Placemaking : Design for Landscape (LARC90001)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5Not available in 2025
About this subject
Overview
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The Placemaking for Landscape is an elective studio. It will establish an interdisciplinary practice-type environment to work with community, traders and Council to design the transformation of an underutilized area in Newport through application of placemaking principles and guidelines. The studio subject site, Market Street to Payne Reserve, has the potential to reconnect and reinvigorate divided public areas, as well as itself providing a valued community space. Using placemaking and design interventions, the studio will address the challenges and opportunities in creating a vibrant community space. The studio will also feed into community processes linking to the Art and Industry Festival to be held in the area in November 2018. The interdisciplinary studio will bring together Landscape Architecture with Architecture and Urban Planning disciplines to apply placemaking, community engagement, urban planning and design thinking.
Note: Classes will be held in the Newport Community Hub, Paine Reserve, Mason St, Newport on 5, 8, 15, 19, 22, 25 January, and 2, 5, 12 February 2018. There will also be student presentations to the local community on 21 February 2018
Intended learning outcomes
- Undertake visual and text based analysis of sites and conceptual thinking informed by diverse practice;
- Investigate how design can be generated from community engagement
- Undertake research development, extended critical thinking and design inquiry into the inner city urban realm;
- Investigate contemporary landscape design to inform placemaking strategies;
- Undertake collaborative research leading in an interdisciplinary lab format to implement design techniques and social and environmental perspectives into placemaking approaches;
- Present design representation of both conceptual and tangible design work for a project that will be realised. This will include diagrams, text, verbal explanation and high quality drawing;
- Exhibit and present proposals to the local council and local community outcome, curated and professionally mounted to include poster designs and implementation schemes
Generic skills
- • Ability to analyse ecological, political, social and cultural contexts towards formulating innovative programs for speculative placemaking design. • Creative response and effective communication models for complex problems including community consultation and presentation. • Critical analysis of design precedents. • Application of graphic techniques encompassing mapping, diagrams, virtual and physical models to analyse, design and communicate.
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
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: 4 March 2025
Assessment
| Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Site survey and concept strategy: group preparation of survey and analysis drawings, group proposal for concept strategy through visualisations, explanatory text and oral presentations day 3 of workshop | Day 3 | 30% |
Developed design strategies presentation: individual development of design strategies within overall group proposals through visualisations, explanatory text and oral presentations | Final afternoon of workshop | 70% |
| Hurdle requirement: Students must attend 75% of studios and pass the end of semester final oral and exhibition presentation. | N/A |
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Dates & times
Not available in 2025
Last updated: 4 March 2025
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Barton, H., Thompson, S., Grant, M., and Burgess S. (Eds) 2015 The Routledge Handbook of Planning for Health and Well-Being: Shaping a sustainable and healthy future (London: Routledge).
Beza, B. B. (2016). The role of deliberative planning in translating best practice into good practice: from placeless-ness to placemaking. Planning Theory and Practice, 17(2), 244-263.
Co Design Studio, Tactical urbanism. Australia and New Zealand https://codesignstudio.com.au/
Gehl, Jan and Svarre, Birgitte, 2013, How to study public life, Washington: Island Press
Lynch, K. (1971). Site planning (2nd ed.). Cambridge: M.I.T. Press.
Raymond, C. M., Frantzeskaki, N., Kabisch, N., Berry, P., Breil, M., Nita, M. R., . . . Calfapietra, C. (2017). A framework for assessing and implementing the co-benefits of nature-based solutions in urban areas.Environmental Science and Policy, 77, 15-24. doi:10.1016/j.envsci.2017.07.008
Whyte, W. H. (2001). The social life of small urban spaces. New York: Project for Public Spaces
Last updated: 4 March 2025