Class Project Seminar I

This CU provides as a central space for design practice, where students develop and consolidate their core projects. Based on the four structuring forums of the master's degree - Geographies and Food; Climates and Cultures; Communities and Publishing; Future Archives - and their interrelationship with design and the students' interests, different theoretical and practical activities will be developed to help them define the themes and objectives of their research projects. The CU will have an experimental and guiding character, through contact with teachers and tangential intervention with guests and external institutions, which will contribute to the discovery and maturing of the students' ideas and proposals in an expanded, multidisciplinary and useful way for the communities they will serve. 

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Description of contents Definition of the theme/objectives of the research/design project: Based on the four structuring forums of the master's degree - Geographies and Food; Climates and Cultures; Communities and Publishing; Future Archives - their interrelationship with design and the interests of the students, different theoretical-practical activities will be developed to help them define the themes and objectives of their research projects;  Collecting and organising study material: Students will learn to build strategies for collecting and managing theoretical and practical material relating to their projects, through their own design practice and by observing the work processes of guest professionals; Linking/managing the contents, methods, practices and material produced in the other UCs, to facilitate the definition and organisation of each student's projects and the work supervised by the respective teachers. 

This curricular unit is of a theoretical/practical nature based on active pedagogical methodologies/practices focused on the student and their learning through discussion and practical experimentation of the knowledge acquired in the work process, promoting an individual and collaborative training path. Establishing an open dialogue between teachers, students and guests allows skills to be acquired in an integrated and meaningful way and fosters autonomy, collaboration and cooperation. This curricular unit is assessed on a continuous basis and focuses on attendance, participation, materialisation, discussion and commitment to the work proposed. Assessment, which is individual in nature, is defined at different key moments in the proposed exercises, according to the supervision of each teacher/guest, discussed together at the end of the semester. These assessment moments are defined by the teachers and are compulsory.

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