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The work presented here is from Communications 03, the final

of the core communications courses undertaken by students

in their undergraduate degree. The aim of this course is to

engage with current landscape architecture discourse whilst

drawing on a wide range of sources that may form our ownindividual creative practices. These may include art, film,

fashion, other design disciplines, popular culture, social

science and the scientific.

Within this course students develop an understanding of

their own practices both retrospectively and projectively by

generating a synthesis between work undertaken within and

outside the institution and source material. This forms a series

of archives/lexicons that communicate students individual

ambitions, questions and interests.

The intent of this course is to enable students to refine and

redefine their design practice expanding possibilities of

material and immaterial ideas. Over the semester students

examine and critique their own generative and explorative

methodologies and further develop and frame communication

skills.

Course leader:

Saskia Schut

Tutors:

Saskia Schut

Kate Church


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Parallel Encyclopedia

Construct your own encyclopaedia, this is to be an image based work. If an

encyclopaedia is a literary work giving information on all branches of knowledge or

of one subject, usually in alphabetic order how can yours propose a different view

of knowledge, your own parallel view, ordered according to associations rather than

through singular entities? Drawing on images from a range of disciplines use the modeof the encyclopaedia to curate, frame and begin to position your own design practice.

Consider how you can use the conventions of the book (including cover, contents,

binding and layout) to help situate the content of your parallel encyclopedia


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Off The Roof

To further discover how you like to make and further develop/define what your design

practice is about this assignment asks you to take one of your designs undertaken

through a studio and explode it out, testing its formal, material and functional

possibilities... what is it? what more can it be? how else could it function? is it rich with

possibilities? how does it work spatially? formally? compositionally?

Consider the work you have made in the visual Parallel Encyclopedia, the text and the

drawings and models and how these suggest material and spatial possibilities.


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Content

Compile a document and design a mini exhibition that explicitly explores and

demonstrates your design position, your ambitions, questions, and design processes

through a combination of writing, drawings, models and reference images (parallel

encyclopedia and other design works). This is your argument, your manifesto. To

complete this you will need to consider how the document will be read and how it can

communicate your ideas from your position without you verbally explaining it.


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Course Details

Title: Communications 03

Tutors: Saskia Schut + Kate Church

Date: Semester 2, 2010

This and other documented examples of design studios run

as part of the RMIT University Architecture program can

be found on issuu.com

work by:

Sarah Hicks

Alistair De Fegley

Simon Meade

Yan Luo

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