SRP761 - Biophilic Futures
Unit details
| Year: | 2024 unit information |
|---|---|
| Enrolment modes: | Next offered 2025 pending approval: Trimester 2: Waterfront (Geelong) |
| Credit point(s): | 1 |
| EFTSL value: | 0.125 |
| Unit Chair: | Trimester 2: Akari Nakai Kidd |
| Prerequisite: | Students enrolled in D306 must have passed 24 credit points of study at levels 1, 2 & 3 |
| Corequisite: | Nil |
| Incompatible with: | Nil |
| Typical study commitment: | Students will on average spend 150 hours over the trimester 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: | 6 x 1 day lectures/seminars (6 hours per day). |
Content
Biophilic design and biophilic urbanism practiced with the intent of creating built and natural settings that enhance the health and wellbeing of both the human and 'more-than-human' natural environment, is increasingly becoming a tenet of built environment design internationally. This unit explores the history, theory and contemporary practice of biophilic design, biophilic urbanism and biophilic cities in context of the design and planning of the built environment. SRP761 Biophilic Futures offer insights into new projects, technologies, methods, and approaches that aims to achieve sustainable, regenerative, and health and wellbeing outcomes at planetary, regional, metropolitan, local and site specific building scales.
| ULO | These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: | Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes |
|---|---|---|
| ULO1 | Comprehend and assuredly describe key definitions principles, theory and exemplars of contemporary biophilic design and biophilic urbanism practice with an emphasis upon the hypothesis of biophilia. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO2 | Critique and distinguish between rhetoric and practice reality in proposition, and design arguments for biophilic design and biophilic urbanism interventions in the built environment. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO4: Critical thinking GLO7: Teamwork |
| ULO3 | Appraise the merit of a design proposition in addressing and achieving biophilic design and biophilic urbanism outcomes. | GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO4 | Apply the theoretical concepts of biophilic design and biophilic urbanism and propose an biophilic-rich design proposition for a real place, whilst recognising its assumptions and constraints. | GLO3: Digital literacy GLO4: Critical thinking GLO5: Problem solving |
| ULO5 | Position this knowledge of biophilic design and biophilic urbanism in the professional practice of designing urban environments, habitats and places, and understand the opportunities it may offer in enriching design and regenerative and health and wellbeing outcomes compared at regional, metropolitan, local and site-specific building scales. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO8: Global citizenship |
| ULO6 | Comprehend hypothesize biophilic futures, and fluently discuss the position of biophilic design and biophilic urbanism theory and practice in the context of key international charters and reports as well as the support of global citizenship considering the potential of a new worldview of environmental stewardship. | GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities GLO2: Communication GLO6: Self-management GLO8: Global citizenship |
Assessment
| Assessment Description | Student output | Grading and weighting (% total mark for unit) | Indicative due week |
|---|---|---|---|
| Assessment 1 Research essay | Illustrated essay (1500 to 2000 words maximum) excluding any bibliography and appendix | 15% | Week 5 |
| Assessment 2 Critique essay | Critical illustrated essay (2000 words maximum) excluding any bibliography and appendix | 25% | Week 9 |
| Assessment 3 Planning/design proposal | Illustrative essay (A4 20-page maximum: 3000 to 5000 words maximum, including figures and tables) excluding any bibliography and appendix | 45% | Week 12 |
| Assessment 4 Oral presentation | Narrated 5-minute PowerPoint presentation or film/video | 15% | End-of-Unit Assessment period |
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: SRP761. 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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