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Urban Eco Acupuncture Studio (ABPL90111)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 25Not available in 2022
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Overview
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Students will take part in an international studio in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden, in collaboration with students and academics from the Technical University of Delft and the Alto Design Factory in Leeuwarden. This studio will address the strategic objectives laid out by the City of Leeuwarden for the development of a resilient and socially innovative city. We will focus on 3-4 urban sites. The sites have been selected by the city as key sites for experimenting with ideas about new urban infrastructure and new spatial typologies and systems to support the city and its population in the face of economic and climatic change. The design projects include: Urban interventions for public life and smarter urban parks; Experimental distributed manufacturing precincts; Distributed systems of provision focused on resilient energy technologies; New models of high density mixed living.
The studio aims to bring together students from Architecture, Urban Design, and Landscape Architecture 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.
This studio will introduce students to the unique and powerful design culture currently operating in the Netherlands. This Dutch design thinking is uniquely suited to addressing complex environmental and urban problems. The students will work directly with Dutch designers and clients and will work through design responses and solutions as their learning journey. We have discovered that it is by being immersed within a design challenge context that the students fully appreciate the subtle complexity of those challenges and the required responses. This travelling design studio will take in the disciplinary expertise of architectural, industrial and interior design within a frame work of architectural, landscape and urban design strategies.
Students will develop design interventions to transform the existing built environment and systems of provision (energy, water, food, transport, information) for a sustainable, low carbon, resilient future. What steps must be taken today to get there? The aim is to identify opportunities that can become sites of design intervention to shift the path of innovation on a new trajectory: towards sustainable, resilient conditions. We will also explore Rotterdam, one of the world’s pre-eminent architectural and design laboratories.
APPROXIMATE COSTS
Travel: $3,000
Accommodation: Students are to be located in shared accommodation $1,050 (approx.)
Living expenses (meals and incidentals): $650
Intended learning outcomes
- Build a trans-disciplinary understanding of the role of design within a complex ‘wicked problem’ framework
- Learn to engage with, understand and communicate to ‘live’ clients
- Exposure to new learning environments
- Increased capacity to understand and navigate other cultures
- Exposure to other cultures as means of stimulating creativity and critical thinking
- Introduction to international practice
- Learn to communicate with other design and consulting disciplines
Generic skills
- Interdisciplinary teamwork.
- Understanding and navigating social and cultural difference.
- Knowledge transfer.
- Organisational collaboration.
- Managing risk.
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Admission into one of the following:
- MC-ARCH Master of Architecture
- 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: 24 January 2023
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
Group Project (3 or 4 students) (equivalent to 500 words per student): Research into selected urban territory. Identify historical, technical and contextual factors; requiring 15 hours of work per student; due week 4
| Week 4 | 5% |
Group Project (3 or 4 students) (equivalent to 1000 words per student): Research into selected cultural and technical domain and report on key opportunities; requires 30 hours of work per student in researching and formatting research for clear presentation; due week 6
| Week 6 | 10% |
Group Project (2 students): Project brief and schematic design. Design presentation to studio teachers and a panel from the local council, requiring 90-100 hours of work per student. Students will present their work in progress (10 minutes oral presentation, equivalent to 1000 words) comprising physical and digital models, drawings and animations as suited to their design intentions (equivalent to 2000 words)
| At the end of the overseas trip | 30% |
Individual Project: Final design presentation to studio teachers and academic review panel at MSD, requiring 160-170 hours of work. Students will present their final design work comprising physical and digital models, drawings and animations as suited to their design intentions. Format: 10-15 minute presentation with accompanying models, drawings and 30 slides; due the first week of examination period
| During the examination period | 55% |
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
Not available in 2022
Time commitment details
340 hours
Additional delivery details
Quota: 12
This subject is a quota subject and places are limited. You will be notified in writing by Stop 1 if you are selected.
Selection criteria: Selection is based upon timely submission of a personal statement, folio and academic merit.
Students will be expected to attend pre-trip and post-trip seminars and also a compulsory pre-trip Occupational, Health & Safety session.
Last updated: 24 January 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- 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: 24 January 2023