Units
Landscape Design 3
Unit code: DLB310
Contact hours: 4 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
This unit introduces you to the theory behind spatial design and place-making. It also introduces design research and inquiry methods. In particular, it encourages you to examine the ways that people use, perceive and value places and environments. The unit teaches you to explore design research methodologies, and apply design skills to place-making.
Availability
| Semester | Available |
|---|---|
| 2013 Semester 1 | Yes |
Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013
Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.
Rationale
This second year unit introduces a range of theories, principles and approaches to contemporary Placemaking through critically examining how people perceive and respond to their environment, both individually and collectively. These investigations and design propositions develop your research and design communication skills and will provide an intellectually rigorous foundation for the rest of the course, and for later professional practice.
Aims
The aim of this unit is to develop your ability to research and apply design theory in the creation of places for people, through a sound understanding of the key physical, psychological and cultural theories that underpin our knowledge of the reciprocal relationship between people and their environments. It also provides the opportunity to improve your design communication skills.
Objectives
On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- demonstrate at an intermediate level, the ability to effectively represent your design outcomes and processes through modelled, written, graphic and oral means.
- demonstrate at an introductory level, your understanding of Place Theory and Environmental Psychology.
- demonstrate at an intermediate level, effective critical thinking and analytical processes concerning the interpretation of space and place.
- demonstrate at an introductory level, creative design processes and outcomes that integrate the specified theoretical frameworks of Place and Psychology.
- demonstrate the appropriate application of ethical conduct, collaboration, independent self-management and accountability.
Content
Under the general principles and practices of Placemaking, the key theoretic content areas are:
1. Place Theory which introduces a range of principles and theories about Peoples cultural, social and emotional relationship to place which also includes Urban Form, Urban Character analysis and Cultural Landscape Theory.
2. Environmental Psychology Theory introduces the principles and theories of human users and their interrelationships with place and space.
Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Teaching Mode:
4 hours per week
Lecture: 1 hour per week
Studio: 3 hours per week
Learning Approaches:
Learning and teaching approaches will cover the following:
- Lecture: The core principles and theory for the subject.
- Studio tutorial sessions and site visits will be the focus for applying and extending the theoretical component and further developing creative design skills through practical projects.
- Individual learning through readings, research, and the design projects.
- Group based learning through the participation and completion of tutorial class activies and the design projects.
Assessment
Assessment will be based on two design projects developed from your analysis of an existing place and its users as detailed in the project briefs.
LATE ASSIGNMENTS
An assignment submitted after the due date without an approved extension will not be marked. If you are unable to complete your assignment on time, you should submit on time whatever work you have done.
Faculty Assessment Information
To access the Creative Industries Faculty Assessment Information please refer to the Blackboard site for this unit.Formative oral feedback will be given in studio presentations of work in progress. Written feedback will be provided on each of the defined components of the design project and will include detailed feedback on relevant standards based criterion referenced evaluation sheets issued with the design project.
Assessment name:
Design
Description:
Project 1 is a Place Design intervention, developed from your analysis of an existing place and its users, detailed in the Project Brief.
Group 15% Individual 25%
Relates to objectives:
1, 2, 3 and 5
Weight:
40%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Group with Individual Component
Due date:
Mid-Semester
Assessment name:
Design
Description:
Project 2 is a Place Design intervention, developed from your analysis of a second place and its users, detailed in the Project Brief.
Group 20% Individual 40%
Relates to objectives:
1, 2, 4 and 5
Weight:
60%
Internal or external:
Internal
Group or individual:
Group with Individual Component
Due date:
End of Semester
Academic Honesty
QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.
A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.
Resource materials
There are no required texts for this unit.
The following texts are recommended but not limited to the following readings:
Environmental Psychology
Gifford, Robert (1997). Environmental Psychology: Principles and Practice. 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon.
Kaplan, S & Kaplan, R (1982). Humanscape: Environments for People. Ann Arbor, Mich: Ulrich's Books.
Zeisel, John (2006). Inquiry by design: environment/behaviour/neuroscience in architecture, interiors, landscape, and planning. New York: W.W. Norton & Company
Place-making
Bacon, E (1974). Design of Cities. London: Thames & Hudson.entley, Ian etal (1985). Responsive Environments: a manual for designers. London: Architectural Press.
Carmona, Matthew et al (eds)(2003). Public Places, Urban Spaces. London: Architectural Press.
Cullen, G (1976). The Concise Townscape. London: Architectural Press.
Low, Setha & Lawrence-Zuniga, Denise (2003). The Anthropology of Space and Place: Locating Culture. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Lynch, K (1960). The Image of the City. Cambridge: MIT Press.
Rapoport, Amos (2005). Culture, architecture, and design. Chicago: Locke Science Pub. Co.
Swaffield, Simon (ed)(2002). Theory in Landscape Architecture: a reader. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Land Art
Udo, Weilacher (1999). Between Landscape Architecture and Land Art. Boston: Birkhauser.
Other resource materials will be made available as appropriate through the unit Blackboard site at http://blackboard.qut.edu.au, through the Library or at the QUT GP Bookshop.
Additional Costs
Consumable costs, typical of the preparation and presentation of project work, are to be expected expected and for broad budgeting purposes expect about $150 to $300. This can include printing of larger poster style formats. Allowance for travel costs and incidentals should be made in the event of a field trip.
Risk assessment statement
In this unit, you will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. The unit will require you to partake in field trips, both of a self-guided nature and those overseen by staff at a more remote location. A risk assessment for the former trips has identified only low impact risks. A risk assessment will be conducted prior to a more remote field trip. You will be provided with relevant safely guidelines prior to any field trip. You will be required to obey all safety guidelines and directions while attending field trips.
Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.
Last modified: 13-Feb-2013
