89141 Perception Space Materials: Research and Conceptualisation

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UTS: Design, Architecture and Building: Design
Credit points: 12 cp

Subject level:

Postgraduate

Result type: Grade and marks

Description

This is the first subject in the Perception Space Materials major. This subject is based on a series of cognitive week-by-week research and conceptual projects to develop material thinking towards an innovative spatial practice. Through the studio environment, projects will be aimed at forwarding individual perceptions to the analysis of site in developing site-responsive programs. Design will be investigated through spatial experiencing and programing, function and occupation, surface and texture. Over the course of the three sessions, participants in this major will explore the conceptualisation of design and practice and associated visual techniques including: 2D & 3D spatial constructions, filmic, diagrammatic and schematic mappings: creating a matrix of design potentials feeding into the major project and final dissertation.

Subject learning objectives (SLOs)

On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:

01.	Demonstrate a capacity to take autonomous responsibility for actions and decisions
02.	Demonstrate a capacity to develop and establish an informed and ethical understanding and/or position toward social, technical and environmental practices
03.	Demonstrate a capacity to position work within an extended disciplinary context
04.	Demonstrate a capacity to recognise cultural diversity including indigenous, gender and multicultural perspectives
05.	Demonstrate a capacity to work cooperatively as part of a team, initiate partnerships with others, take a leadership role when required
06.	Demonstrate a capacity to communicate ideas effectively including oral, written, visual, analogue and digital presentations (2D and 3D)
07.	Demonstrate a capacity to constructively engage with subject learning activities
08.	Demonstrate a capacity to engage in, and constructively contribute to debate, peer learning and critique
09.	Demonstrate a capacity to apply experimentation in thinking and practice as a means toward developing an individual design approach
10.	Demonstrate a capacity to understand and generate design propositions across a diverse range of design scenarios and negotiate final propositions with multiple stakeholders
11.	Demonstrate a capacity to initiate and execute meaningful self-directed iterative processes
12.	Demonstrate a capacity to produce inspirational responses that exemplify integration and extension of learning experiences
13.	Demonstrate a capacity to innovatively use a variety of design technologies and materials
14.	Demonstrate a capacity to apply and utilise appropriate communication techniques, knowledge and understanding to enable practical applications in spatial design
15.	Demonstrate a capacity to rigorously explore, apply and extend multiple representational techniques
16.	Demonstrate a capacity to apply and deploy disciplinary learning, with a continuing commitment to professional development
17.	Demonstrate a capacity to demonstrate knowledge of current interior and spatial design practice
18.	Demonstrate a capacity to source, evaluate and utilise appropriate academic and professional references
19.	Demonstrate a capacity to independently select and apply appropriate research methodologies to carry out investigative study
20.	Demonstrate a capacity to analyse, formulate and synthesise complex ideas, arguments and rationales and use initiative to explore alternatives
21.	Demonstrate a capacity to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of interior and spatial design precedent and to contextualise one's work within the extended discipline
22.	Demonstrate a capacity to reflect on, challenge and interrogate theoretical speculation

Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)

This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:

Value for the designer's role as a responsible global citizen, including alertness to the impact of design on environmental ecologies and issues of social justice (A.1)
A commitment to ethical acknowledgement of sources and the work of others (A.2)
Sensitivity to social and cultural diversity (A.3)
Professional attitude to clarity, accuracy and effectiveness of communication (C.1)
Capacity to work flexibly within a team and make a positive contribution to team dynamics (C.2)
Ability to adapt communication style to context (C.3)
Capacity for perceptive concept development (I.1)
Ability to critically appraise, develop or redirect design ideas (I.2)
Ability to re-imagine human practices and human-technology relations (I.3)
Ability to actively and independently develop new skills, knowledge and understanding (P.1)
Possession of a developed aesthetic sensibility (P.2)
Possession of craft skills appropriate to the discipline (P.3)
Ability to develop well-supported arguments and rationales (R.1)
Ability to analyse and synthesise complex ideas (R.2)
A disposition to adopt practices and approaches that embed critical reflection (R.3)

Assessment

Assessment task 1: Design Study 1 - 1st presentation 20%

Objective(s):	This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 01, 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 11, 12, 15 and 18 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): .3, A.1, A.2, A.3, C.1, I.1, I.3, P.1, R.1 and R.2
Weight:	20%
Length:	Project presentation 15 mins 15mins feedback from panel

Objective(s):

This task addresses the following subject learning objectives:

01, 02, 03, 04, 07, 08, 11, 12, 15 and 18

This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.):

.3, A.1, A.2, A.3, C.1, I.1, I.3, P.1, R.1 and R.2

Weight:

20%

Length:

Project presentation 15 mins

15mins feedback from panel

Assessment task 2: Design Study 2 - interim presentation 30%

Objective(s):	This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 03, 05, 10, 13 and 19 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): .4, A.1, C.2, I.1 and I.2
Weight:	30%
Length:	15min presentation followed by 15min feedback
Criteria:

Assessment task 3: Final Presentation - Design Studies and Project Proposal

Objective(s):	This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 06, 09, 14, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 22 This task also addresses the following course intended learning outcomes that are linked with a code to indicate one of the five CAPRI graduate attribute categories (e.g. C.1, A.3, P.4, etc.): .2, .4, .4, C.3, I.3, P.2, P.3 and R.3
Weight:	50%
Length:	20min presentation followed by 15 min feedback from invited panel
Criteria:

Required texts

Kate Orff, Richard Misrach 2012, Petrol Chemical America, Aperture Foundation, New York.

