Designing Diversity: Architecture and Urbanism in a Multicultural Context - ARCH7216
Faculty: Built Environment
School: Built Environment
Course Outline: Built Environment
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 3
CSS Contribution Charge: 2 (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
The course will provide students with the skills to interpret relationships between urban spaces and specific cultural practices and patterns of habitation. Sydney provides the primary site for student projects; its multicultural character offers a rich context for interrogating the relationship between architecture and culture. The course considers a number of distinct types of spaces, such as migrant and minority groups’ religious and community spaces, for their spatial representation of beliefs and practices. Diverse community and public spaces as well as places of consumption will be studied for their capacity to engage with popular and daily aspects of culture as well as for their ability to negotiate the representation of dominant and marginal groups.