88617 Design Study Tour
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Credit points: 6 cp
Subject level:
Undergraduate
Result type: Grade and marksRequisite(s): 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): 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 OR 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)
These requisites may not apply to students in certain courses. See access conditions.
Description
This studio promotes cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural engagement within the discipline of interior and spatial design by constructing a studio environment in an international context. The studio aims to build upon students' skills of investigation, documentation, analysis, and creative response by repositioning the studio in foreign geographic territory. The studio facilitates international cultural exchange by interacting with societies and stakeholders outside of the Australian context. It also promotes interdisciplinary activities through its engagement with external design programs.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Expand the complexity of design practice through a set of specific strategies |
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| 2. | Intensify theoretical speculation through site analysis, collaborative group work, and seminars |
| 3. | Explore configurations between context, objects and inhabitation |
| 4. | Demonstrate competency in advanced and engaging communication methods. |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Ability to take autonomous responsibility for actions and decisions (A.1)
- Ability to communicate ideas effectively, including oral, written, visual, analogue and digital presentations (2D and 3D) (C.2)
- Ability to understand and generate design propositions across a diverse range of design scenarios and negotiate final propositions with multiple stakeholders (I.2)
- Ability to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes (I.3)
- Ability to rigorously explore, apply and extend multiple representational techniques (P.2)
- Ability to analyse, formulate and synthesise complex ideas, arguments and rationales and use initiative to explore alternatives (R.2)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of interior and spatial design precedent and to contextualise one's work within the extended discipline (R.3)
Contribution to the development of graduate attributes
The term CAPRi is used for the five Design, Architecture and Building faculty graduate attributes. The course content, learning strategies and assessment structure is explicitly designed with these attributes in mind.
C = communication and groupwork
A = attributes and values
P = practical and professional
R = research and critique
I = innovation and creativity
Teaching and learning strategies
The global studio environment is configured in two major parts, field trips and workshops. The field trips will take place locally in predefined locations specific to the project brief and characteristic of the international environment. It is the intention of the field trips to provide precedent study cases that can be investigated both on site, and later in a collaborative workshop environment. Design studios will comprise of UTS and local students as well as their corresponding teaching staff. Encouraging discussion between all students and teaching staff, it is anticipated that the studios environments will afford UTS students the opportunity to deploy their observations and knowledge in novel environments, offer the opportunity for both student group to learn from each others skills and strategies, and develop design results that act as evidence for this expanded design process.
This subject contributes to the students' learning as follows:
To expand the complexity of design practice through a set of specific strategies
To intensify theoretical speculation through site analysis, collaborative group work, and seminars
To explore configurations between context, objects and ecologies
To demonstrate competency in advanced and engaging communication methods
To learn and employ novel technologies in a landscape context
Content (topics)
This studio will examine international urban configurations, interior typologies, practice models, and vernacular modes of spatial inhabitation. The studio will examine its subject matter through class visits of case studies, collaborative engagement with partnering universities, and direct cultural engagement with foreign stakeholders.
Information specifically relating to the currently iteration of the Design Study Tour can be found in the subject brief.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Submission of Individual Research Componantry
| Intent: | It is the intent of assessment 1 to record site visits and precedent studies. The regular submissions are aimed at ensuring that the students are working on precedent analysis daily, facilitating the dual modes of operation between first-hand experience of the precedent/site condition and its documentation and analysis through architectural drawing. |
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 3 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.2 and R.3 |
| Type: | Report |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 40% |
Assessment task 2: Preliminary Submission of Research Report
| Intent: | Aimed at producing the thematics + strategy for the workshop document. It is envisaged that the overall document will illustrate a broad range of the landscape and infrastructural models in question allowing students to draw comparisons between them. It is hoped that this comparison will allow themes to emerge that can be catalogued in relation to the ecological and social forces that give reason to the formation of infrastructure types. |
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3 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.): A.1, I.2, I.3 and P.2 |
| Type: | Portfolio |
| Groupwork: | Group, group and individually assessed |
| Weight: | 20% |
Assessment task 3: Final Submission of Research Report
| Intent: | Development and presentation of the final workshop documents. The thematic content is resolved and the students should have responded to feedback and updated their work. Further, it is important that the final copy reads as a single document with a cohesive graphic and written style. |
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 3 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.): A.1, I.2, P.2 and R.2 |
| Type: | Portfolio |
| Groupwork: | Individual |
| Weight: | 40% |
Minimum requirements
- The Faculty of DAB expects students to attend 80% of all classes for all enrolled subjects. Achievement of the subject’s aims is difficult if classes are not attended. 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.
- The use of mobile phones or other electronic devices for private use during studio time is not permitted.
It is imperative that students attend all on-campus engagements. Attendance means active participation and overall engagement. Records of attendance, participation and overall engagement will be kept.
You are expected to be on time, be present until the end of studio and be adequately prepared for each class.
Required texts
Initial Texts:
?Milica Topalovic 2016 "The Architecture of the Territory?" CARTHA II, issue 33
Treib, M. 2018, ‘Doing almost nothing’, in The landscapes of Georges Descombes: doing almost nothing, Oro Editions, San Francisco, pp. 14-37
Clemmensen, T.J. 2014, ‘The management of dissonance in nature restoration’, Journal of Landscape Architecture , 9:2, pp. 54-63.
Kondolf, G. 2018, ‘The Aire’s free space: a geomorphic perspective’, in Aire: the river and its double , Park Books AG, pp. 169-179
Marot, S. 2007, Sub urbanism and the art of memory, Architectural Association, London, pp. 58-82
Hutton, J. 2015 Günther Vogt’s Multiform Cosmos, Landscape Architecture Magazine, July 2015
Further texts to be advised and provided.