Units
Landscape Design 6
Unit code: DLB710
Contact hours: 4 per week
Credit points: 12
Information about fees and unit costs
This design unit explores contemporary theories and practices of landscape design and their application through problem-based learning in a real world community project. Concepts and theories including landscape urbanism, landscape strategy, and new theories and practices associated with water landscapes will be investigated and applied through the lens of resilience theory. Skills in strategic planning and detailed design at a large and complex scale will be developed and applied in a selected real world landscape from the urban, peri-urban and rural landscape spectrum.
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 unit is an important consolidation and expansion of the landscape design theories and skills learnt in your course to date. It asks you to step up to a higher level of analytical, critical, creative and practical understanding, reflection and application commensurate with fourth year professional level landscape architectural study. DLB710 requires you to undertake an advanced conceptual and schematic design project developed through a series of sequenced exercises and presentation of a final design for the project, with emphasis on theoretical positioning, design process and rigorous design development.
Aims
The aim of this unit is to further develop the knowledge and skills accumulated throughout your degree to assist you to step up to the level of professional thinking and practice in landscape architecture. It expands your theoretical knowledge, analytical, critical, creative and design skills through an intensification of the complexity and scope of landscape problems addressed.
Objectives
On completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- Demonstrate at an advanced level your understanding of landscape design theories, processes and practice.
- Demonstrate at an advanced level, the ability to effectively represent your design and processes through modelled, graphic, written and oral means..
- Demonstrate at an advanced level, effective critical thinking and analytical processes to interpret problems.
- Demonstrate at an advanced level, creative problem solving to formulate innovative design propositions to specific briefs.
- Demonstrate at an advanced level, where and when appropriate, ethical conduct, collaboration and independent self-management and accountability.
Content
In this unit you will explore landscape design theories in the areas of landscape architecture, landscape urbanism, architecture and landscape ecology. You will apply your understanding of these theories and their application to the analysis of and design of highly resolved propositions.
In responding to the specificity of a selected site, you will develop the specific theoretical thinking and strategic design, and will also demonstrate advanced level design skills in the generation of detailed design communication and presentation techniques commensurate with professional-level landscape architectural practice.
The topics included in this unit include the study and the design experiment of landscape types, topos and scales.Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Teaching Mode:
Hours per week: 8 hours per week for 6 weeks plus 4 hours per week for one week.
Lecture/Studio sessions combined.
Pin-Ups: WEEKLY and regular group or individual presentation of work in progress will involve lecturer and peer review, and lecturer feedback.
Desk Critiques: Regular one on one critiques will provide ongoing advice on projects.
Presentations: Three work in progress reviews will be assessed in studio to a jury of the lecturer and guest design critics. The final works will be presented to an invited jury in addition to a publication designed to communicate the design thinking to a wider audience. All of these approaches develop sophisticated design skills in a collaborative professional environement.
Content will be supported by online resources but for effective skills development weekly participation in class exercises is essential. Additional work outside studio time will also be required in line with QUT guidelines.
You will be required to complete at least a minimum of 2 hours of work for this unit in your own time for every hour of contact time: i.e. 16 hours per week for 7 weeks.
Learning approaches will cover the following:
Problem-based learning through a series of design exercises and a design project to collectively address.
Individual learning through the completion of designated components of the design project.
Reflection through the use of peer-to-peer critique in the studio sessions.
Students are expected to attend studio with:
Any pre-requisite materials as set on Blackboard or in the lecture material.
Suficient resources to engage in creative/design processes.
Studio engagement required of students:
Independent learning is part of studio feedback.
Studio feedback and the work of other students is part of the unit feedback mechanism.
Weekly studio presentations and critiques are required as a continual part of the unit.
Prior units knowledge is to be applied in the unit.
Schedule:
The schedule may change up to and including in studio if circumstances are deemed necessary by the lecturer, tutor or QUT.
Site visit: You will need to participate in one or more self-guided field trips to your project site within Brisbane.Assessment
Assessment will be based on a series of design projects and each project will address specific theoretical and design skills developed through the studio. These skills are to be additive over the semester. Summative assessment will be based on project design outputs, and will include detailed feedback using standards-based criterion-referenced evaluation.
It includes a site appraisal, your individual design strategic design developed in detail. These are assessed for demonstration of achievement against three main criteria:
- understanding of the knowledge, ideas skills and processes underpinning the assignment;
- application of this understanding to a particular circumstance, and;
- your expression of this understanding and application in graphic, written and verbal forms.
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.Feedback will be given through regular critiques and pin-ups in class with lecturer and/or guest design critics, one and one guest critiques.
Students are also expected to actively participate in the studio environment and gain feedback from the body of work produced across the studio. In addition, students are to undertake independent research to gain an insight in to both the qaulity of work and processes required within the studio.Assessment name: Design
Description: Research and design proposition submitted as a presentation and a journal chapter for a coordinated publication
Relates to objectives: All
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 2
Assessment name: Design
Description: Research and design proposition submitted as a presentation and a journal chapter for a coordinated publication.
Relates to objectives: All
Weight: 30%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 4
Assessment name: Design
Description: Research and design proposition submitted as a presentation and a journal chapter for a coordinated publicationpresent
Relates to objectives: All
Weight: 40%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 7
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
A list of set readings for this unit will be provided in week 1
Other resource materials will be made available as appropriate through the unit online Blackboard site, QUT/GP Library or at the QUT GP Bookshop.
Additional Costs
Consumable costs, typical of the preparation and presentation of project work, are to be expected. Costs of field work within Brisbane will be your responsibility.Risk assessment statement
In this unit you will undertake lectures and tutorials in the traditional classrooms and lecture theatres. As such, there are no extraordinary workplace health and safety issues associated with these components of the unit. The unit will require you to undertake field work. A risk assessment for these trips has identified only low impact risks. You will be provided with relevant safely guidelines prior. You will be required to obey all safety guidelines and directions while working in the field.
The School's occupational health and safety policies and procedures will apply to all studio sessions.
The unit will may require you to partake in a supervised field trip, either in or around Brisbane. A risk assessment for the trip has identified only low impact risks. You will be provided with relevant safely guidelines and you'll be required to obey all safety guidelines and directions while attending. Failure to do so may result in the awarding of a failing grade for the unit.
J-Block Workshop inductions
J-Block Workshop inductions
Any use of the workshop will require a student to have successfully completed both the QUT and J-Block Workshop inductions and have received the appropriate sticker. These will allow you access to the workshop only. They do not allow operation of the majority of tools and equipment in the workshop
If both inductions have been completed, the next level of workshop access requires the following:- Present the drawings/sketches of the sketch design to a J-Block staff member for determination of equipment that may be required before using any equipment in the workshop. (NOTE: the student must have sketches prior to any meeting with the workshop staff)
- Attend and complete any equipment inductions as required by the J-Block staff (this may require a booking for a session on anther day and students should be prepared with sufficient time to allow for scheduling of any sessions). Delays due to workshop induction scheduling are not a grounds for extension
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: 05-Oct-2012
- Present the drawings/sketches of the sketch design to a J-Block staff member for determination of equipment that may be required before using any equipment in the workshop. (NOTE: the student must have sketches prior to any meeting with the workshop staff)
