DESST 2519 - Design Studio IV

Theme: archive/culture/program. This course comprises a number of independent discipline-based but interrelated studios and enable students to choose their design studio with an architecture, landscape architecture, construction management or urban design focus. These interrelated design studios emphasise design approaches that privilege archival evidence, historical data or design typology as a point of departure. Analysis and interpretation of that material will be used to generate designs with more complex programs that are communicated using appropriate disciplinary conventions with consistent learning outcomes and assessment criteria for each studio group. Students have the opportunity to explore challenging topics including homelessness, humanitarian issues, well-being, adaptive reuse, equity and diversity and more. Students can elect to take this studio as an overseas studio when such opportunities arise.