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ARCH11-110: Designing for Sustainable Futures

Description

This subject examines sustainable futures through a Country-centred approach to caring for the health and well-being of our environment. Students will develop an understanding of Australian Aboriginal people's history, culture, practice and knowledge in caring for our environments. Through a decolonised lens, we will explore our contemporary place and position amongst a complex web of ecological systems through the First Nation worldview. Building on this worldview, students will be introduced to mapping analysis techniques using graphic software to produce diagrams and maps to synthesise and extract connections with Country. The subject will introduce design strategies and environmental practices based on circular design thinking at an urban and neighbourhood scale to explore the co-existing relationships between the natural and built environment. A particular area of focus is on the analysis of environmental practice and how we can address Climate Change by understanding how to care for the health and well-being of Country.

Subject details

Type: Undergraduate Subject
Code: ARCH11-110
EFTSL: 0.125
Faculty: Faculty of Society and Design
Semesters offered:
  • May 2024 [Standard Offering]
Credit: 10
Study areas:
  • Architecture
Subject fees:
  • Commencing in 2024: $4,260.00
  • Commencing in 2025: $4,460.00
  • Commencing in 2024: $5,730.00
  • Commencing in 2025: $5,990.00

Learning outcomes

  1. Demonstrate an awareness of Indigenous history and cultural context in Australia.
  2. Demonstrate an awareness and understanding of environmental, social and cultural challenges through Indigenous knowledge.
  3. Demonstrate holistic thinking between ecological systems and design approaches through an aspiration to care for Country.
  4. Demonstrate understanding and application of design strategies and environmental practice based on circular design thinking at an urban and neighbourhood scale through graphical means.
  5. Display analysis skills through case study and reflective writing in a culturally respectful and appropriate way.

Enrolment requirements

Requisites:

Nil

Restrictions:

Anti-requisites:

Subject dates

  • Standard Offering
    Enrolment opens: 17/03/2024
    Semester start: 13/05/2024
    Subject start: 13/05/2024
    Cancellation 1: 27/05/2024
    Cancellation 2: 03/06/2024
    Last enrolment: 26/05/2024
    Withdraw - Financial: 08/06/2024
    Withdraw - Academic: 29/06/2024
    Teaching census: 07/06/2024
Standard Offering
Enrolment opens: 17/03/2024
Semester start: 13/05/2024
Subject start: 13/05/2024
Cancellation 1: 27/05/2024
Cancellation 2: 03/06/2024
Last enrolment: 26/05/2024
Withdraw - Financial: 08/06/2024
Withdraw - Academic: 29/06/2024
Teaching census: 07/06/2024