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Travelling Studio (Mysuru, India) (ABPL90296)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
Email: b.gardiner@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Summer Term |
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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 (MYSURU, INDIA)
Following its independence in 1947, from the 1950s to 70s India underwent a period of rapid change with the simultaneous reclamation of Indian national identity and the striving for inclusion in the western economically developed world. These forces coalesced in the architecture at the time, which simultaneously sought internationally modern characteristics but with reverence to the distinct Indian climate, cultural modes of occupation and available materials and technologies. With India’s unique structural conditions bound to its demographic, economic and cultural characteristics a challenge is presented to built environment design in formulating response strategies to India’s rapid expansion.
This travelling studio seeks to enquire how designers may offer a contribution in low-income, rapidly urbanising environments. It offers students the opportunity to learn, about India’s modernist residential typologies and the craft/trade-based systems and technologies that were adapted or discarded within a period of architectural transition. The purpose of the studio is to undertake research into a selection of crafts, trades, materials and technologies that supported India’s modernist housing; and to survey, analyse and design/document these to identify if they have a role to play in the contemporary context. It also offers the opportunity to investigate what happened to that industry and whether it is still economically, socially and environmentally possible to design and build utilising local craft/trade-based systems today. A key feature is to recognise the unique context under which buildings are made and the nature of the labour that carries out the task of bringing the design idea into a physical presence. The studio asks students if it is possible to consider the nature of this relationship and if designers have a role to play in facilitating social/technical opportunity and how this opportunity may be integrated into design.
APPROXIMATE COSTS
Return Flights: $1500
Accommodation: $750 (13 nights, up to $55 per night)
Local Travel: $150
Living expenses (meals and incidentals): $275 (11 days, up to $25 per day)
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) or Architecture specialisation elective or multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Construction: multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Landscape Architecture: Landscape Architecture specialisation elective, or multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Urban Design: Urban Design specialisation elective
- Master of Urban Planning: 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
Upon successful completion of this subject, students should have the ability:
- To foster an understanding between social programs and spatial form.
- 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.
- To assimilate research-based investigation into design responses that have broader flexible and adaptable application accounting for the socio-technical nature of design and construction.
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
Admission into one of the following courses:
- MC-ARCH Master of Architecture
- MC-CM Master of Construction Management
- MC-LARCH Master of Landscape Architecture
- MC-URBDES Master of Urban Design
- MC-URPL Master of Urban Planning
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
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Health and Safety Briefing Hurdle requirement: All enrolled students must attend the Health and Safety briefing | Early in the teaching period | N/A |
Active class participation with weekly entry to individual reflective journal, equivalent to 1500 words, due in hard copy and digital format. Progressive review during studio sessions and as final submission at the end of the assessment period (15%). Addresses all ILOs.
| Throughout the teaching period | 15% |
Research presentation - Individual contributions into a cohesive group presentation on preliminary research and thematic analysis related to studio objectives. Pre-trip presentation (10%). Addresses all ILOs
| Early in the teaching period | 10% |
Individual research-based design response development schemas: Towards end of travel period in India (15%). Addresses all ILOs.
| During the teaching period | 15% |
Research design synthesis – building on preliminary research and fieldwork and development of schematic design proposals. Demonstration of design output may include physical and digital models, sketches, drawings, analytical diagrams, sketches. Interim presentation on return to Melbourne (20%). Addresses all ILOs.
| Second half of the teaching period | 20% |
Research-design synthesis and final design - Building on fieldwork and schematic design developed throughout semester and demonstrating design output that may include physical and digital models, sketches, drawings, analytical diagrams, sketches. Design output that may include physical models, drawings, analytical diagrams, sketches, and short films, due in the assessment period (40%). Addresses all ILOs.
| End of the assessment period | 40% |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Principal coordinator Blair Gardiner Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 6 hours of studios per week in Melbourne, and intensive study while overseas. Total time commitment 340 hours Pre teaching start date 16 December 2019 Pre teaching requirements Self-directed preparatory desktop research related to studio objectives Teaching period 13 January 2020 to 9 April 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 December 2019 Census date 17 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 13 March 2020 Assessment period ends 24 April 2020 Summer Term contact information
Email: b.gardiner@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
220 hours in addition to contact hours
Additional delivery details
Quota: 16
This subject is a quota subject and places are limited. Places are not guaranteed until selection is completed. You will be notified in writing if you are selected.
Selection criteria: Selection is based upon expression of interest submitted in online application form via the EDSC Travelling Studio page., academic merit, design portfolio and interview.
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
Overseas Participation Dates:
03 February 2020 to 14 February 2020, inclusive.
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
The studio incorporates intensive study time in Mysore, India between 03 February 2020 and 14 February 2020, inclusive.
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
Additional information for this subject
Requires Subject Coordinator approval.
- 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