11329 Infrastructural Ecologies
6cp; attendance is by agreement between student and supervisor (individual project); via separate document (elective)Requisite(s): 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10004 Bachelor of Design Architecture OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10325 Bachelor of Design Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 72 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10413 Bachelor of Design Architecture Master of Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C09079 Bachelor of Landscape Architecture (Honours) OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10271 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10423 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of Languages and Cultures OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10272 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of International Studies OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10322 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.
Undergraduate
Description
The relentless pursuit of economic growth has historically propelled an ever-expanding reliance on natural resources, erasing, shaping, and altering cultures while transforming landscapes. This pursuit of power over resources, environments, and people has led to deforestation, drilling, mining, and extensive terraforming of the planet. As a consequence, biodiversity zones have been devastated, communities displaced, and profound racial, social, and economic disparities have emerged as issues inherently intertwined with environmental changes. This condition presents an opportunity to perceive and redefine resource grounds, atmospheres, and their infrastructures as an interconnected process that does not segregate substance from significance, or nature from culture.
The elective aims to re-narrate the British Empire Exhibition of 1924-1925 in relation to Australian resources profiled at this exhibition. It is centred on mapping as an investigative act that reveals the conflicts and productive rights of more-than-human entities and matters associated with the extractive resources and their associated landscapes from the British Empire Exhibition of 1924 to now. The objective of the elective is to critically re-narrate the enduring material flows and metabolic transformations in this region over time (from the 1900s to now), exploiting the evolving perceptions and values attributed to land and its non-human counterparts through periods of colonisation and capital growth.
Typical availability
Autumn session, City campus
Spring session, City campus
Summer session, City campus
July session, City campus
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