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Working with an individual thesis adviser, students prepare a design proposal addressing an urban issue or site of personal interest. Students produce a paper of approximately 10,000 words which offers a detailed specification of the selected topic and its significance, explicates the theoretical position from which it is addressed, and presents a critical evaluation of the design proposal and its theoretical basis. The products of the Urban Design Thesis are expected to demonstrate a synthesis of the knowledge areas and skills covered in the course, including development and execution of an appropriate design process, formal exploration and evaluation of design alternatives, design development of an optimal approach, and preparation of implementation strategies and design controls.
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Students prepare an urban design proposal, usually for a mixed-use development, on a relatively clean-slate site in a strong physical context, analogous to the type of assignment that might be offered by a redevelopment authority or private developer. Technical competencies developed in the context of this exercise include areas such as ecological design, market analysis, traffic planning, infrastructure improvement, public art and place-making, phasing strategies and design controls. Where appropriate, current local projects are selected for the studio so that students have the opportunity to work directly with developers and contribute to topical design debates.
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This studio focuses on identifying issues, resolving conflicting interests and developing effective improvement strategies, in exercises analogous to the kinds of assignments that might be issued by a government planning agency. Projects typically involve redevelopment or revitalisation of an existing urban neighbourhood or district, rather than a defined urban site, with a focus on diagnosis of problems and opportunities, community engagement, protection of natural and historic resources, public development strategies and creating incentives for private investment. Studio exercises are selected to address areas under investigation by a local municipality or department of state government, providing an opportunity to work directly with affected communities and planning authorities.
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This is an introductory studio for students entering the Urban Design Program with limited or no design experience. It provides an orientation to design thinking and familiarity with the ways design ideas are communicated. Through a series of simple design exercises, students are introduced to analytical techniques, the formulation of design concepts, and the graphic communication of design ideas, including the conventions of cartography, conceptual diagramming, freehand drawing and the use of various computer programs such as AutoCAD, Illustrator, Photoshop and GIS.
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Major urban design movements of the recent past are dissected through the writings of their proponents and analysis of practical applications. Current urban design ideologies are critically examined to expose the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary urban design theory and provide a foundation for rigorous evaluation of design proposals advanced by practising professionals, as well as the design propositions developed by students in the studio.
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This unit covers an extensive reading list of the classical and contemporary literature of urban design, providing a broad orientation to the central authors and concepts of the field. Students read at least one text a week and discuss the content and relevance to current issues in the local context in a weekly seminar.
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From a general overview of the city through history, this unit explores the changing impacts of key factors that have shaped urban form including, for example, the environment and our attitudes to it, transportation technology, building practices, economics, politics, culture and the arts. By tracing the influence of different factors through history, the unit stimulates students to speculate on the challenges of our swiftly changing world and the types of design responses required to meet them.
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Invited guests present detailed histories of key local and out-of-town urban design projects, providing insights into the hidden factors that influenced the ultimate form of the built product, and stimulating debate of critical design and implementation decisions. Through these presentations, students are exposed to a wide range of urban design situations, to the unexpected deviations that routinely modify an urban design process, and to the various techniques used to resolve these issues.
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The Master's Thesis in Urban Design A is for students enrolled in the Master of Urban Design (by thesis and coursework) degree. Students undertake independent research in and apply principles of urban design at an advanced level, considering solutions to complex urban design issues and demonstrating an ability to critique urban design propositions.
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The Master's Thesis in Urban Design B is for students enrolled in the Master of Urban Design (by thesis and coursework) degree. Students undertake independent research in and apply principles of urban design at an advanced level, considering solutions to complex urban design issues and demonstrating an ability to critique urban design propositions.
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This unit focuses on key examples of art, architecture and landscape from such movements as the Italian Renaissance, Mannerism, the Baroque, Romanticism and Modernism to chart how major shifts in the social role of Western art, architecture and landscape inform contemporary practice and theory.
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This unit explores drawing as a process central to a number of fields of study. A series of lectures, tutorials and practical sessions introduces a rationale for inventive and conventional strategies for drawing and positions these techniques within an historical context from cave painting to the present. It encourages lateral thinking through material investigation and explores many different responses to vision and expression. The intersection between drawing, writing, mapping, cartooning and storytelling is considered.
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This unit introduces the basic principles and practices of studio art in a range of two-dimensional media. Students explore basic technical and conceptual parameters of project-based art practice, and develop basic techniques and skills related to the disciplines of drawing, painting, printmaking and other two-dimensional modes of representation and recording.
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This unit presents a consolidation of basic principles and practices of studio art practice across a range of two-dimensional media. Students explore basic technical and conceptual parameters of project-based art practice, and consolidate general techniques and skills related to the disciplines of drawing, printmaking and other two-dimensional modes of representation, articulation and recording.
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Students explore basic technical and conceptual parameters of project-based electronic art investigation. Within this unit students form a basic understanding of electronic media construction and develop their skills through a series of workshop-based projects in order to explore fundamental relationships of time-based media.
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Students explore the methods and parameters associated with digital image and sound production and consolidate an understanding of time-based relationships. Within this unit students develop work that examines established frameworks of narrative construction, time-based experimentation and the expressive forms relating to the communication of ideas within digital film production.
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This unit provides an in-depth investigation of the major modernist movement of the twentieth century. It charts how Braque and Picasso challenged the passivity of Impressionism and the naivety of Primitivism with a new fragmentary style responsive to the disorientations of industrial modernity and mass consumerism. It then charts the transformations of Analytic and Synthetic Cubism after 1914 into other French and European art movements until its eventual appropriations in Asia, Africa and the Americas.
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This unit examines the aesthetic means that artists of European origin used to forge a sense of place, identity and nation. Topics include the role of art in the early period of exploration; the struggle to develop a local identity in the lead up to Federation; the effects of a growing nationalism after World War I on artists; the influence of modernist art in the mid twentieth century and the internationalism which followed World War II; and recent contested identities of postcolonial and global consciousness when the idea of a national art may no longer be useful. Consistent themes throughout the unit are the role of landscape in Australian art, the effects of isolation and colonialism, and the developments of indigenous art and their importance in the history of Australian art.
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This unit provides students with knowledge of how digital media treats the natural world, its assumed antithesis; how it is incorporated, represented and rejected and the contradictions therein. It focuses on a diversity of artistic practices including installation, responsive environments, artificial life, gaming and mixed realities. It explores the intersections of digital and physical realities in materials, interfaces and environments. In addition, the question of digital culture as social ecology, alongside broader questions of technoscience versus environmentalism, biocentrism versus anthropocentrism, e-pollution and contemporary nature/culture debates occupy the field of enquiry.
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This unit provides a history of the escalating contribution of technoscientific paradigms in the expanded field of contemporary art. It examines the innate ambivalence within the convergence of scientific, technological and artistic modes. The unit traces the spectrum of futuristic and utopian mythologies, and the general anxiety, scepticism and cynicism that permeated twentieth-century thinking on science and technology. It also provides students with the key concepts that surface from the art, science and technology symbiosis. The unit examines, through new media artworks, how concepts function and generate meaning within art and cultural discourse. Crucial concepts include interactivity, immersion, telepresence, virtuality, non-linearity, multiplicity and generative aesthetics.
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This unit demonstrates how a new conception of art arose in the seventeenth-century, southern European courts and academies of Divine Right Catholic monarchies in reaction to the rise of modern science, the mercantile classes and the iconoclastic art of the northern Reformation. It focuses on major works by Michelangelo, El Greco, Tintoretto, Caravaggio, Palladio, Bernini, Borromini, Claude, Poussin, Velazquez and Rubens.
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