Stephanie LeMenager 2012, The Aesthetics of Petroleum, after Oil!, American Literary History, vol. 24, no. 1, pp. 59–86, Oxford University Press.

Timothy Mitchell, 2011 Carbon Democracy - political power in the age of oil, Verso London.

Isabelle Stengers 2015, In Catastrophic Times: Resisting the Coming Barbarism, trans. Andrew Goffey Meson Press, Leuphana University of Lüneburg.

Douglas J. Harris 2012 A Guide to Energy Management in Buildings, Spon Press London.

Mark Wigley 2006, Recycling Recycling, Interstices 4 Imagining the Present, Routeldge New York.

Galina Tachieva 2010, SPRAWL REPAIR MANUAL, Island Press, Washington.

Williams, Raymond 1976, Keywords – a Vocabulary of Culture and Society.

Max Nettlau 1996, A Short History of Anarchism trans. by Ida Pilat Isea, Freedom Press London.

Carolin Wiedemann & Soenke Zehle 2012, Depletion Design: A Glossary Of Network Ecologies INC Publications Amsterdam.

Martin Dodge 2009, Rethinking Maps - New frontiers in cartographic theory, Routledge London.

Stan Allen, Artificial Ecology NAI Publishers Rotterdam.

Denis Cosgrove (ed.) 1999, MAPPINGS Reaktion Books London.

Allen, S. & Agrest, D. 2000, ‘Mapping the Unmappable’: On Notation”, Practice: Architecture, Technique and

Representation, G+B Arts International, Amsterdam, pp. 30-45.

Williams, Raymond 1976, Keywords – a Vocabulary of Culture and Society

Toland, A. 2012, 'D.I.Y. Eye in the Sky', Cabinet: A Quarterly of Art and Culture, vol. Summer 2010, no. 46

Allen, S. & Agrest, D. 2000, ‘Mapping the Unmappable’: On Notation”, Practice: Architecture, Technique and

Representation, G+B Arts International, Amsterdam, pp. 30-45.

Spuybroek, L. 2004, ‘The Structure of Vagueness’ NOX: Machining Architecture, Thames & Hudson, London, pp. 352-359

Amoroso, N. 2010, ‘Graphic Integrity and Mapping Complexity: The Works of Lynch, Wurman and Tufte’,The

Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles, Routledge Taylor & Francis, London & New York, pp. 41-67.

Corner, James. 1996, Taking Measures across the American Landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Corner, James. 1999, Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Ed. Clare Hayden and Heinke Jenssen. 1996, Graphis Diagram 2, Graphis Inc., New York

Ed. Robert Klanten, Nicolas Bourquin, Thibaud Tissot, and Sven Ehmann. 2006, Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design, Gestaltan, Berlin

Ed. McCarter, Robert, 1987. Pamphlet Architecture No. 12: Building; Machines, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Smout Allen, 2007. Pamphlet Architecture No. 28: Augmented Landscapes, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Ed. Wilkins, Gretchen, 2010. Distributed Urbanism: Cities after Google Earth, Routledge, New York

Ramirez-Lovering, Diego, 2008. Opportunistic Urbanism, RMIT University Press, Melbourne

Kaijima, Kuroda, Tsukamoto, 2006. Made in Tokyo, Kajima Institute Publishing, Tokyo

Recommended texts

Associated Texts

Spuybroek, L. 2004, ‘The Structure of Vagueness’ NOX: Machining Architecture, Thames & Hudson, London, pp. 352-359

Amoroso, N. 2010, ‘Graphic Integrity and Mapping Complexity: The Works of Lynch, Wurman and Tufte’, The

Exposed City: Mapping the Urban Invisibles, Routledge Taylor & Francis, London & New York, pp. 41-67.

Corner, James 1996, Taking Measures across the American Landscape, Yale University Press, New Haven and London.

Corner, James 1999, Recovering Landscape: Essays in Contemporary Landscape Architecture, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Ed. Clare Hayden and Heinke Jenssen. 1996, Graphis Diagram 2, Graphis Inc., New York

Ed. Robert Klanten, Nicolas Bourquin, Thibaud Tissot, and Sven Ehmann. 2006, Data Flow: Visualising Information in Graphic Design, Gestaltan, Berlin.

Ed. McCarter, Robert, 1987. Pamphlet Architecture No. 12: Building; Machines, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Smout Allen, 2007. Pamphlet Architecture No. 28: Augmented Landscapes, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.

Dylan Trigg, 2006, The Aesthetics of Decay Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason

Peter Lang, New York.

Ed. Wilkins, Gretchen, 2010. Distributed Urbanism: Cities after Google Earth, Routledge, New York

Ramirez-Lovering, Diego, 2008. Opportunistic Urbanism, RMIT University Press, Melbourne.