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
Our ubiquitous and relentless exploitation of the earth as a resource to be plundered and commodified continues to disrupt the deep complex processes of nature leading to major environmental and health ramifications. Racial, social, and economic disparities that are imminently present and inherently linked to the environment are further exacerbated. In the global north, the ever-expanding dependency on energy has historically been driven by an endeavour for economic growth that has ‘formed and informed cultures, and transfigured landscapes’. In a drive for power ‘we have deforested, drilled, mined, extracted, removed mountaintops, and terraformed the planet’, destroyed biodiversity zones, dislocated communities, and created racial, social, and economic disparities that are immanently present and inherently linked to environmental changes.
This elective introduces and explores new value systems for the environment and alternative definitions of work and energy to tackle this complex systemic suite of crises. Australia's east coast national grid will be used as the case study area for the elective.
Students in this elective develop a compelling speculative spatial understanding through a composite drawing that indexes and maps the ‘site’ and its extended territories for a specific system within the energy sector.
Typical availability
Autumn session, City campus
Spring session, City campus
Summer session, City campus
July session, City campus
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