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Edible Urban Futures (ABPL90446)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
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Winter Term
Overview
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Food security is of growing concern globally. While much of the focus is on agricultural and logistic industries, professionals in the built environment must understand how their own work affects food security issues and how design can contribute to enhancing food security locally.
By engaging in collaborations between institutions around the world, this subject will allow students to gain a range of local perspectives on the challenge. Students will learn that global problems often require very local solutions that can be informed by applicable lessons in other locales.
In particular, students will develop a depth of knowledge regarding food security and the implications for the built environment, develop their abilities to explain the theoretical foundations of this issue and will select and apply appropriate methodologies when designing for food security. These learnings are useful for design more broadly.
This will be a multidisciplinary elective, in which students will work with experts from disciplines collaboratively to learn about different approaches to address the similar issues across the globe. The goal of this subject is to develop each student’s ability to listen and learn from peers while drawing on the global body of research; additionally, the subject will be an opportunity to establish future collaborations and research activities.
Students from the partner institutions will be working in mixed teams. They will focus on data collection, analysis, and interpretation to develop proposals and communicate these to target audiences. They will be asked to communicate by means of an information campaign in the form of videos, pamphlets, or posters, describing challenges, threats, and solutions regarding food securities.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Demonstrate a depth of knowledge regarding food security and the implications for the built environment .
- Explain the theoretical foundations of food security and the implications for the built environment .
- Select and apply appropriate methodologies when designing for food security .
Generic skills
- Analysis and synthesis of data to prepare proposals.
- Evaluation of existing knowledge.
- The ability to efficiently locate data and to analyse, interpret and communicate effectively.
- The ability to work in multidisciplinary teams.
- Ability to work with students spread across the world, on 5 different continents.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
Corequisites
Non-allowed subjects
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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Data presentation
| Week 1 | 20% |
Short essaay
| Week 2 | 20% |
Final video and oral presentation
| End of the teaching period | 60% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Winter Term
Coordinator Justyna Karakiewicz Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 6 hours of lectures and 12 hours tutorials per week Total time commitment 165 hours Teaching period 24 June 2024 to 12 July 2024 Last self-enrol date 27 June 2024 Census date 28 June 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 8 July 2024 Assessment period ends 12 July 2024 Winter Term contact information
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
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Last updated: 31 January 2024