Unraveling Urban Design - COFA0922
Faculty: Faculty of Art & Design
School: School of Art & Design
Course Outline: Download course outline (PDF format)
Campus: Paddington
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 1 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
(Fully Online Postgraduate by Coursework Elective)
Have you ever wanted to know more about the real meaning and role of urban design? This course will share with you its powerful and far-reaching capabilities. Although concerned with the familiar 'public domain', as in squares, boulevards and public art, it is much more than that. Whilst timeless, it always reflects the political, economic and cultural forms of society.
This fully online course, through historic and contemporary visual examples, will introduce you to how urban designers create exciting and integrated built responses to the community's physical, social and environmental demands. You will 'meet' the skilled designers, both past and present, and appreciate how many individual skills are needed to contribute to stunning urban design solutions. You will become increasingly at ease with thinking at different scales and levels of complexity and in balancing the many competing demands.
The class exercises follow directly from the course material and encourage a wide range of expression and media - to suit your personal choice - including writing, graphics, models, film, photography, and quicktime or equal.
The course is specifically designed to introduce you to urban design and extend your analytical, evaluation and creative abilities and for you to enjoy thinking about and designing in the real, complex and dynamic world, and to have an increasingly critical command of, and ability in, this fascinating and most relevant field. At postgraduate level, students will be expected to see and resolve urban design solutions within a framework of Government objectives, policies and regulations as well prevailing economic regimes.
The course aims to attract students worldwide, and across a variety of design disciplines and faculties. Group and individual assignments will cover theoretical and practical components, and the online activities will encourage interdisciplinary discussion and interaction amongst the students.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.
Have you ever wanted to know more about the real meaning and role of urban design? This course will share with you its powerful and far-reaching capabilities. Although concerned with the familiar 'public domain', as in squares, boulevards and public art, it is much more than that. Whilst timeless, it always reflects the political, economic and cultural forms of society.
This fully online course, through historic and contemporary visual examples, will introduce you to how urban designers create exciting and integrated built responses to the community's physical, social and environmental demands. You will 'meet' the skilled designers, both past and present, and appreciate how many individual skills are needed to contribute to stunning urban design solutions. You will become increasingly at ease with thinking at different scales and levels of complexity and in balancing the many competing demands.
The class exercises follow directly from the course material and encourage a wide range of expression and media - to suit your personal choice - including writing, graphics, models, film, photography, and quicktime or equal.
The course is specifically designed to introduce you to urban design and extend your analytical, evaluation and creative abilities and for you to enjoy thinking about and designing in the real, complex and dynamic world, and to have an increasingly critical command of, and ability in, this fascinating and most relevant field. At postgraduate level, students will be expected to see and resolve urban design solutions within a framework of Government objectives, policies and regulations as well prevailing economic regimes.
The course aims to attract students worldwide, and across a variety of design disciplines and faculties. Group and individual assignments will cover theoretical and practical components, and the online activities will encourage interdisciplinary discussion and interaction amongst the students.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Students will receive course website location and log in instructions via their UNSW email account prior to the commencement of the course.
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