SRA743 - Critical Futures
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Trimester 2: Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Mirjana Lozanovska |
| Prerequisite: | SRD753, SRT751 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit. This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site. |
| Educator-facilitated (scheduled) learning activities - on-campus unit enrolment: | 1 x 2 hour lecture per week (weeks 1-5, 10,11), 1 x 1 hour lecture per week, (weeks 6-9) |
Content
The unit examines the critical role of architecture in the 21st century with the aim to gain understanding of the history and theory of architecture, learning about the past in order to understand architecture’s futures. The unit structure is a set of themes of critical contemporary concern including - accelerated urbanism, a global history of architecture (western and non-western), traditional/reconstructed place, histories of environments and ecologies, and image. Each theme examines historical trajectories in the 20th Century as foundation, developing informed perspectives on the profound changing conditions of society.
Core to the unit is how architecture participates in contemporary societal challenges informed by understanding its historical trajectories. The unit engages with advanced research methodologies in the application of ‘critical tools’ – reading, writing and analysis – in order to develop intellectually complex and ethical positions in relation to the production of architecture and environments in a global world.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Identify an appropriate framework and method for the analysis of critical issues in architecture in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO2 | Locate, evaluate and synthesise relevant information from current and scholarly literature sources. | GLO2: Communication |
| ULO3 | Collaborate with others to communicate perspectives about current literature, and architectural and urban projects to an audience of their peers. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities |
| ULO4 | Justify an ethical position based upon the research of global and diverse contemporary architectural projects. | GLO6: Self-management |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 Exercises and structured bibliography | Weekly collaborative summary report | 40% | Weekly |
| Assessment 2 Critical essay | 3500-4000 word essay | 60% | Week 12 |
The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.
Learning Resource
The texts and reading list for the unit can be found on the University Library via the link below: SRA743 Note: Select the relevant trimester reading list. Please note that a future teaching period's reading list may not be available until a month prior to the start of that teaching period so you may wish to use the relevant trimester's prior year reading list as a guide only.
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