Designing Living Systems (LARC20001)

The studio-based subject explores the integration of living systems into Melbourne’s urban environments at three different scales: the park; the street and the dense residential environment. The subject builds on theories, principles, practices and representations introduced in Natural History and focuses on design applicability through a series of assignments which:
• assimilates three-dimensional design principles, ecological functions, spatial patterns and formal aesthetic considerations of planting design with the built urban environment;
• engages with and manipulates the interrelationship between plant, soil, hydrological and climatic conditions
• explores the psychological and behavioural aspects of human relationship as a part of the living system.