Travelling Studio (Italy) (ABPL90296)

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 will, however, be available.

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SPECIFIC INFORMATION ABOUT TRAVELLING STUDIO (ITALY) - VENICE BIENNALE

Introduction:

The Venice Biennale (La Biennale Di Venezia) is the world’s premier international cultural festival. Since its inaugural Art Biennale in 1895, the Venice Biennale has grown to incorporate recurring festivals of Art, Architecture, Dance, Music, Cinema and Theatre in locations throughout Venice, Italy. The first Venice Architecture Biennale (La Biennale Architettura) was held under the direction of famed Italian architect and theorist Paolo Portoghesi in 1980. Thereafter directors including Aldo Rossi (1985 and 1986), Kazuyo Sejima (2010) and Rem Koolhaas (2014) helped forge the festival’s formidable reputation as a generator and proliferator of new discourses of architecture globally. Such is the importance of La Biennale Architettura a who’s-who and who-wants-to-be of world architecture collide on the famed pavements of Piazza San Marco, Ponte di Rialto and Punta della Dogana to soak in vast swathes of exhibition, performance and discussion with established and emerging international architects, urbanists, theorists, curators, scholars and many from outside the discipline.

La Biennale Architettura 2018 runs May – November. The 2018 Travelling Studio (Italy) - Venice Biennale provides students with the ideal means to observe, document and critically engage with the vanguard of contemporary curatorial practices which are re-defining architectural exhibition making, representation, publicity, museology, and indeed the role of the architect today. These observations and analyses will be supported by themes of New Institutionalism (the global proliferation of the temporary festival phenomenon – the Venice Biennale being only one), Identity and Curatorship particularly within the context of Venetian practices and the work of Carlo Scarpa renowned for his many fine modernist buildings within the Veneto region. This studio positions students within the best possible context to cite, investigate and propose new paradigms for the realisation of architecture as curatorial condition.

APPROXIMATE COSTS

Return Flights: $3,000
Living expenses (meals and incidentals): $800
Local Travel: $300

Note: Participating students will receive a one-off subsidy of $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), ABPL90115 (Master of Architecture Studio E) or Electives

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For further information please check the following link: https://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/graduate/subject-options/travelling-studios