of endeavors resulting from partnerships and connections with local creative enterprises, cultural industries, public and civic services in the city. The research areas and themes will be decided on a semester basis.
The program comprises of both independent and guided enquiry involving individual and group workshops, field-based explorations, studio practice, seminars, conceptual and practical projects, and a range of events. Participants will be offered the opportunity to collaborate on a range of interdisciplinary activities within a larger community of practitioners. By exploring new modes of understanding, interpretation, knowledge production and dissemination, participants will develop self-defined and independently lead enquiries within a broader understanding of their practice.
The focus of the curriculum at the advanced diploma level is on finding new ways of knowledge production and dissemination. The curriculum actively intersects between academic, scientific, artistic and activist ways of knowing and explores how forms of outputs resulting from these intersections can be acknowledged and validated as knowledge.
Program Pathways
There are several pathways offered within the 2-year program. After completing 1 year, you may navigate your way between the available 2-year options depending upon the flexibility allowed within a chosen specialization. For example, you may enroll for the 1-year introductory program in Developing Practice and then opt to do your second year either in Experimental Media Arts or in Designing Education and subsequently earn an Honors diploma award. Alternatively, you could continue with your second year in Developing and Extending Practice and earn an award in the same. You also have the opportunity to enroll in any of the 1-year specializations in your first or second year. The Advanced Diploma in Art and Design Practice thus offers many possibilities to those who wish to develop an expanded professional practice.
Program Leaders
Smriti Mehra / e-mail : smriti@srishti.ac.in
Deepak Srinivasan / e-mail : deepak@srishti.ac.in
Program Faculty
Dr. Jyothsna Belliappa
Deepak Srinivasan
Kalpana Tanwar
Smriti Mehra
Dr Indira Chowdhury
Geetanjali Sachdev
2011-12 Themes & Research Interests
The research projects and interests and the leading faculty for the year 2011-12 are as follows:
Dr. Jyothsna Belliappa: The Great Indian Wedding- An Ethnographic Project
Deepak Srinivasan: Aesthetics of Navigating and Negotiating Indian Identities & Practices
Kalpana Tanwar: Mapping Flow and Process
Smriti Mehra: Invisible Labor
Dr. Indira Chowdhury: Cityscape/Storyscape: Oral Histories of Bangalore
Geetanjali Sachdev: Public Practice & Pedagogy
Visiting Practitioners, 2011-12
- Rune Sochting, PhD scholar, The Royal Danish Art Academy for Fine Arts, Copenhagen
Zeenath Hasan, PhD scholar, School of Arts and Communication, Malmo - Cassie Thornton, Nicholas Morris and Cara Levine, Artists, California College of the Arts, U.S.A
For further details please contact:
Deepak Srinivasan (deepak@srishti.ac.in)
Smriti Mehra (smriti@srishti.ac.in)
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