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AWSS2027: Arch and Design Creative Practices
2026 unit information
This elective unit provides opportunities for undergraduate students to learn creative processes by ‘doing’, and to ‘think’ through making. Working with creative practitioners in studio settings, students will select and explore a broad range of traditional and experimental techniques including clay modelling and casting with small-scale constructions in rotating 2 x 6-week-long blocks. Engaging with hands-on processes of making, the unit aims to extend students’ creative proficiency, expand their material and formal appreciation of objects, and develop and refine their knowledge and skills to produce spatial creations. Students will design, plan, and produce a series of inquisitive three-dimensional objects utilising media explored in class, while rigorously investigating their potential aesthetic and conceptual applications.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning
| Study level | Undergraduate |
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| Academic unit | Architecture |
| Credit points | 6 |
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Corequisites:
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None |
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AWSS2010 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. Development and demonstration of skills to produce well-considered three dimensional forms applying hands on ‘making’ techniques
- LO2. Ability to explore and experiment through material-lead processes of making, while generating designs through research, drawing and testing with iterations
- LO3. Think openly, creatively, and critically adopting new ideas and processes exploring the field of contemporary three dimensional creative practices; visual arts, sculpture, spatial practices, design, in relation to architecture
- LO4. Ability to professionally execute and present a through selection of works to demonstrate the understanding of required processes
- LO5. Ability to appropriately select and integrate a range of primary and secondary research sources to develop your own thinking and making practice contextualised through a historic, philosophical, social, ethical or cultural frameworks
- LO6. Ability to document and communicate own creative processes visually and verbally to demonstrate, critically reflect, negotiate and refine idea
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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Semester 2 2026
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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