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Travelling Studio (Sri Lanka) (ABPL90260)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Not available in 2018
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Travelling studios are working laboratories for design thought and production and involve the exploration of complex, real-life practical issues. They expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people, and stimulate their ability to think creatively and solve problems. At the same time, it serves as a platform to sharpen student's skills to lead and/or work in a team setting.
These studios aim to bring together graduate students from architecture, urban design, landscape and urban 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 will, however, be available.
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Specific information about Travelling Studio (Sri Lanka)
In demographically diverse suburbs in Melbourne, place making practices are unconsciously enacted through cultural practices and habits of citizenry imported from other places. Where do they originate? How do they change during the migration process? Can they inform urban renewal policy and design? This design studio will focus on developing approaches for urban renewal through a twin study in the City of Greater Dandenong and Colombo, Sri Lanka with students and staff of the University of Moratuwa.
Students will begin preliminary work on a pilot project for urban renewal identified by the City of Greater Dandenong. They will undertake fieldwork in a selected precinct through a series of creative place-based methods to uncover and document existing place-making practices of communities. The travel component to Colombo will include engaging in a similar fieldwork process in selected urban precincts, collaborating with architecture students and staff from the University of Moratuwa. Returning to Melbourne they will use the perspectives and insights gained from their travel component as a framework of analysis through which they will re-consider their designs and fieldwork from the local urban precincts. Students will continue to develop and refine their schemes. The studio will culminate in a presentation to Places Victoria/Council, invited practitioners and exhibition.
The travel component will also include an architectural and urban development tour of selected historic and contemporary works in Sri Lanka.
The studio is suitable for Architecture, Landscape Architecture, Urban Design and Urban Planning students with strong conceptual three-dimensional thinking, and a high level of communication skills (drawing and modelling, either digital or physical).
APPROXIMATE COSTS
Travel: $1500
Accommodation: $500
Living expenses (meals and incidentals): $210
Note: Students may be eligible to receive a one off payment of up to $1000 from Melbourne Global Mobility (conditions apply) and $800 from the Faculty - utilised towards student’s accommodation costs. Prices listed are subject to change.
CREDIT
This travelling studio can count as credit towards your course in one of the categories listed below
Master of Architecture: ABPL90142 (Master of Architecture Studio C), ABPL90143 (Master of Architecture Studio D) or ABPL90115 (Master of Architecture Studio E)
Master of Landscape Architecture: ABPL90072 (Landscape Studio 5: Sustainable Urbanism)
Master of Urban Design: ABPL90273 (Urban Design Studio B) or ABPL90389 (Urban Design Studio C)
Master of Urban Planning: Electives
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For further information about this studio: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/graduate/subject-options/travelling-studios
Intended learning outcomes
- Demonstrate proficiency in skills associated with collaboration within interdisciplinary teams both in local and international contexts.
- Identify and engage critically with specific cultural practices, urban contexts and socio-technical traditions.
- Demonstrate systematic/creative thinking and problem solving by analysing how local issues affect planning, design and construction processes in a particular location.
- Develop skills in comparative analysis through the consideration of two distinct contexts.
- Effectively communicate and convey a sense of design work through strategic use of multiple media tools.
- Identify and critically respond to ethical challenges.
Generic skills
- Interdisciplinary teamwork and knowledge transfer
- Understanding and navigating social and cultural difference
- Collection,analysis and synthesis of data and information
- Understanding of relevant policies and practices
- Demonstrate of critical thinking in identifying and engaging with issues related to public spaces.
Last updated: 3 November 2022