Representing and Remembering Place (PG)

This subject is not offered in 2016.

170 Hours

Admission into a course at the Melbourne School of Design or approval of the subject coordinator.

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

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 explores the documentation and representation of particular sites in Melbourne and elsewhere. The subject engages with design considerations outside the design studio context. The notion of site and place is explored through a number of theoretical themes and hands-on creative, representational techniques including mapping, photography, film, sound and writing. 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 creative, representational techniques for documenting specific places. The major submission requires a well researched and presented 'Atlas' that evokes the memory of a place of choice. Typically the culmination of the subject is an exhibition.

Objectives of the subject include:

• To develop awareness in context and historical 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 and creativity;
• To allow students creative scope to develop a detailed documentation of one site.

• Atlas progress review and pin-up (Hurdle) due mid-semester;
• Journal of 1500 words (30%) due Week 11;
• Atlas (final) of 3500 words (70%) due Week 11.

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).