11340 Expanded Architecture in the Urban Environment
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 and Postgraduate
Description
This elective begins from an expanded field of architecture, linking spatial practice with ecology and aesthetics (art and science), to question how a thickened ground may both intrude into and disquiet urban space. There are many ways to bring together disciplines and this elective reflects on how their readings and activities on site may start to explore a personal approach which includes more-than-human worlds. Starting with Bruno Latour’s reclassification of all spaces on earth as Critical Zones where the ‘problem’ of climate change is no longer an external issue to be solved but materially and philosophically imbricated, this elective asks which other knowledges can inform us and how might they become visible? How might new urban form emerge from the relational fabric of more-than-human worlds. Working between theory and ground, students work between the close readings of texts and drawing, testing entanglements in urban spaces.
The elective encourages students to explore personal approaches to ecological thinking.
Typical availability
Autumn session, City campus
Spring session, City campus
Summer session, City campus
July session, City campus
Detailed subject description.