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Installations and Happenings (ABPL30069)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5Dual-Delivery (Parkville)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
November
Overview
Availability | November - Dual-Delivery |
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Installations and Happenings forms part of the Event Design specialisation.
This subject explores how small-scale events and temporary interventions can help designers and other stakeholder to reimagine public spaces. The subject’s examples include street and land art, pop-up parks, temporary installations, guerrilla gardens, and street performances. These precedents provide opportunities to examine a diversity of political tactics and place-making tools that designer-citizens can use to question, activate, and revitalise urban environments. The subject consists of lectures and seminars with accompanying readings, workshops, site-specific research, experience-based tasks, and design experiments. Students will have an opportunity to explore hands-on strategies for working at a variety of sites and communities. These strategies will uncover, critiques, and reinvent social, cultural, environmental, and more-than-human conditions of place. This research will inspire students to design and test spatial interventions that can foster dialogue, build social capital, and address critical global-to-local issues.
Intended learning outcomes
- Understand and articulate the histories, contemporary policies and design praxis governing installations and happenings in relation to public urban space;
- Strategically use a range of theories (performative, artistic, environmental, historical, philosophical, scientific, etc.) to make them relevant to the task at hand;
- Propose strategies, plans, designs and tactics to foster dialogue and address critical community issues.
- Develop a basic understanding of organisational and logistical issues, including health and safety, in relation to urban interventions and public events
- Analyse the quality of design outcomes in reference to objectives and criteria
- Effectively document and communicate the research and development of a design project from concept to implementation, and reflect on the outcome.
Generic skills
- Cognitive skills to review critically, analyse, consolidate and synthesise knowledge about their discipline;
- Cognitive and technical skills to demonstrate a broad understanding of design with depth in at least one discipline;
- Cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving design problems with intellectual independence;
- Communication skills to present a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas;
- Collaboration skills to participate in team work through involvement in syndicate groups and group discussions.
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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ARCH10001 | Foundations of Design: Representation |
Semester 2 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
Semester 1 (Dual-Delivery - Parkville)
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12.5 |
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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Precedent. Students will analyse one precedent event. 2 min video, (individual work)
| Week 1 | 10% |
Proposal (group work). Students will analyse a place and propose an event. 2 min video, 250-word research statement, 250-word script, 10-frame storyboard, models, or props ( in total,equivalent of 800 words per student).
| Week 2 | 20% |
Design and Event ( group work). Students will develop and implement their proposal. 5 min video (equivalent of 800 words per student).
| Week 3 | 20% |
Analysis. Students will produce a 2000-word essay, (individual work)
| Week 4 | 50% |
Additional details
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
- November
Principal coordinator Stanislav Roudavski Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 22 November 2021 to 10 December 2021 Last self-enrol date 25 November 2021 Census date 3 December 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 10 December 2021 Assessment period ends 15 December 2021 November contact information
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Recommended texts and other resources
- Bishop, Claire. Installation Art: A Critical History. Reprinting. 2005. Reprint, London: Tate, 2012.
- Feireiss, Kristin, and Oliver G. Hamm, eds. Transforming Cities: Urban Interventions in Public Space. Berlin: Jovis, 2015.
- Glimcher, Mildred, and Robert R. McElroy. Happenings: New York, 1958-1963. New York: Monacelli Press, 2012.
- Fuad-Luke, Alastair. Design Activism: Beautiful Strangeness for a Sustainable World. London, UK: Earthscan, 2009.
- Klanten, Robert, and Matthias Hübner, eds. Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces. Berlin: Gestalten, 2010.
- Lerner, Jaime, Mac Margolis, Peter Muello, and Ariadne Daher. Urban Acupuncture. Washington: Island Press, 2014.
- McKinney, Joslin, and Scott Palmer, eds. Scenography Expanded: An Introduction to Contemporary Performance Design. London: Bloomsbury, 2017.
- Rugg, Judith. Exploring Site-Specific Art: Issues of Space and Internationalism. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010.
- Spring, Jenny Moussa, Florentijn Hofman, and Christian L. Frock. Unexpected Art: Serendipitous Installations, Site-Specific Works, and Surprising Interventions. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2015.
- Thorpe, Ann. Architecture and Design Versus Consumerism: How Design Activism Confronts Growth. Abingdon: Earthscan, 2012.
Last updated: 3 November 2022