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Travelling Studio (Italy) (ABPL90296)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
July
Email: woods.scott@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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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 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
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 difference
- Knowledge transfer
- Organisational collaboration
- Managing risk
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Assessment
Additional details
- On-site Design Research (book) - during travel component (30%)
- Design Development at Faculty - post travel (30%)
- Exhibition Design / Presentation at Faculty - by the last assessment date (40%)
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- July
Principal coordinators Alan Pert and Scott Woods Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 340 Total time commitment 340 hours Pre teaching start date 21 May 2018 Pre teaching requirements Pre-travel mandatory OH&S session Teaching period 2 July 2018 to 1 September 2018 Last self-enrol date 29 May 2018 Census date 6 July 2018 Last date to withdraw without fail 27 July 2018 Assessment period ends 1 September 2018 July contact information
Email: woods.scott@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
340 hours
Additional delivery details
Quota: 16
This subject is a quota subject and places are limited. Students will need to submit an application form via the EDSC Travelling Studio page. You will be notified in writing by STOP 1if you are selected.
Selection criteria: Application and Academic merits
For detailed information on the subject application process and due dates, refer to the EDSC Travelling Studio webpage: https://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/graduate/subject-options/travelling-studios
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Links to additional information
Last updated: 3 November 2022