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Advanced Planting Design (ABPL90173)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 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
Overview
Availability | Summer Term - Dual-Delivery |
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Fees | Look up fees |
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.
This subject may have a full day field trip.
This subject will involve the following software: Adobe Creative Suite, Autodesk 3DS Max, Rhinoceros, SketchUp, Makerbot Print. Details of software availability and pricing are captured at https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/graduate-research/resources/it-support#software
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: 31 January 2024
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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Assignment 1 ( group work) : Graphic and oral presentation
| Day 2 of teaching days | 20% |
Assignment 2 ( indvidual work): Graphic and oral presentation
| Day 4 of teaching days | 20% |
Assignment 3 ( indvidual work) : Graphic/folio
| Day 6 of teaching days | 40% |
Assignment 4( indvidual): folio submission
| End of the assessment period | 10% |
Class participation
| During the teaching period | 10% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Mode of delivery Dual-Delivery (Parkville) Contact hours 36 hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 24 January 2022 Pre teaching requirements reading materials will be available via LMS from DEC 2021 Teaching period 31 January 2022 to 16 February 2022 Last self-enrol date 25 January 2022 Census date 4 February 2022 Last date to withdraw without fail 11 February 2022 Assessment period ends 18 February 2022
Last updated: 31 January 2024
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 .
- 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: 31 January 2024