88621 Global Studio: Interior Architecture A
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Credit points: 6 cp
Result type: Grade and marks
Requisite(s): 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10271 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10272 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of International Studies OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10322 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10004 Bachelor of Design Architecture OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10325 Bachelor of Design Architecture Bachelor of Creative Intelligence and Innovation OR 48 credit points of completed study in spk(s): C10423 Bachelor of Design Interior Architecture Bachelor of Languages and Cultures
Description
Using investigative research and documentation skills, students will survey and map urban and public space. This survey will challenge the idea of publicness, in relation to what is assumed “inside” or “outside”, by connecting through maps and various geographies of the urban. From this study, students will construct a conceptual representation of the “public interior”, that visualises the boundaries, thresholds, and spatial systems, that operate across both the inside and outside realms of the urban.
The global studio program provides intensive studio learning through cross-cultural education and collaborative learning. The program encourages interdisciplinary learning and offers an expanded studio environment, in which students discover and synthesise new technical and conceptual skills from multiple disciplines within the Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building.
Subject learning objectives (SLOs)
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
| 1. | Engage in rigorous methods of analysis through contextural observation |
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| 2. | Engage with and understand cultural diversity |
| 3. | Engage with ideas of event, programme and spatial organisation |
| 4. | Develop formal and informal methods of visual and verbal communication and presentation |
| 5. | Engage in the realisation and presentation of design concepts within a new context |
Course intended learning outcomes (CILOs)
This subject also contributes to the following Course Intended Learning Outcomes:
- Ability to take autonomous responsibility for actions and decisions (A.1)
- Ability to recognise cultural diversity, including Indigenous, gender and multicultural perspectives (A.3)
- Ability to communicate ideas effectively, including oral, written, visual, analogue and digital presentations (2D and 3D) (C.2)
- Ability to apply and utilise appropriate communication techniques, knowledge and understanding to enable practical applications in spatial design (P.1)
- Ability to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of interior and spatial design precedent and to contextualise one's work within the extended discipline (R.3)
- Ability to reflect on, challenge and interrogate theoretical speculation (R.4)
Teaching and learning strategies
Students will explore international practice via travel, research and studio work.
Students will document and research through field work in Bogota, Colombia.
This subject contributes to student learning as follows:
1. To expand the complexity of design and research practice through a set of specific strategies.
2. To intensify theoretical speculation through texts, lectures, and workshops.
3. To explore configurations between context, space, objects, and bodies.
4. To demonstrate competency in advanced and engaging communication methods.
Content (topics)
This subject includes the following issues and topics:
1. Research and documentation practices;
2. Urban and interior theory and analysis;
3. Exploration through mapping;
4. Project resolution, exhibition, and presentation.
Assessment
Assessment task 1: Map
| Intent: | A map that conceptualises, explores, and visualises the "urban interior". | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 2, 4 and 5 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.): A.3, C.2, P.1 and R.4 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 50% | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria: | Rigorous visual analysis and verbal presentation of the field research. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 2: Documentation
| Intent: | Students are to record and document the final map and submit an archive of all the indlividual map parts and pertinent field work. | ||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 4 and 5 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.): P.1 and R.3 | ||||||||||||
| Type: | Project | ||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Group, individually assessed | ||||||||||||
| Weight: | 25% | ||||||||||||
| Criteria: | Rigorous document archive composed of research photographs and sketches with all neccessary referencing for sourced materials. | ||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Assessment task 3: Reflection
| Intent: | 500 word reflection and project statement that articulates the map's concept and findings and how it visualises and explores the "urban interior" in relation to contextual research. | ||||||||||||||||
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| Objective(s): | This task addresses the following subject learning objectives: 1, 3 and 5 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.): A.1, R.3 and R.4 | ||||||||||||||||
| Type: | Reflection | ||||||||||||||||
| Groupwork: | Individual | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 25% | ||||||||||||||||
| Criteria: | Rigorous written synthesis of research and commentary on its translation into a visual document for exhibition. | ||||||||||||||||
| Criteria linkages: |
SLOs: subject learning objectives CILOs: course intended learning outcomes |
Minimum requirements
- The Faculty of DAB expects students to attend 80% of all classes for all enrolled subjects. Achievement of the subject's aims is difficult if classes are not attended. Where assessment tasks are to be presented personally in class, attendance is mandatory.
- Pursuant to UTS rule 2.5.1 students who do not satisfy attendance requirements may be refused permission by the Responsible Academic Officer to be considered for assessment for this subject.
- Completion of all assessments.
- Students electing to undertake this subject should be aware that they are required to take part in the mandatory international travel component which incurs additional costs. If this is not possible, an alternative subject should be selected.
Required texts