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Advanced Planting Design (ABPL90173)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2021
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Overview
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This is a studio-based elective subject that enables students to develop an advanced planting design methodology. Plant characteristics are examined as a material for their uses and effects as an integral component of landscape architecture design. A site-specific design response is formed by addressing environmental, social, cultural and ecological criteria. Strategic approaches are explored through a series of lectures, practice-based case studies, and workshops. A field trip and site visits are included to promote critical reflection and evaluation of planting in built and natural landscapes. Design exercises are staged to develop a whole life-cycle approach to the planting design process, included: collection and exchange of information; development of a plant selection matrix; generation and testing of concepts; production of a detail design proposition; and, devising feedbacking mechanisms. The subject aims to provide students with skills and appreciation for ongoing learning and working with plants as a lively, evolving material in landscape architecture design practice.
Subject may have a full day field trip .
Intended learning outcomes
Having completed this subject it is expected that the student be able to:
- Engage with plants as a material for exploring design effects and uses in landscape architecture design.
- Analyse environmental, social, cultural and ecological factors for site-specific design responses.
- Explore performative techniques in generating, testing and evolving the role of plants as design elements.
- Develop a whole life-cycle approach to building and sharing knowledge about plants as living systems in landscape architecture practice.
- Expand critical perspectives by examining plant performance in contemporary landscapes.
Generic skills
- Information gathering, exchanging and critical synthesis
- Accurate use of technical horticultural and design terminology
- Ability to analyse multiple site aspects of landscape contexts towards formulating design schemes
- Creative response and effective written, verbal and visual techniques for communication of complex ideas
- Application of graphic techniques encompassing data collection, mapping, diagrams and digital models to analyse, design and communicate
- Application of theories or design approaches to critically reflecting design drivers
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into one of the following courses:
MC-LARCH Master of Landscape Architecture
MC-LARCH2Y Master of Landscape Architecture (200 points)
MC-LARCH3Y Master of Landscape Architecture (300 points)
OR
Code | Name | Teaching period | Credit Points |
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HORT20026 | Designing with Plants | No longer available |
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
705-318 Advanced Planning
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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A series of 3 graphically presented design including 5 minutes oral presentation, each equivalent to 1000 words, weeks 3, 6 and 12 (20% each)
| From Week 3 to Week 12 | 60% |
Pin-up / feedback session, Graphic and 2 minutes presentation totally equivalent to 500 words
| Week 9 | 10% |
Graphic/folio
| Week 12 | 20% |
Class participation, group project engagement peer review 5%, and reading materials 5%. | 10% | |
Hurdle requirement: Attendance and participation in 75% of the classes is also a mandatory requirement | N/A |
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Dates & times
Not available in 2021
Last updated: 3 November 2022
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Thompson, Paul, Australian Planting Design, CSIRO Publishing, 2012 (electronic source available through Unimelb library).
Handreck, Kevin, Good Gardens With Less Water, CSIRO Publishing, 2008 (electronic source available through Unimelb library).Recommended texts and other resources
The planting design handbook. By Nick Robinson
Professional planting design: an architectural and horticultural approach for creating mixed bed planting. By Scott C. Scarfone
Planting design: gardens in time and space. By Piet Oudolf and Noel Kingsbury
Planting design. By Theodore D. Walker
Elements of planting design. By Richard L. Austin
- Subject notes
Subject may have a field trip .
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Master of Landscape Architecture - 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