Representing and Remembering Place (PG)

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2012:

Admission to the Melbourne School of Design or approval of the subject coordinator.

702-574 (ABPL50004) Representing and Remembering Place (UG)

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This subject explores the documentation and representation of particular sites that are related to Design 5 or of the students own choice. The subject is considered highly related to design methodologies, but deals with design considerations outside the design studio context. Sites are explored through a number of themes and representational techniques. These themes are further investigated through the subject reader, lectures and seminar discussions. Equal emphasis is placed on theoretical problems of understanding contemporary contexts, and representational techniques for documenting specific places. The major submission requires a well researched and presented study of a complex site.

Aims of the subject include:

• to develop awareness in context analysis, and encourage positive exchange between deeper understanding of places and design interventions;
• to expose students to varied methodologies of representing, documenting and analysing particular sites through lectures, seminar discussions, reading and project based analysis;
• to allow students creative scope to develop a detailed documentation of one site.

Reports to the equivalent of 5000 words.

None specified

Subject Reader

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• build on critical skills in evaluating key texts in the area of place-making and representation;
• build on technical skills in methods of visual documentation and presentation (for example drawing, photography and mapping).