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Travelling Studio Tuhoe (New Zealand) (ABPL90410)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
Gini Lee: virginia.lee@unimelb.edu.au
Tanja Beer: beer.t@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Summer Term |
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Fees | Look up fees |
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 TUHOE (NEW ZEALAND)
This studio brings together students of the University of Melbourne (Melbourne School of Design, Office of Environmental Programs) and the University of Victoria Wellington (School of Architecture) to explore indigenous knowledge systems (specifically, that of the Tūhoe tribe) and their capacity to inform and inspire new design processes. The studio will explore how cross-cultural knowledge systems can deliver new approaches to regenerative development, including understanding how Tūhoe perspectives of place and kinship can offer new approaches to our global-local environmental challenges. This is a critical question for considering the decolonisation of our practices as designers and one that begins to question the political process and internalisation of colonialist mindsets and ‘norms’ for the co-creation of our thriving future.
The Tūhoe traditional homeland Te Urewera, situated in the eastern North Island of New Zealand, is a densely forested mountain area with fertile river plains to the north and west, and pristine lakes to the south. Te Urewera is an entity which has been granted legal personhood, holding rights and responsibilities equivalent to a person. During your visit to this lush environment, you will have the unique opportunity to immerse yourself in Tūhoe history, language, culture and place. You will be hosted by local tribal communities to learn Tūhoe values and how this plays a major role across traditional and contemporary tribal life. This will include working with Tūhoe governance systems, community members and stakeholders to consider design proposals that engage with local opportunities. You will have the opportunity to respond to a number of proposed reinvigoration projects and community facilities within the villages (e.g. wellness centres, recycling and repurposing facilities, workshops, playgrounds and other recreation facilities, art galleries, Living Building Challenge home designs, village layouts, food production gardens, orchards and other landscaping).
APPROXIMATE COSTS
Return Flights: $700
Tūhoe accommodation, food and transfers: $700
Local Travel: $100
Accommodation in Wellington and Taupo: $100
Food and other living expenses: $300
Note: Prices listed are subject to change. Participating students will receive a one-off subsidy of $800 from the Faculty utilised towards student’s accommodation costs and may be eligible to receive a one off payment of up to $1,000 from Melbourne Global Mobility (conditions apply).
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), Architecture elective, or multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Architectural Engineering: ABPL90142 (Master of Architecture Studio C)
- Master of Landscape Architecture: ABPL90072 (Landscape Studio 5: Sustainable Urbanism), Landscape Architecture elective or multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Urban Design multidisciplinary elective
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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
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Identify and engage critically with specific cultural practices, and socio-technical traditions
- Think systematically and creatively and problem solve through their experiences of how local issues govern planning, design and construction processes in a particular location
- Successfully create and resolve a landscape, urban and/or building design of medium complexity
- Explore ecological and cultural systems across multiple scales to inform better planning and design strategies
- Communicate a complex design vision in a clear and professional manner
- Develop advanced design and communication skills to effectively generate, develop and present design proposals.
- Understand sustainability principles through a typical sequence of site and contextual analysis, site planning and detailed design
Generic skills
- Interdisciplinary teamwork
- Understanding and navigating social and cultural differences
- Knowledge transfer
- Organisational collaboration
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into one of the following courses:
- MC-ARCH Master of Architecture
- MC-ARCHENG Master of Architectural Engineering
- MC-LARCH Master of Landscape Architecture
- MC-URBDES Master of Urban Design
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
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Research for Tuhoe
| Early term | 10% |
Individual project brief
| Early term | 20% |
Individual design concept
| Mid term | 25% |
Individual final design
| At the end of the assessment period | 45% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Coordinators Gini Lee and Tanja Beer Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 90 hours including 3 days of intensive studios in the first week, 5-hr studios in weeks 2 & 3, intensive design studio in New Zealand and 3-hr studios in weeks 6 Total time commitment 340 hours Pre teaching start date 2 January 2019 Pre teaching requirements Familiarisation of Tuhoe values, communities, urban and architecture landscapes, through readings and design exercises available on LMS Teaching period 8 January 2019 to 15 February 2019 Last self-enrol date 26 November 2018 Census date 18 January 2019 Last date to withdraw without fail 1 February 2019 Assessment period ends 20 February 2019 Summer Term contact information
Gini Lee: virginia.lee@unimelb.edu.au
Tanja Beer: beer.t@unimelb.edu.au
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. Students may provisionally enrol via the Student Portal. You will be notified in writing by STOP 1 if you are selected.
Selection criteria: Selection is based upon expression of interest submitted in online application, and academic merit.
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.
- Off-campus study
This subject has an overseas component
Travelling Studio to Wellington and to the Tuhoe community, New Zealand
- Links to additional information
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 3 November 2022