Travelling Studio A (Sweden)

This subject is not offered in 2013.

240 hours

Admission to a degree in the Melbourne School of Design.

For the purposes of considering request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Cwth 2005), and Student Support and Engagement Policy, academic requirements for this subject are articulated in the Subject Overview, Learning Outcomes, Assessment and Generic Skills sections of this entry.

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The studio is a practical course run jointly with the Department of Conservation, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The course brings together a range of skills and ideas at play in the field of architectural conservation internationally. The studio recognises that conservation is a professional practice where history of the built environment and buildings, conservation of heritage property and craftmanship are closely interrelated. The main focus of the studio is understanding building types, structural changes and building techniques. Through documentation, historical research and analysis of selected buildings, the studio creates projects. The studio seeks to demonstrate how, through careful evaluation of structural problems, conservation intervention can safeguard architectural values. The studio focuses on wooden architecture in need of comprehensive conservation effort. Students work in consultation with local conservators to research and analyse the selected buildings, define major problems and propose conservation plans, strategies and actions.

• To provide students with an experience in international collaboration.
• To encourage students to identify and engage critically with specific cultural practices, industrial contexts and socio-technical traditions.
• To stimulate systematic/creative thinking and problem solving within students through their experiences of how local issues govern planning, design and construction processes in a particular location.

• Class participation (10%)
• Seminar presentation equivalent to 3000 words due two weeks before field trip (30%)
• Design proposals, projects and workshop exercises equivalent to at least 7000 words (60%)

Assessment and submissions will be made progressively after return from the field trip.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

• Interdisciplinary teamwork.
• Understanding and navigating social and cultural difference.
• Knowledge transfer.
• Organisational collaboration.
• Managing risk.