11129 Communications 2
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Credit points: 6 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): 11128 Communications 1
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses.
There are course requisites for this subject. See access conditions.
Description
Communications 02 builds on the representation and visualisation skills established in Communications 01, focusing on 3D modelling and rendering to communicate and explore the landscape. Situated on Sydney’s coast, students engage in advanced terrain modelling while examining the vegetal, the aquarian, the social, the human and more-than-human, and the geological.
Participants learn to model complex terrains in Rhino, prototyping these in workshops, as site investigation and research, improving and developing their three-dimensional landscape skills and critical thinking. In the second half of the semester, students then take these models and continue to iterate through speculative critical frames using rendering programs and film-making practices to formulate a storyboard that depicts changes in climate, culture, nature and the social.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Associate with digital drawings – orthographic drawing, three-dimensional digital models, technical and explorative drawing techniques. |
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| 2. | Associate with digital pro-typing, laser modelling, 3D printing and analogue material models |
| 3. | Develop a representational framework, which connects material and poetic elements of landscape |
| 4. | Present work verbally and clearly articulate a position through the orchestration of different documents, formats and communication techniques. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Work cooperatively and productively as part of a team. (C.1)
- Communicate ideas professionally. (C.2)
- Advance ideas through an exploratory and iterative design process. (I.2)
- Develop advanced skills for the production, presentation and documentation of work. (P.1)
- Define and apply appropriate design research methods. (R.1)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The term CAPRI is used for the five Design, Architecture and Building faculty graduate attribute categories where:
C = communication and groupwork
A = attitudes and values
P = practical and professional
R = research and critique
I = innovation and creativity.
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs) are linked to these categories using codes (e.g. C-1, A-3, P-4, etc.).
Teaching and learning strategies
The subject is delivered in Lectures and Studio Sessions
Students receive hand-outs that set the requirements for each exercise or assessment. Work following each hand-out is discussed in subsequent classes, offering opportunities for feedback prior to student submission.
Weekly sessions include lectures, exhibitions and time constraint individual and collaborative workshops in the Studios.
Regular one-hour illustrated lectures introduce theory and examples pertinent to the overarching themes and activities of the subject.
The remaining hours per week are structured as guided working sessions in the Landscape studios. These working sessions include participatory group discussion, using individual work to facilitate group learning through discussion and critique.
Students are expected to attend all lectures, studio and labs sessions, and follow the methods for producing the work, set out in subject material.
Recommended readings and graphic references will be available at UTS library and/or UTS online.
Content (topics)
- Digital drawing
- Analogue drawing
- Critical communication strategies
- Reading precedent
- Developing an individual drawing practice
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Build
| Intent: | This assessment task will introduce 3D terrain modelling. Using various techniques, to build a model in Rhino of the surfaces, solids and textures of a chosen section of Malabar beach. These models will be used as a tool to explore the intersection of coastal landscape processes, geologies, ecologies, and anthropic conditions. Students will examine these conditions through a chosen theme, and engage in fieldwork practices (images, audio recording, hand drawing, videos) to formulate a site narrative. This narrative will form the focus of the 3D model transect and complementary drawing set. The results in week 05 will be a suite of drawings and a digital model arranged to form a position about the site. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2 and 3 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): C.2, I.2 and R.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Design/drawing/plan/sketch | ||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 40% | ||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Communicate
| Intent: | This assessment task will take the model, drawing suite and site narrative from AT1, and use this investigation to formulate an informed speculative future for the site of Malabar. Students will engage in both rendering and film-making programs, to create a storyboard for this future scenario. Throughout this process, students will continue to iterate on their site models to suit the conditions of their future site-narrative. The final storyboard images and film will explore the multi-layered landscape expressions that narrate a position, narrative and material expression for the site. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2 and 4 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): C.1, I.2 and P.1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Design/drawing/plan/sketch | ||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 60% | ||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Minimum requirements
Minimum essential requirements for students in this subject: it is imperative that students attend and actively participate in all scheduled classes, i.e. lectures, studio and lab sessions. The DAB attendance policy requires students to attend no less than 80% of formal teaching sessions (lectures and tutorials) for each class they are enrolled in to remain eligible for assessment. Attendance and participation record will be kept for all sessions. Where assessment tasks are to be presented personally in class attendance is mandatory.
Pursuant to UTS rule 2.5.1 students who do not satisfy attendance requirements may be refused permission by the Responsible Academic Officer to be considered for assessment for this subject.
Late submissions will be penalised with a 10% of their grade per day.