🔵 🔴 🟡 Course description

The course aims to present the way in which the outdoor Stage space is organized through design, volume, color, tonality, lighting and sound and the way in which these elements are used in contemporary Scenography, but also in Architecture, Sculpture, Installation Art, and all other arts and theatrical activities that converse with Public Space. Thus, Architecture-Sculpture-Installation Art-Environmental Art are considered as a single field of interaction. Emphasis will be placed on the construction and presentation of the outdoor stage space as an autonomous visual composition, on the peculiarities presented and on the correlation of the outdoor scenery with the natural and cultural environment. there will be a special design for a Mural with graffiti elements, which will be publicly presented outdoors.

Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to:

• Compose the outdoor Stage space as a multidimensional visual composition with expanded possibilities and influences from other forms of Arts, studying the individual elements and connecting the functionality of the space with its aesthetics.
• Organize with different construction techniques (Storyboard, sketches, digital model, collages, photoshop, plastic model to scale) their idea of shaping an outdoor Stage space.
• Organize the construction for public projects.
• Combine many views and influences and remove the superfluous, in order to obtain the necessary morphological and conceptual elements.
• Use communication-mutual exchange of views, and team synchronized work in order to achieve the result of Aesthetic management of outdoor space on a large scale.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Theory (1 hour)

1. What is outdoor scenography?
2. How we design and visually process the idea for outdoor scenography
3. Graffity art
4. Frescoes
5. Set Design and Painting
6. Set Design and Sculpture
7. Set Design and Architecture
8. Urban scenography
9. Environmental scenography
10. Art of installation / Land Art
11. Street Theatre / Circus Contemporary
12. Ephemeral art / Recycled art
13. Topospecific theatre

Theoretical background: The Scenography related to the Outdoor space and the special conditions in which it is realized as well as its special expressive possibilities will be presented. The visual individual elements (design, color, tonality, volume, textures) and their possibilities, as well as the way in which they compose the external Stage space, shaping it into a construction that is functional but at the same time can exist as an autonomous aesthetic composition. The multidimensional character of Scenography and its correlation with Painting, Sculpture, the two-way relationship of Scenography with Architecture, Modern and Contemporary Art (Installation Art, Environmental Art, land Art, Ephemeral Art, Graffiti Art, Murals), as well as parameters related to the integration of the outdoor Scenic space into a different natural and cultural environment will be explored.

🔵 🔴 🟡 Workshop (2 hours)

1. What is outdoor scenography?
2. How we design and visually process the idea for outdoor scenography
3. Graffity art
4. Frescoes
5. Set Design and Painting
6. Set Design and Sculpture
7. Set Design and Architecture
8. Urban scenography
9. Environmental scenography
10. Art of installation / Land Art
11. Street Theatre / Circus Contemporary
12. Ephemeral art / Recycled art
13. Topospecific theatre

Art Workshop: Gradually learning this vocabulary, and with corrections and discussions, students will work in groups to compose visual Scenery that could, for example, be presented in a Mural with graffiti elements. With a variety of construction techniques they will give materiality to the representation of their idea (sketches, collage, photoshop, storyboard, digital model, plastic model under scale), presenting theoretical work that will support the specific choice as well as the influences that led to it.

Review language: Greek

🔵 🔴 🟡 Evaluation method:

• Formative assessment (40%) including:

• Presentation of the dossier and Draft of the final work, with a documentation text of 300 words. 10%

• Presentation of a dossier and artistic work, with a documentary text of 300 words. 10%

• Progress: presentation of the dossier and the development of the initial Draft, with a documentation text of 300 words. 20%

• Final evaluation (60%) which includes: a) the final presentation in digital form or plastic model or project in the space. The final presentation can be group, but will be accompanied by an individual documentation text of 300 words that will include influences/references to artists, bibliography, artists' works, and presentation of the folder.

*The folder refers to the personal research done by the students in stages, from the beginning of the course and may contain sketches, photographs, videos, notes-remarks, references to artists, collages, and general sketches-drafts (dated), in relation to the processing of the final work. Also all presentations (with presentation date) which precede the final work.

• Face-to-face
• Use of ICT in teaching
• Use of ICT when communicating with students.

• Learning process through an electronic platform.

https://eclass.uop.gr/courses/PDA162/ 

🔵 🔴 🟡 Course Textbooks [Eudoxus]

• Astrid von Rosen, Viveka Kjellmer, Set Design and History of Art, Kardamitsa Publications code. {122092503}
• Zefi Kolia, Stitches of the Avant-Garde, Metaichmio Publications, cod. {122076850}
• Elina Daraklitsa, Floor Plans and Shading, Polytropon Publications, code. {122079139}
• D.P.Konteletzidou, The Idea as Material, the Material as an Idea, Epikentro Publications.
• Alkis Charalambidis, Art de facto, University St.Press Publications

Extra Bibliography

• Kaye, Nick. Postmodernism and performance. vol. New directions in theatre (Macmillan, 1994). 

• Burian, Jarka. The scenography of Josef Svoboda. (Wesleyan University Press, 1974)

• Shyer, Laurence. Robert Wilson and his collaborators. (Theatre Communications Group, 1989).

• Payne, Darwin Reid. Scenographic imagination. (Southern Illinois University Press, 1993).

• Brecht, Stefan. The theatre of visions: Robert Wilson. (Methuen Drama, 1994).