India Travelling Studio

This subject is not offered in 2013.

240 hours

Admission to any master's course offered by the Melbourne School of Design or approval from the subject coordinator.

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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This subject investigates the organisation of the construction industry in various country environments, with an emphasis on the strategic selection of construction technologies and methods acording to specific social, economic, legal and technological contexts as well as regional traditions. Consisting of a seminar component and a travel component (which can vary each year depending on the focus provided by the subject coordinator), the subject will expose students to unfamiliar cultures, places and people thus stimulating their ability to reflect critically on the Australian construction environment.

• To observe and record building industry operations in non-Australian contexts and provide an international perspecitve in construction.
• To enable comparisons of construction markets, technologies and processes in different countries and regions.
• To help students understand contingent relationships between construction technologies and national cultures.
• To gauge the impact of cultural drivers within construction.
• To encourage students to identify and engage critically with issues of geographic specificity in construction.

• Class participation (10%)
• Case studies and professional/portfolio reports equivalent to at least 5,000 words after returning from the trip (90%)

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

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