Image Semiotics / Logbook methodology

Teacher: Raphaël Pirenne

The aim of the course is to equip students to produce a logbook to accompany their practices developed in multidisciplinary workshops and in orientation. The logbook is a tool for navigating one or more practices, whatever their nature. It makes it possible to situate the practice in relation to the references, notions and content (theoretical, practical, cultural, historical, emotional, etc.) that determine it, and to gradually identify the internal coherence of the practices involved.

The logbook is not determined a priori in its form (it can take a material or digital form) and is also an interface, or a mediation instrument, enabling the different teachers accompanying the student to provide feedback on the practice(s) throughout the year, using appropriate pedagogical methods. The aim of this methodology course is to support students in the production of this tool in an individual and collective dynamic, based on multidisciplinary workshops in the first semester, and all workshops in the second, with a focus on the common project.

The course will present methods for producing "logbooks" or tools to support historical practices, and will also propose specific methodologies based on students' own practices. In addition, the course will offer specific methodological support for groups of students, enabling them to gradually build up their own tools.