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Interior Design Studio 6 - Community
Undergraduate | CUR-BIA250 | 2018
Course information for 2018 intake
View information for 2019 course intakeHead out into the field and get to grips with a community project. Consider social and cultural constructs that will impact your use of space and aesthetics. Challenge yourself to work with peers to develop a community-minded design solution.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Interior Design Studio 6 - Community
About this subject
At completion of this subject students will be able to:
- detect and challenge preconceptions relating to social/cultural groups within a community
- employ appropriate communication and project management skills to navigate consultation with a complex community group
- work collaboratively to research and analyse social and cultural constructs to inform spatial utilisation, planning, aesthetic qualities and experiences
- create a culturally and socially responsive design solution, based on international fieldwork
- develop culturally appropriate ways of working including appropriate use of language, listening skills and communication protocols.
- What is Community Encounters
- Design teams
- Introduction to Project Management Principles
- Client Engagement
- Collating Information
- Concept Development
- Design Development
This subject was previously known as Interior Architecture Community Encounters Studio.
An intensive in situ studio unit involving an international fieldtrip with a very high level of Work Integrated Learning. The studio introduces and explores the processes of project management and interdependent teamwork to enable students to work effectively and collaboratively with each other as well as with an external community group. Students will have the opportunity to research, debate and encounter a range of real life community and cultural situations, including social inequities and issues of social justice, focussing on international perspectives. Students will have the opportunity to work collaboratively and creatively on a spatial design problem provided by the community, the process of which offers a deeper understanding of the complexities of community and culture. This in turn raises students’ awareness of their own communities. Through these processes students develop communication, problem solving skills and the independence essential to enter the senior years of the course.
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- Project Preparation Plan (30%)
- Design Project Presentation (50%)
- Reflection and Evaluation (20%)
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Entry requirements
To enrol in this subject, you must be admitted into a degree.
Prior study
You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:
Additional requirements
- Other requirements -
Access to hardware: webcam, speakers and microphone
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
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