Travelling Studio (Philippines) (ABPL90410)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25On Campus (Parkville)
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About this subject
Contact information
January
Prof. Kim Dovey: dovey@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Reden Recio: redento.recio@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) | January |
|---|---|
| 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 (PHILIPPINES)
This studio facilitates interdisciplinary teaching and learning approaches in the fields of architecture, urban design, urban planning and landscape architecture. It will bring together staff and students of the Melbourne School of Design and the University of the Philippines. These engagements will enable students to understand and to develop design and planning responses to informal urbanism as a global phenomenon. Students will undertake analysis and design/planning inventions on one or more of the following issues: informal settlement, in-situ upgrading, citizen-based planning, informal land tenure, informal transport, walkability, informal street trading and governance.
These projects will be focused on the North Triangle area of Manila (14°39'07.93" N 121°02'10.38" E) and the settlement of San Roque with its associated transit networks, trading and employment opportunities. We will work with the San Roque community (and the San Roque Alliance) who seek help in exploring visions for on-site redevelopment with upgraded infrastructure and maintenance of livelihoods including street vending and transport. This is a community faced with forced eviction from houses they own, land they have occupied and livelihoods they have developed over 40 years. The focus of particular student projects may include community planning, housing, community buildings, infrastructure, open space, walkable access networks, governance frameworks and political strategies.
This subject will:
• Provide students with opportunities for cross-cultural, interdisciplinary education through immersion and active collaboration with local academics, students, planners, practitioners and community members.
• Provide student with opportunities to understand the complexities and multiple, conflicting perceptions of informal urbanism in Asian cities as both positive and negative contributors to urban life and vibrancy.
• Expose students to real-life problems confronted by inhabitants of informal settlement, and discover how these issues are currently addressed by the city’s planners and designers.
• Provide students with the opportunity to assess the role of design professions in understanding the problems/issues associated with informal urbanism.
APPROXIMATE COSTS
Return Flights: $800
Accommodation: $800 (13 night, up to $61.50 per night)
Local Travel: $20
Living expenses (meals and incidentals): $550 (11 days, $50 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: ABPL90143 (Master of Architecture Studio D), ABPL90115 (Master of Architecture Studio E), Architecture specialisation (discipline) elective, multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Construction Management: multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Landscape Architecture: ABPL90170 Landscape Studio 4: Strategies [with prerequisite ABPL90319 GIS in Planning, Design and Development], ABPL90072 Landscape Studio 5: Sustainable Urbanism, Landscape Architecture specialisation (discipline) elective, multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Property: multidisciplinary elective
- Master of Urban Design: ABPL90061 Urban Design Studio A, ABPL90273 Urban Design Studio B, ABPL90389 Urban Design Studio C, Urban Design specialisation (discipline) elective
- Master of Urban Planning: Urban Planning specialisation (discipline) elective, 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
At the conclusion of this studio students will be able to:
- analyse and apply knowledge of the broad relations of formal and informal urbanism in the production of the city
- analyse and apply knowledge of the challenges of urban governance in relation to informal settlement, street trading and transport
- analyse and apply knowledge of the social, spatial and economic context of informal trading and its relations to formal shops, pedestrian flows and informal public transport.
- analyse and apply knowledge of the social, spatial, morphological and economic factors of informal settlement and the ways it encroaches on and within the formal city.
- analyse and apply knowledge of how various urban stakeholders (city officials, development NGOs and grassroots organizations) manage the issues involving informal settlement, street trading and transport.
- analyse and apply knowledge of how to apply understanding of urban informality gained from this studio to any other city, including more formal cities of the Global North.
Generic skills
- Interdisciplinary teamwork
- Understanding and navigating social and cultural differences
- Knowledge transfer
- Organisational collaboration
- Managing risk
Last updated: 30 October 2023
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-PROP Master of Property
- MC-URBDES Master of Urban Design
- MC-URPL Master of Urban Planning
ABPL90319 GIS in Planning, Design and Development is a prerequisite where this subject is undertaken as a replacement of ABPL90170 Landscape Studio 4: Strategies
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: 30 October 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|
Health and Safety Briefing Hurdle requirement: All enrolled students must attend the Health and Safety briefing | Early in the teaching period | N/A |
Class participation and engagement (10%). A journal will be kept by each student and submitted as evident of such engagement, 1000 words equivalent. Addresses all ILOs.
| Throughout the teaching period | 10% |
Individual class presentation of literature review, 1000 words equivalent (10%). Assessment will be based on the degree of coverage of the required reading material and level of engagement with the full range of ideas presented. Addresses all ILOs.
| Early in the teaching period | 10% |
Individual class presentation of preliminary mapping of the key urban sites, including a preliminary analysis of key design issues, 1000 words equivalent (10%). Addresses all ILOs.
| Early in the teaching period | 10% |
Group project (in a group of 2 or 3) which will be based on contributions to the range of tasks set during the field trip and presentations of this work to community and NGOs, 4000 words equivalent (40%). Addresses all ILOs.
| During the teaching period | 40% |
Final group presentation (in a group of 2 or 3) in digital format, 1500 words equivalent (15%) due April 6-9. Assessment will be primarily on the basis of submitted work in both graphic and written form, on analytic depth, design quality and exhibition standard presentation. Addresses all ILOs.
| End of the teaching period | 15% |
Individual final report in digital format, 1500 words equivalent (15%) due on April 17. Assessment will be primarily on the basis of submitted work in both graphic and written form, on analytic depth, design quality and exhibition standard presentation. Addresses all ILOs.
| End of the assessment period | 15% |
Last updated: 30 October 2023
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- January
Principal coordinator Kim Dovey Coordinator Redento Recio Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours Up to 17 hours of seminar time during the period of 28th January to 8th February, intensive study whilst in the Philippines, and one 3-hour studio per week from 2nd March to 9th April. Total time commitment 340 hours Teaching period 28 January 2020 to 17 April 2020 Last self-enrol date 30 November 2019 Census date 14 February 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 20 March 2020 Assessment period ends 17 April 2020 January contact information
Prof. Kim Dovey: dovey@unimelb.edu.au
Dr. Reden Recio: redento.recio@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
225 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
- Academic merit based on discipline. Enrolment from a mix of disciplines is sought including at least Urban Design, Architecture and Urban Planning.
- 200-word statement including evidence of commitment, submitted in online application form via the EDSC Travelling Studio page.
For detailed information on the subject application process and due dates, refer to the EDSC Quota Subjects webpage: http://edsc.unimelb.edu.au/quota-subjects
Overseas participation dates:
13th to 23rd February, inclusive.
Last updated: 30 October 2023
Further information
- Texts
- Off-campus study
- Links to additional information
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
Last updated: 30 October 2023