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Travelling Studio (Chile) (ABPL90114)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Semester 2 |
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Travelling studios are working laboratories for design thought and production and involve the exploration of complex, real-life issues. They expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems.
These studios aim to bring together students from architecture, urban design, landscape and planning streams and encourage an interdisciplinary focus.
Pre-trip briefings or seminars will precede the travel component of the studio. The studio will incur travel costs, in addition to tuition fees. Faculty subsidies may be available.
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Specific information about Travelling Studio (Chile)
This studio will bring together students of architecture, landscape architecture and urban design from the University of Melbourne who will work collaboratively with Landscape Architecture master students from the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile (PUC), Santiago, Chile. The aim of the studio is expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Santiago is the capital city of Chile and located in a valley surrounded by mountains, with the Andes Mountains to the east and the Coastal Range to the west. Integrated within the urban fabric are 26 “island hills” (Cerros Isla). Given their size and relationship to other natural elements, these hills offer the possibility of shaping a matrix of open spaces within the city in order to interconnect recreational and natural systems. Many of these hills are located in areas of the city that have limited green space and there is an opportunity to reverse the inequality in the accessibility to green areas within Santiago for people living in these areas. Many of these Island Hills are in areas with lower socio-economic demographics and typically have poor-quality, if any, formal parks and other community facilities. Local municipalities responsible for management of these public spaces often lack the financial resources to develop them, hence they are mostly left in an undeveloped state. This presents a unique opportunity for the transformation and integration, both physically and socially, of marginalized urban areas, through strategies that define alternative forms of public urban domains, such as areas for passive recreation, urban agriculture and other possible uses.
Students will work with local communities, local governments and NGO’s (e.g. Santiago Cerros Isla Foundation) in exploring the design potential for one or more of these “island hills”. They will initially in research the design possibilities of these Island Hills in terms of their ecological, social and cultural attributes and at multiple scales of the environment. Students will also participate in design workshops, both before and after the travel component of the studio, in addition to the intensive work to be undertaken during the travel component in Chile.
Santiago`s unequal socioeconomic distribution in relation to its unequal distribution of green spaces. (Source: Own elaboration based on Santiago Cerros Islas Foundation maps).
APPROXIMATE COSTS
Travel: $2,500
Accommodation: $300
Living expenses (meals and incidentals): $400
Note: Students may be eligible to receive a one off payment of up to $1,000 from Melbourne Global Mobility (conditions apply) and $800 subsidy from the Faculty - utilised towards student’s accommodation costs. Prices listed are subject to change.
CREDIT
This traveling studio can count as credit towards your course in one of the categories listed below
Master of Landscape Architecture: Landscape Studio 5 (ABPL90072) or Electives
Master of Architecture: Studio C (ABPL90142), Studio D (ABPL90142), Studio E (ABPL90115) or Electives
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For additional information about this studio: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/travelling-studios
Intended learning outcomes
- To provide students with an experience in international collaboration.
- To encourage students to identify and engage critically with specific cultural practices, industrial contexts and socio-technical traditions.
- To stimulate systematic/creative thinking and problem solving within students through their experiences of how local issues govern planning, design and construction processes in a particular location.
Generic skills
- Interdisciplinary teamwork.
- Understanding and navigating social and cultural differences.
- Knowledge transfer.
- Organisational collaboration.
- Managing risk.
Last updated: 3 November 2022