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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Re-Enchanting the City: Designing the Human Habitat
UNSW Sydney
The course introduced the interdisciplinary nature of city making. Through the urban project of Central Park Sydney, it explored the professions of urban design, architecture, planning, construction management, sustainable development, industrial design, landscape and interior architecture.
6 weeks, 4 hours per week
Oya Demirbilek
Associate Professor, Associate Dean (Education), Built Environment
The University of New South Wales
Elizabeth Farrelly
Associate Professor (Practice), Built Environment
The University of New South Wales
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Learning outcomes
- Identify and explain the roles and interaction of different professions within the built environment.
- Analyse and evaluate the complexities of design and development processes in the urban context.
- Reflect on the outcomes, successes and weaknesses of large scale urban development projects.
- Formulate ideas on how hyper-dense cities of the future can be green, liveable and poetic.
Syllabus
- The professions which makeup the built environment, in the context of the urban case study, Central Park, Sydney.
- Hyperdensity and considerations of affordability, open space, public health and joy.
- The built environment in the planning process, including how planning works in relation to developments on the ground, the urban regeneration process from concept to masterplan, as well as influences from developers, community, and politics.
- The nature of urban design and architecture, exploring design diversity and the role of ‘starchitects’ in city making.
- Heritage architecture and adaptive reuse.
- Strategies and approaches to greening our cities, including renaturing cities, water recycling, energy production and sustainability.
- Technology in cites and the contribution of industrial design.
- The design of interiors looking at the conceptual and spatial connections of inside and out.
- The nature of enchantment in city-making and how each of the built environment professions contribute.
Issued on 18th October 2017
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